Unforgotten dares to try to keep it up with out Nicola Walker’s DCI Cassie Stuart – can this fifth collection work?
“Then I’d say it’s game on”
Just a quickie for this primary episode of the fifth collection of Unforgotten as I’ve nearly gotten over the premature demise of DCI Cassie Stuart final time spherical, a tragic farewell to Nicola Walker’s iconic work alongside Sanjeev Bhaskar’s DI Sunny Khan on the coronary heart of Chris Lang’s cold-case crime collection. The staff remains to be grieving and a parade of interim bosses has given strategy to the arrival of DCI Jessie James (Sinéad Keenan) who appears to be like set to ruffle the feathers of all involved.
For my liking, there was a bit an excessive amount of consideration on James’ private life in setting her up as a personality. Part of the enjoyment of Unforgiven has been its persevering with deal with the victims – each dwelling and lifeless – of the horrible crimes that it uncovers. And after this primary episode, we’re nonetheless fairly a method away from understanding something concerning the physique found in a chimney breast and the connections which might be set to unfold betwee the disparate units of characters we’ve met all through.
I’ve no drawback with the lengthy recreation (or the nonetheless lengthy you need recreation, because the complete present is now obtainable to stream) however I discovered I had restricted persistence for Andrew Lancel’s philandering Steve, given we all know so little about Jessie in the intervening time. But the nods to Cassie’s absence had been superbly essayed by Bhaskar’s pained efficiency and there’s an exciting set of actors – Martina Laird, Ian McElhinney, Hayley Mills and extra – set to be put by the wringer. I’ll be having fun with this week-by-week I believe, and hoping for extra Daniel Boys, however it looks as if there may be life after Nicola Walker in any case…