Unforgotten Bingers - Spoilers Ahoy!

[EineReiseDurchDieZeit]

For people who have started this afternoon and aren't doing TV Pace! Spoilers allowed

It was last series.

Im not sure about him and Leanne got to say.

I enjoyed it but agree I do prefer the first few series, seemed quite rushed and some very odd storylines!

Why did they have Melinda's boyfriend in hospital and make a big deal of his situation? And the actor having played baddies in so many other shoes seemed like he was going to be a bigger part.
I also couldn't get my head round him, the vicar she was sleeping with and the doctor her boyfriend was working with all looked exactly the same! Thought she was going to end up with the doctor at one point!
The immigrant storyline also was odd alot of time spent on the other guy in thr truck, getting false document working and it just sort of fizzles out

and all the endless lecturing by Asif etc . I am half way through and calling it quits .

@icecreamscoops - agreed - the priest and the hospital doctor were so similar looking. Do the casting team not take that into account?

My DH hates me picking into plot holes… he was unlucky with this series, I went on a bit of a rant after the last episode!

SPOILERS A-PLENTY

Juliet and a couple of Kenwood Electric knives dismembering a body?

Carrying the weight of a large male in a hold-all?

CPS deciding not to prosecute either case within about 5 minutes 🤨?

such a ‘quick, let’s get it all wrapped up’

They ALL look like my best work mate who is also Irish! I kept saying that all the way through it. I've never seen the Emmett Scanlan bloke or anything he's played before but the point of him being there I don't really get? He must have met her when she legged it to Ireland after the abortion and Cooper vanishing.

@flapjackfairy yes! Asif going off on a rant to his boyfriend as if it was all his fault!

I thought having Juliet dismember her husband's body was ridiculous. I've never dismembered a body obviously, but I imagine it would take a small lady like Juliet more than an hour to do (as she claimed). It must take a lot of strength and effort and would she really do that? And the daughter having no idea that she'd killed her father? All weird.

I thought it was very weak, chock full of clichés and box ticking. Too many subplots and too many side characters.
My attention kept drifting.

I thought the putting it into a holdall part was ridiculous, too. I thought she was going to say she'd put each bit in seperately and carried them to the car one by one, so the torso, then each leg, and maybe the two arms and head together. But the whole body?!

I didn't see the point of Mel's partner either, didn't understand why she was shagging the priest, and did think she and the doctor were about to start something!

Why did they have Melinda's boyfriend in hospital and make a big deal of his situation? And the actor having played baddies in so many other shoes seemed like he was going to be a bigger part.

I think this more or less sums up this series - the only point of Mel's boyfriend was for the moment she abandoned him in hospital because of her 'terrible secret' (which was supposed to make us think she was a murder suspect), and then for the moment when she got her terrible secret off her chest, and Saw The Light and Recanted her Evil GB News ways, and went back to look after him. He didn't get to have any real personality because he was just there to make her look bad, then sorry.

Given the serious emotional impact of the storylines, the characters felt a bit two-dimensional. Sam the soldier was there to be reminded that the Army had let down Asif's community, and also be gay, so he could do the decent thing and take the rap for Asif, and then have a happy ever after engagement on the beach. The priest was there to shag and betray Mel because ew, religious hypocrisy. The dead man felt like a caricature of a wicked bigoted landlord, not a real person you could imagine being married to someone like Juliet. (So why did she marry him? What was her backstory, that enabled her to dismember and dispose of a body so relatively calmly? How big was that bag?! ARGH.)

I wouldn't have minded (or noticed?) the political point-making so much if it had been better written but it was all so broad-brush strokes and clunky. It used to be so much better than this, when you had six characters converging on a revelation, not six different issues.

There were so many unanswered questions. Did Marty hit his mum? What happened to Hassan? Why did Chris Lang have two characters as suspects who were never going to be the actual murderer? And, I agree, what would a university lecturer see in a slum landlord?

And were we supposed to think that once the body was identified the daughter didn't realise she had killed him? Or did I misunderstand that?

yes they did plus Asif looked similar as well

I did not like Myanna Burings 'curling wand' fringe

I think the writer made it a relatively recent murder so that loads of current issues could be put in the mix. Immigration, gay asylum seekers, lonely young men/online hate, political right TV channels. I was only surprised that a trans man man wasn’t shoehorned in to the mix!

Having said that it is still one of my favourite things on TV.

I enjoyed this but agree about too many sub plots and political tick boxing. I thought the actor who played Marty was excellent.

Which character did Jan Francis play ?

Melinda’s mum. She only had one scene.

Having Emmett Scanlan as Melinda's partner just blew my mind.

What a WASTE, he's such a fantastic act - and a massive name in Kin.

Could this have been filmed years ago? I can't imagine someone of his calibre signing up for such a minor part when he's been such a main part of other shows recently,,

Every season of this...the murderer is always the least likely person to have done it

I called it

Are we sure the police would not have sought a prosecution for a woman who cut up her dead husband, dumped the body prompting a hugely costly investigation?

@KnewYearKnewMe

I got the feeling he was meant to be a bigger part and that they as a couple were going to be investigated and then they went the other way I totally agree that as a high quality actor he was randomly wasted in a small role

I came here looking for answers but sadly I think we are all confused!

Main question for me is why did Marty's mum tell him not to mention daddy to the police. Was that ever explained?

Also didn't the old man with the diary describe two people he met on the path?? Or did I misremember that?

@KnewYearKnewMe I was also surprised he did more or less nothing in this. I can only assume he shot more stuff that wasn’t included in the final cut. I note he’s in the new Guy Ritchie film. Similarly, perhaps Jan Francis originally had a bigger role compared to what we saw - what would be the point travelling in from home just to do one scene?

@benfoldsfivefan , @EineReiseDurchDieZeit - you must be right.

How frustrating as an actor - really could undermine your career 😥😥

I absolutely love love Kin. Agree he’s stupendous in that.

I kept waiting for something more to happen with his character and it never did. His wife was the lead in The Hardacres so maybe it was just a family childcare decision that he'd take smaller roles while she's busier.