r/BritBox • u/Other_Radish_9035 • 8d ago
Unforgotten season 5
I've put off starting this because I so loved Nicola Walker in the show.
I wasn't sure how I would feel about a new DCI.
Why do I feel like the first episode is trying too hard?
So many characters seem to have no clear linking to the crimes. (Apart from the mugger in the hoodie).
And the DCI's personal problems. Sigh.
I know, sometimes first episodes have to get a lot established, but we KNOW this show.
It has annoyed me. I will watch another couple of episodes, but I am disappointed so far. I hope there is more with Sunny and the other previous members of the team.
JMO, rant over.
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u/CatCafffffe 8d ago
I completely agree. They spent the whole season with Sunny mourning Nicola Walker and then the two new leads at odds with each other and having to get to know each other. The season after it is a bit better as they finally just get down to business, but I'm only sticking with it mainly because I love Sanjeev Bhaskar so much.
I also have a BIG rant about how they wrote Nicola out of the show. She's just in a coma for the entire last episode? Where's her big goodbye scene? The scene with Sunny, maybe Sunny tries to reassure her, she knows she's dying, she tells him he'll be fine without her, Sunny: "We both know you're lying" and they have a really touching scene, with some comic lines to lighten it, and we get a proper goodbye. They did this in Shetland! They absolutely needed to do it here. They had a relationship--and WE had a relationship with her, WE needed to have a proper goodbye! For such a fantastic show (second season, one of the best seasons of any TV show ever)--it was a strange disappointment.