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couple of days late but just watched the final episode of the current run of Unforgotten and holy fuck they gonna end it like that!!!!!

Series recommended?

that's next on my list to watch from the start

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yeah i really liked it. but it is v much a police procedural in that every series is based around a body being discovered many years after it was hidden and the same team of officers trying to identify the victim and find out what happened. usually 4 or 5 suspects who we follow in the present day as they go about their lives. so the premise is nothing new but i love how understated it all is, how professional the police are in it (well it is fiction) and the performances of the whole squad.

thanks for the explainer, I kinda hate police procedurals but my partner loves them so maybe i can give it a go after me knock out giri/haji (another police procedural of sorts, lol)

each series is only 4-6 episodes long and about 45mins per episode so not too much of a commitment at least!

That helps! Okay, will try s1 with the missus.

watched The Investigation yesterday, all 4.5 hours of it. wasn't the plan but i got 4/6ths of the way through and wanted to know how it ended. they never show the killer or mention him by name.

(still surprised there's no dedicated scandi tv thread)

Man in Room 301 was ok. suffered from being Finnish but set mostly in Greece.

Also watched The Guilty which was a Danish film set entirely in a police call centre. like the world's biggest bottle episode. lots of reading for that one because it was dialogue heavy.

itv three-parter Too Close is phenomenal so far. The acting is amazing. I can't stop thinking about it.

The Investiation, the danish thing about the submarine killer, was good. lot of familiar faces as mentioned above (although i hadn't twigged at the time that one of them was swedish)

Investi*g*ation

Too Close is leaning very hard on 'middle class markers' and I'm finding it frustratingly formulaic (sorry) - story being told in little memory breadcrumbs, etc. I'll watch Emily Watson in anything, though!

I apologise, I should let someone actually enjoy something sometimes without butting in with my criticism :) I'm enjoying it enough to finish it!

I'll let you away with it this time.

Will try it based on these mixed recommendations (tho really because of Watson tbh)

Midway through the second ep and, yes, Too Close is a little too middle class tropey but the performances of the central two are really good and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

There was a 'Real Bent Coppers' documentary on BBC2 (first of 3 parts) which was quite interesting, a fair bit of actual recorded and archive footage from the late 60s.

Enjoying in a low-key sort of way French low-budget SF Missions: two billionaires race to Mars but something is there waiting for them...

(on iplayer)

Didn't know about that, thanks!

(the second series felt a bit wooly to me)

Uprising was a hard watch at times (3 x 1hr from steve mcqueen on bbc1 recently) but necessary watching, i think.

Under The Wire, on over the weekend, about reporters in Syria was similar. echoes with current afghanistan as well.

That was just recommended to me too. worth starting at the start?

(Missions, that is)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjUEcS6B1OQ

That was just recommended to me too. worth starting at the start?

It wouldn't make any sense otherwise.

(the second series felt a bit wooly to me) (Missions, that is)

I'd have gone for 'bonkers' but yeah it's not hard sf. Given that the revelation in the first series was in blatant contradiction of everything we know about genetics and the fossil record, it was probably to be expected. Some cracking moments though, and some very silly ones. Especially why they didn't just shoot Alice again when she was tied up on the ground.

Just started it and was enjoying the Lost-ness of it (up to a point) and was joking about the lottery numbers just before they did! That one guy keeps reminding me of Will Self.

Is this thread the only mention of Unforgotten on this board? Hadn't heard much about it but I quite liked it for a police procedural. I wouldn't say there's a lot to distinguish it, but the pacing and execution was on-point

I watched all of them not that long ago. There's something quite soothing about the neatly parcelled-out clues coming to light and guessing who dun what. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
I'd say it's more character-driven than your average procedural.

Yeah, we hadn't watched it at the time, but rattled through them all on Netflix and ITV player a few weeks ago. Very likeable.

That's a good point, kinder, about it being more character-driven than similar shows. It's funny because in S1 the few moments where they focus on Cass's personal life felt distracting to the main story, but by S4, I was as invested in her personal life as I was the case!

I've watched 2 episodes of Hollington Drive and it's so awful, it's mildly reminiscent of The Room (the Tommy Wiseau one)

Showtrial is very well put together, particularly if you're into the process side of things. More straightforward but better written than Vigil.
After the execrable Hollington Drive and duuuullll as ditchwater The Long Call it was v welcome.
(I've been burnt twice by trying ITV drama - is the Tower any good, anyone?)

New thread for '22 here

iPlayer 2022 (and All4 etc etc)

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that all the shows that run on iTV in 2021 are nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!