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Critic Reviews
iFeb 10, 2025
Season 6 Review:
What really keeps this prestige drama on the road is the central relationship between Jess and Sunny. They now share the same collegiate bond that Sunny enjoyed with Cassie – indeed, he’s even able to joke about her dirtbag husband’s cooking. The rest of the team are also appealing.
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TV Guide MagazineAug 31, 2023
Season 5 Review:
First-rate. .... The search for the sordid truth brings Sunny and Jessie closer together. I look forward to more of their partnership. [4 - 24 Sep 2023, p.8]
Jul 9, 2021
Season 4 Review:
Unforgotten mostly retains the core of its excellence: its storytelling, its compelling characters, its fascinating cases. It’s not flashy and it’s not out to change the world. But for crime show fans, there are few other series that so expertly and satisfyingly wrap you in a mystery as this one.
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Aug 29, 2025
Season 6 Review:
Scenarios are handled with nuance and a lack of hyperbole, as you would expect, though given the limited screen time each receives, the outcomes of several feel a little pat and artificial. “Unforgotten” lives on its organic combination of crime drama and well-made soap opera, and Season 6 feels a little diffuse, not as emotionally fraught as earlier seasons in which the suspects were more personally intertwined. But the new season benefits from an increasingly seamless integration of Keenan into the ensemble, and of Jess into the story.
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The TimesFeb 10, 2025
Season 6 Review:
Chris Lang’s characters are so well-drawn and the scripts so expansive, their many strands skilfully interlaced, that it sucks you in. Sunny and Jess have more chemistry now that her ice-queen act has thawed. True, not as much as with Cassie, but it’s still early enough days.
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The IndependentFeb 10, 2025
Season 6 Review:
Unforgotten is clever in how it taps into real-world issues – storylines about a right-wing news network and refugees are clearly plugged into modern politics, but the script does not lecture the viewer. Never preachy or self-righteous, Unforgotten is about real people in extraordinary circumstances and remains one of the most unique and compelling crime shows around.
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Radio TimesFeb 27, 2023
Season 5 Review:
Unforgotten is as much about the central main cast as it is about the guest stars and the case that unfolds throughout each season. The performances in these five new episodes, particularly from Yates as troubled Rhys and Laird as complicated Ebele, underline the drama as continuing its streak of incredibly strong storytelling.
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The TelegraphFeb 27, 2023
Season 5 Review:
Some shows fail when they try to carry on with a new lead – Morecambe detective drama The Bay hasn’t been the same since Morven Christie was replaced by another actress, Marsha Thomason – but Unforgotten will thrive. Keenan is great, Bhaskar provides continuity, and the format is unshakeable.
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TV Guide MagazineJul 20, 2021
Season 4 Review:
Hits an emotional peak in Season 4. [19 Jul - 1 Aug 2021, p.7]
The TimesFeb 23, 2021
Season 4 Review:
The sight of Nicola Walker's soulful bloodhound eyes as DCI Cassie Stuart, our PTSD suffering detective, triggers a warm sense of familiarity and "getting back to normal" after months of Covid necessitated repeats and cobbled together TV schedules. With Chris Lang's creation we are on a promise: quality dialogue, quality misery.
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The TelegraphFeb 22, 2021
Season 4 Review:
Plausibility is one of the many good things about this show. Oh, the blessed relief of watching a detective drama in which the detectives are free of quirks and the script is free of gimmicks, where colleagues can work together without simmering sexual tension or screaming rows, and where the lead character happens to be a woman without that being A Remarkable Thing.
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The IndependentFeb 22, 2021
Season 4 Review:
The chemistry between Bhaskar and Walker is vital. He’s a deadpan humourist, trying to keep spirits up in the face of violent crime. She is a schoolmarmish professional, keeping it together under tremendous stress. Both actors are terrific. ... While it hangs on the leads, the supporting cast have grown into their roles, too, especially Jordan Long as Murray Boulting and Carolina Main as Fran Lingley.
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The Observer (UK)Feb 18, 2025
Season 6 Review:
Chris Lang’s writing seems to have slipped a little below the high standards established in Nicola Walker’s leading role heyday. Yet there’s a Zen-like acceptance to the way that Bhaskar delivers his lines, as if he’s not going to let some leaden dialogue hinder the smooth running of proceedings.
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The TelegraphFeb 10, 2025
Season 6 Review:
The supporting cast is strong, with Victoria Hamilton standing out as the beleaguered lecturer. But whether you stick around to find out how the four suspects are connected (the series continues tonight), or to enjoy the performances and plot twists, may depend on your political stripes.
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iDec 3, 2021
Season 4 Review:
All good detective shows have a penny-drop moment and this one – in which the five new characters we had been introduced to were revealed to be friends with the decapitated man in the freezer – was enough to secure my attention for at least another week. After that, the show will have to work twice as hard to keep me watching.
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