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Unforgettable - Episode 1.01 - Pilot - Review

Sep 21, 2011

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Today yet another new series graced our TV screen. I must admit that I was hooked on this show before it even aired. I like the premise and have always wondered what it must be like for a person who cannot forget. My biggest fear going into this pilot was that it maybe wasn't going to be as good as the promos.



A lot had already been spoiled by those promos, e.g. the fact that Carrie's mother suffers from some form of Altzheimer's disease and that Carrie used to work (and sleep) with Al Burns. So the excitement wasn't necessarily as big as it could have been if the promos had given away a little less of what happens in this episode.

The NYPD team comes acroos as a nice and diverse lot and I hope all these detectives will get individual storylines in future episodes. Since Carrie will hardly be able to be witness to a crime every week I am curious about how her walking in her own memories will figure in in future episodes. I actually enjoyed these recall flashbacks except the music accompanying them struck me as odd.

I liked how Carrie was introduced, because it effectively highlighted the different facets of her personality. She volunteers as a nurse at day and earns her money gambling at night, which of course isn't that hard when you got perfect memory. Then there is this other side to her, the obsessive cataloger with an unresolved mystery.

When it comes to this mystery I really wish they had been more creative. After all we've seen this before on Bones and Castle. Bones's mother was murdered and so was Beckett's and of course these characters spent a lot of time digging into their parent's murder. I reckon the same is going to happen on Unforgettable and I feel there could have been a little bit more variation on this common story element. Her sister could simply have been kidnapped one day, making her look for her everywhere.Something out of the ordinary would have been nice.

The chemistry between Walsh and Montogomery is spot on though and I already see this turning into the good old "will they / won't they" relationship. I have hopes though that the writers of this show may put them together sooner than Bones did and therefore spare us the excruciating drag in the romance department. There is no doubt after this episode that they are supposed to be with each other. He kept investigating her sister's murder after she left him (or he left her, they seem to have different memeories about that) and therefore never gave up on what he knows is most important for her. Still, he never told her as much to spare her false hope.

I am looking forward to see how this show will evolve in the next episode!

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4 comments:

  1. I am undecided yet about watching this series, but may check out the premiere later on. 

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  2. Good review. I noticed a few more flaws from my point of view, but I thought the pilot was a good start for another typical police procedural with a gimmick.

    I did not watch any trailers or promos other than the very first first teaser video, but I found most of the "twists" and plot very predictable. Although to be fair, I think most pilots of procedurals are like that. They spend more time on character introduction than story and it makes the crime plot easy to figure out.

    I did really like how they introduced Carrie too. Although I thought the whole "I'll play with your mind and then grab your own gun" routine was a bit much.

    Didn't Carrie have a flashback and think about having sex with Det. Burns? So wouldn't it be "Will they or won't they again?"

    I think my main issue was how she remembered only enough information or evidence to lead them on a false trail until the end of the episode approached. Then she recalled the pivotal detail and solved the case. To me that is too convenient and wil lget old week after week if it continues.

    I think for fans of the police procedural with a gimmick genre it might be a solid contender for a weekly watch. Assuming they stop or change the "flashback music" like you mentioned. Wow - that was bad!

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  3. This show didn't do anything for me.  I gave it a shot because I like the actress and thought the twist sounded interesting, but she was over emotional throughout the whole thing, and the long stares/memories got to be distracting.

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  4. I love procedurals.  This one bored me.   The introduction of how her memory worked was okay but how she used it in the solving of the crime was nothing special.  I also completely missed...is she a PI?  A former cop? A consultant?  I rewatched the opening to try and figure that out and never picked up on it.

    I have one question.  Why am I seeing all of these discussions about Poppy Montgomery's accent in this show.  I spent years watching her on Without A Trace  and never knew she was from Australia.  Never saw anything in the press about her accent in all that time and suddenly...the question 'How was her accent?' is suddenly popping up.  Did I miss something?  Or did everyone else?

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