Silent Witness - news series for 2024 starts tonight - what will our multi tasking pathologists get up to this time.

[IwantToRetire]

I know fron the last series that many think this is a series that should have quietly been taken of air years ago.

But the telly addicts thread last time was so funny that it made it worth watching just to be able to join in the comments.

As our two lead characters have zero chemistry and barely speak, and they rarely do any actual pathology, one can only speculate what even more far fetched adventure they will get up to this series.

Not forgetting each more implausible fashion get up Nikki will be wearing to work each episode.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b007y6k8/silent-witness?seriesId=m001v6nh

I thought that too. Shame as she is naturally gorgeous

@GuinnessBird S2, she played a human trafficker, completely different to goody two shoes Nicky!

I’ve seen EF in the flesh. She is ethereally beautiful- much more stunning in real life. And with the most amazing posture. Made me sit up and I’m definitely her senior in years.

The Lyle clearly makes a fortune, because the police have vast budgets and never bat an eye at having to pay for their entire senior staff dropping everything and spending all their time on a single case, nor do they mind paying them to do absolutely basic stuff like taking DNA samples. They're also happy to pay them to do non-sciency things like sitting in on interviews and searching around for non-forensic evidence. Hence their ability to pay Emilia so well.

They got rid of all the other staff bar those four specifically to keep Nikki in tank tops and big houses. I remember when all this was fields they had silent mortuary technicians working away in the background. Can't afford them now, that money is ringfenced for Nikki's lifestyle.

Is that the end of SW? Shame as it got back to its roots in a way.

I enjoyed the last pair of episodes much more than any in ages. Re the shouty voice upstairs - alcoholism-induced hallucinations? He chucked his whisky down the sink after hearing them…

“Alcoholic hallucinosis is a rare complication of chronic alcohol abuse characterized by predominantlyauditory hallucinations that occur either during or after a period of heavy alcohol consumption.”

I thought that when he was on the phone to Keith he also heard as he said something like "sounds as if you're needed/have to go"?

Didn't Jack or someone say something about trying to get authorisation to extend the placement? Though presumably she would have to go back to college at some point?

I quite enjoyed those two episodes purely on the basis they were so bad they were funny. Starting with the head of the Lyell letting someone have free access to anything and everything in the lab just because she phoned up and claimed to be thinking of offering them a fat Home Office contract, it didn't really ever get more credible. Vintage SW at its most terrible.

Vintage SW at its most terrible.

Well to be picky vintage would be Amanda Burton, and dont think she would have let such sloppiness happen. She would have given one of her stern looks.

But in fact the sillier the series got, the more I went on watching. But think since the Jack Nikki partnership it has been unintentionally comic most of the time.

I missed the ending of Episode 8 - Grrr 😡
What happened please ?
Who killed Htin and Elinor and her senior policeman escort and why ?
Who was Oceanfloor ?
Cornflower was Kazkade woman.
It was hard to follow and your disbelief had to be suspended !

I thought she'd got a job there now. If that was the case then access to work would pay for an interpreter.

So was Kaskade woman Cornflower and Oceanfloor ?

It said on an earlier episode that the interpreter is through Access to Work.

@MarilynBoo I did wonder if I had imagined hearing that. It comes up as a topic in BSL exams but I always avoid as it's complicated 🤣

Why on EARTH did Keith kill Carl at the end?

It didn’t make sense. Apart from the fact he already murdered Russell and thought fuck it, what have I got to lose?

I am not sure why he murdered Russell in the first place though. It would have made more sense if he was the murderer.

That's waking the dead which sadly finished but I preferred. Might dig up (see what I did there) some of the old ones!

Absolutely 😆 whenever they go 'foreign' it's even shitter than usual Violent Shitness 🤣
Also having worked in Myanmar you'd not find a young bloke with a worldwide outlook chewing betel 🙄

Also I wanted to say to every one of you- thanks for the read-along comments! I'm only up to 7th Feb comments as I'm behind.

We used to watch it at uni and my Irish housemates would do excellent 'posh Irish woman thinking' impressions of Amanda Burton.

Then with my ex husband one of the happy times I can recall is watching this absolute tosh and enjoying at least the story arc.

But Clarissa is needed! Or someone with some wit and acting skills.

Having the 'celeb'/ guest detectives makes it even more cringe as they're all quite good and it makes Nikki and Jack even worse.