UNFORGOTTEN S6 - sun9/mon10 - Itv 9pm - TV PACE. NO SPOILERS

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Yah it’s back.

Unforgotten

This will be tv paced , as mine always are

as it will be on ITVX as a box set so sure there will be binge threads

No spoilers please 😘

Sinéad Keenan and Sanjeev Bhaskar return for another instalment of the hit ITV crime drama.

The sixth season is set to premiere on ITV1 (and STV in Scotland) on Sunday 9th February at 9pm, with all episodes of the season available to stream on ITVX as a boxset on the same day.

The second episode will then air on Monday 10th February at 9pm, also on ITV1 and STV.

And then back the following sun /mon eve

The new run takes on a brand new case, with Sinéad Keenan and Sanjeev Bhaskar (www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/unforgotten-cast-itv/) reprising their leading roles as DCI Jessica James and DI Sunny Khan, respectively.

While their initial season working together didn't get off to the smoothest of starts, we're sure things will be a little more plain-sailing for Jessie and Sunny as they embark on yet another grisly investigation.

Like previous seasons of the hit ITV drama, we'll once again be thrown into another complicated case that offers up multiple individuals that seemingly don't have a connection but are somehow caught up in the case at hand.

According to the synopsis: "The series begins when suspected human remains are uncovered on Whitney Marsh – Jess and Sunny are immediately called to the scene, abandoning their evening plans to Jess’s husband’s chagrin.

Dr Balcombe’s analysis reveals that the remains are relatively recent and suggest a grim conclusion: the body was placed there already dismembered.

"With this insight, Jess and Sunny intensify their search certain that other body parts may not be far away."

The guest cast for the series includes MyAnna Buring (The Witcher), Elham Elas (Shantaram), Victoria Hamilton (COBRA) and newcomer Max Fairley, as well as Jan Francis (Just Good Friends) and Damien Molony (Brassic (www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/brassic-sky-cast/)).

Andrew Lancel (Bolan’s Shoes) is also reprising his role as Jess’s husband Steve, while Kate Robbins (The Couple Next Door (www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/the-couple-next-door-season-2-cast-confirmed-newsupdate/)) returns as Jessie's mother Kate.

Teasing what's to come with their characters, the season 6 synopsis reveals: "As the investigation unfolds, viewers are introduced to a diverse new cast of characters: Melinda Ricci (MyAnna Buring), an outspoken television commentator based in Ireland; Martin 'Marty' Baines (Max Fairley), an autistic man living with his mother Dot in Deal, Kent; Asif Syed (Elham Elas), an Afghan training for his UK citizenship test; and Juliet Cooper (Victoria Hamilton), a history lecturer and faculty head at a London university.

"While these characters live seemingly separate lives, they are intricately connected by their pasts.

It’s up to Jess, Sunny, and their dedicated team to uncover these hidden links and ultimately expose the truth behind the cold case murder."

E6 recap

https://www.whattowatch.com/features/unforgotten-season-6-ending-explained-who-killed-gerrard-cooper

He rang her and said they all have secrets and regrets and he wants to see her

so hopefully romance for him for next series with her

Especially with a carving knife!

the bay s5 is on next week sun and mon 9pm in place

There was a lot of “issues” shoehorned into this series which I started to find a bit tedious after a while; the good asylum seekers vs the evil landlord, the woke students vs the reasonable lecturer. I agree that the bit with Ram Sidhu was completely pointless, and wouldn’t the police have already looked at Gerry’s phone records when he was first reported missing?

I also find it a bit hard to believe that Taylor never made the connection between stabbing her dad in the thigh with a kitchen knife and him going missing two days later, later presumed (and then confirmed) dead.

She did make the connection - she said to Juliet that she thought her dad had committed suicide because of her (what she did). And in the first episode when Leanne says Gerry had been stabbed in the thigh, Sunny made the point that you wouldn't expect that to be fatal.

think I said the same. How can a tiny nik bleed out so fast in mins

I think it was explained that the knife had hit the femoral artery and so would have caused fatal blood loss very quickly

Yes know coroner said that - just seems such a fluke

Also Gerry was a big man and Juliet is tiny. How could she drag his dead body back and forwards in the house?

