Unforgotten (TV Series) Episode #1.6 (2015) User Reviews

Good resolution

[JakersWild · 9/10 · 28 February 2021]

This was a good and thorough resolution to this series, or season as we say in the US. Must say I'm impressed with this show and how naturally and subtly the story is told. Perhaps because it is tiring that so much television has become about conflict through reality show level bickering, it is refreshing to watch something that feels more realistic and less exhausting. There are lots of funny tinged murder shows like The Mentalist or The Closer. This has more of a relaxed tinge. It is also nice to see more details of what happens after the killer is revealed than most crime shows provide, especially with the other suspects.

As to the question of why the son is so angry, there's a scene about 30 minutes in where he says "... and realised that this is who we are now." So in part at least his anger seems to be that scandal of events will follow the family. Of course, it's also believable that someone who grew up with two parents keeping big secrets and who also have had clear anger issues, that it could have been an unhappy household growing up and lead to another person with tendencies to aggressive anger. I'd worry what that man's family would have to deal with in him.

Unforgotten Series 1 ending question

[liberalyloca · 7/10 · 26 April 2018]

I watched this over several weeks on masterpiece theater so it was hard to keep everyone straight in the first two parts. However, without spoilers, wanted to ask why the one son was so mean to the dementia mom ? It made no sense to me. Everyone else's story made sense. but that was such a weird way to end it.

Resolution.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 12 August 2020]

Father Greaves comes clean to his family, the fallout is huge for his family who have spent years in ignorance of his infidelity. The killer is revealed.

Thoroughly enjoyable from beginning to end, what I loved was the amount of explanation that we were given, almost every single strand is explained without loose ends, events seemed so impossibly vague initially.

I would have to agree with the other reviewer, why was Claire's son so awful to her? Her husband treated her so badly, you would have thought he'd have sides with his mum.

Very, very good. 9/10.

Excellent...Some Resolutions a Little Too Pat

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 15 December 2021]

I just chanced upon this series and just completed the first season. I have to say it took me a while to get engaged, but the upside of a series is we can make our way slowly and don't have to have the whole thing done in 90 minutes. Each of the principle characters comes to some resolution. No, it isn't clean in some cases. The dementia thing was a sticking point. Also, the priest was awfully lucky in his thieving and his attempts at retribution. After all those years, didn't anyone suspect? That said, the acting was terrific and the characters consistently intriguing. I will once again give a pat on the back to Tom Courtenay, who gave us an utter villain for most of the show. Also, the two detectives are bland and sincere, just the way they should be--wonderful actors.

answers

[nikosxas · 10/10 · 13 June 2023]

I like the part that father greaves ,Cross and Elizabeth didnt have to do anything about Jimmy's death and they facd their demons at the end

I liked their stories

also ,Eric is the most tragic story,he was gay at the seventies and the person that he made family with ,had some pychological problems and he cared for her and wanted to be family

hiss family never got a nice ending ,because he knows that his son is the one that hits the mother because he has the same problem as her but he is not hitting his with but his mother

but what happens after his mother dies......

anyway ,thats and amazing first season and I hope the second is better ,but Im a little sad that I will not see Nicola Walker after season 4.

Very unsatisfying ending to an otherwise exceptional season

[professor_of_gamez · 6/10 · 11 December 2021]

Where to begin.

First, there was no real resolution on the Slater storyline. Eric CLAIMED Claire did it, but nothing definitive was ever said/determined.

Agree with others who have questioned why Claire's son (?) was so angry with her. Did he kill her at the end? In the version streamed on Amazon, it's not completely clear (though unquestionably implied).

Also, Phillip Cross did not strike me as the kind that would have confessed. Seems like he would have gone down swinging.

Also, don't think he would have committed suicide. Would have enjoyed being a prison "big wig."

Rest of the season was exceptional.

Season 1 ending made no sense

[ChrisScreenwriter · 6/10 · 12 October 2021]

SPOILERS What about the nail in Jimmy's hand? And everybody else's flashbacks about him? That resolution made no sense. 😠

Season One Review

[southdavid · 7/10 · 13 September 2022]

The latest season of ITV's "Unforgotten" was on the Guardian's top 50 shows of 2021, however, I'd not seen any of it before, so I went back to this first season, originally released in 2015. Ordinarily, I'm not much of a fan of Police procedurals, but the shows Cold Case twist and some excellent performances really elevated it.

Remains found in the basement of a former lodging house in London lands on the desk of DCI Cassie Stewart (Nicola Walker) and her team begin the gruelling task of trying to identify who the body is and when the crime was committed. Determining that it took place in the late 1970's, the case eventually draws a seemingly disparate group including Father Robert Greaves (Bernard Hill), wheelchair bound Eric Slater (Tom Courtney), inner city football coach Lizzie Wilton (Ruth Sheen) and business magnate Sir Phillip Cross (Trevor Eve).

I enjoyed the story of this season of "Unforgotten". The initial improbability of determining even who the body belongs too is worked through well and from there the case opens up and follows through in a logical fashion. The performances are really good. The standout is probably Tom Courtney, who was rewarded with a BAFTA for his role as Eric Slater, rather doddering old father and husband, who shows other darker sides to his personality the longer the season runs on.

I do agree that there were some aspects of the story that could have been clearer. Without spoilers I'll just say that the victim's interactions with some of the rest of the suspects could have been made clearer. That's nit-picking at the story though which had much to say about the long term effects of burying the truth for decades and, as I say, the performances really are first rate.

Looking forward to moving on to season two.