Unforgotten Bingers - Spoilers Ahoy!

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

There always seems quite a few actors each series who you think must have a bigger part because of how well known they are/previous stuff they've done but never do.

Dunno what you lot were watching, I thought that it was brilliant. Unforgotten is one of my fave TV shows ever and this was a great story, with all the usual intertwined characters. For me the ending was superb - [spoilers!] I was disliking the Uni lecturer and was quite pleased that it was going to be her who did it, but the way the story turned was really good, that it was the daughter by accident and she didn't know, and mum was doing everything to protect her. She had my sympathy by the end. Yes, there are elements of the story that weren't quite right (couldn't imagine her hauling hubby's body in a holdall!), but to enjoy any TV/film you have to go with the flow rather than continually look for errors. 10/10 for me.

That tiny frail woman did all that? With kitchen tools? And cleaned up? Ok

As others have said I found it very difficult to believe that she let him bleed to death and then disposed of the body, while her daughter was in the house. And then carried on with her normal life.

I do weights twice a week and still struggle to carry my 35kg dog into the vets when she's ill. I'd need a hand to carry DH to a marsh, even if I'd managed to find a big bag to put him in first.

It was all a bit ‘scooby doo’ and almost a ‘ta daa’ with the marker pen registration plate and the father in the care home keeping his diaries in a storage unit, ‘thank goodness he did that to help us solve this mystery’ the writer found some convenient scenarios to close the plot, i have always loved this series but this one was too far fetched

Agreed. Is it a new writer? I like this series as it has a heart and usually ties all strands together well. Disappointing this time.

Same writer. Chris Lang.

The mum was doing everything to protect her daughter...until she decided to tell her daughter that she had accidentally killed her father!! She took the risk that the CPS wouldn't charge the daughter or her with anything - and it paid off. So no jail time for the dismembering lecturer, but she's absolutely destroyed her daughter's life who now has to live with that knowledge for ever. No sympathy at all for the mum.

Other than struggling with the idea that she took less than an hour to dismember her husband's recently deceased body (I'd have used at least an hour just throwing up) I thought this season was great.

My take was that she realised there was no way her daughter wouldn't work out what actually happened if it was taken to trial. It was one thing for an 11 year old not to put things together, but the second a 14/15 year old heard that it was by being stabbed with a small kitchen knife she would have known. By having the conversation with her now she could hear it in a controlled way directly from her mum, rather than in court.
I think she'd protected her from the truth for as long as possible but had to change her approach when she realised it was no longer possible.

She could have said that the daughter made the initial cut, but she took the decision to let him die rather than get help. Take a bit of the guilt off her…

I wondered what the point of the lecturer's argument and case with her student was. Had me baffled why that was given screen time.

To show her temper?

If the daughter didn't see him bleeding though she might never have thought that she'd injured him badly enough to kill him.

Even if she suspected that she then has to realise that her mum cut him up & chucked him away!

@diddl yes, I wondered if it was to show her character in more depth. She was very stubborn over it too.

I liked the character development and how the threads were all linked, just so many questions.

Is it really not in the public interest not to prosecute someone for dismembering and disposal of a body. Surely perverting the course of justice or wasting police time would have been something. 1hr to dismember a body with 2 carving knives?! Surely she'd have needed an electric saw too at the very least. The mess! there must've been blood everywhere. She just wiped it all up with a couple of cloths.

The Dewailis. They needed a translater 3 years ago yet now the dm spoke perfect English? Yes languages can be learnt in 3 years but to speak it at that level was some accomplishment.

The man in the home conveniently having a diary from 2021.

Why would anyone keep a bloodstained top in storage?

Leanne, disclosing she'd abandoned her dd wirh the violent df but didn't want to spoil a potential new relationship so just left that for him to ponder over.

It is shot so beautifully, so many interesting characters but it is a bit silly at times.

This part was never actually addressed was it? There was no reason at all for Marty's mum to tell him not to talk about his dad to the police!

In the first episode, Marty threw some flowers into the sea and said "Sorry Dad". Who knows what the writer intended for him with that apology? So perhaps Marty did bump him off.

Yeah that bit stretched credibility somewhat. Also, imagine the mess - bleeding out from a severed femoral artery would have been immediate and catastrophic, and it's impossible the daughter could have missed that, I'd have thought. And then you have to clear all that up as well as dismember the body?
(I once chopped the tip of a finger off accidentally and the amount of blood that relatively minor injury produced had to be seen to be believed. If an adult male bled out on your floor, it would take more than a few wipes to clear it up).

Gerry convinced Marty that the covid vaccine was bad & not to have it.

Marty convinced his parents not to have it & his dad died of covid.

Marty blames himself so I guess that's what the apology was?

Perhaps Marty's dad dying of covid after not having the vaccine because of what Gerry said gave Marty a motive?

I just finished watching yesterday and had some of the same thoughts
A carving knife to dismember an adult human?
A holdall strong enough to carry him
Her being strong enough to carry the holdall
..(as well as the clear up)

And yes to the mum of the immigrant family speaking perfect English....I thought the policeman was way too slow on the uptake to realise what had happened though....
I was desperate for it not to be Asif though