As much as I love Emmett, his part was completely pointless. It added nothing to Melinda's backstory. There didn't need to be a paralysed husband at all. And his inclusion made me think his accident could have been more sinister when in fact it was nothing whatsoever to do with anything.

How did she cut him up in an hour? Perhaps it’s easier than I imagine.

What size hold-all? A man’s torso is still big. And he would have weighed the same all chopped up. How did she carry him?

I agree with this about the CPS. It doesn't seem like a decision they'd make, given the concealment of the death.

Considering how fab he was in Kim why was he in this for a couple of mins

I watched it a bit early as was going to be busy at 9 pm . I did think it was good , it got much better after the first few episodes .
Sunny is definitely the best character in it

But agree they did try and shoehorn a lot of issues in .

I thought the acting was very good and liked how at the end you had sympathy for Juliet . Prior to that she was seen as quite a brittle / unlikeable character .

Did the daughter - Juliet actually find out that she had killed her dad . Did her Mum tell her this ? Was this one of the 2 options given by Sunny ?

I don't think it was believable either that the CPS decided not to proses cute either within a matter of minutes . They would have had to review all the files / read a report . Artistic licence though .

I thought it was slightly unbelievable that Juliet had said she had managed to cut up the body in an hour . It may be that she lied about this when she was changing the timeframe .

Flippant I know - but I thought it takes me so long to do the prep for meals - that I could never do that in real life !

I'm in a minority, I know, but I went off Asif when he was so dismissive of his partner being concerned about his brother being there. If it was a female partner who owned the house and would be losing their livelihood just being told to deal with it because, effectively, their country owed it to the refugees it would have been seen as controlling behaviour. Asif was also happy for his partner to say it was all on him. I just didn't feel he was as noble as he was meant to appear.
And I agree that there is no way Juliet could have cut up a body and hauled it down the stairs and into a car on her own.

You'd need more than a carving knife to dismember a human body. How would you cut through thick bone and separate limb joints. I don't think Juliet would have been physically or psychologically capable of doing it.

Yes Juliet told her daughter it was her

as if she didn’t and went to court for mum , daughter would have reliesed she did it via the cut

Asif had to make tough choices. I'm pleased I was wrong about him, and Mel. And what do the police say now? Juliet was arrested and charged, wasn't she? Do the publicise the CPS's (implausible) deal, then Juliet and Taylor are surely in for an avalanche of tabloid exposure. Patrick seemed more a plot device to make Mel seem more central than she really was.

I don't think Juliet was charged . I think she was arrested and then questioned . I did wonder that too as I assume given the gruesome nature of the body parts being found that there would be press interest .

@imfae agree about Juliet. She was incredibly unlikeable up until the last episode when there was a switch and you felt real empathy for her and Taylor.

@Butteredtoast55 I guess with Asif, Sam had to cover for him and take the blame otherwise he would have been deported. And theirs was the real love story. But agree it was quite a grey area with Asif, as he was involved in trafficking immigrants and helping them stay illegally, but from what we see of him he was genuinely doing it to help people. Which then throws a different shade on other people traffickers. Are there any good ones? Not what we are told by politicians 🤷🏻‍♀️

That’s a good point @PrincessScarlett. helping humans who have a terrible life in another country - to have a better life

how can that be a bad thing ?

Thinking about this series the characters aside from the mother and daughter felt very tacked on. Like they had invented the character of the dead man and then spent 5 minutes working out who he had annoyed. You can almost see the meeting. ‘He’s a slum landlord’, ‘disgruntled ex employee - shoehorn Covid in there someone how’, ‘he was having an affair’.
The each character was given to a writer to create their back story.

I liked it but I felt that it was more run of the mill police procedural that classic unforgotten. They identified him really quickly then had to fill the 6 episodes with irrelevant back story, like Mel’s husband and affair with the priest.

It would have been more believable if Juliet had said she put the body parts into 2 or 3 bags and carried them down to the car one at a time.

I don’t know who the actor playing Mel’s has was so wasn’t expecting much from him but I assume he was there to give her a happy (ish) ending, putting aside the right wing fascist Barbie thing and devoting her life to caring for him and becoming a better person.

Sam was unbelievably saintly to take the blame for Asif and then proposing!

@SydneyCarton he’s a really well known actor

so it was so weird he had such a small part of play

usually plays badies

he’s in kin

that’s amazing

watch s1&2