Unforgotten, the British police series about historical cases stays the course in season 4. The season aired in the UK, but no US streamer has it available yet. Both Prime Video and PBS will run this series eventually. I won’t reveal any big secrets here since it may be a bit of a wait for most people in the US to see season 4.
Unforgotten has been a huge favorite of mine, largely because of Nicola Walker in the starring role as DCI Cassie Stuart. She’s the head of a department that investigates newly discovered crimes from the past. In series 4, a body is found that has been frozen solid for 30 years. Cassie’s team takes the case and tries to determine what happened. Co-starring with her is partner DI Sunil ‘Sunny’ Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar).
If you’re interested in season 4, I’m sure you know how past seasons of the series worked. The police uncover the names of people of interest from the past – usually four of them – and set about questioning them to figure out what happened.
The interesting thing about the 4 persons of interest this season is that they were all just out of training to become police officers 30 years ago when the death occurred. Liz Baildon (Susan Lynch) is still a copper and up for a promotion. She’s a lesbian with a horrible mother (Sheila Hancock).
Fiona Grayson (Liz White) is a therapist now and has a husband and two kids. They are trying to buy a house and have money issues.
Ram Sidhu (Phaldut Sharma) is still a cop. He has anger issues and is often accused of misbehavior on the job. He gets out of everything by claiming he’s being attacked on the basis of racism. His wife is pregnant.
The fourth person is Dean Barton (Andy Nyman) who is busy raising money for a Down’s Syndrome charity because of his son. He’s a great dad.
When the season begins, Cassie is trying to retire for medical reasons. She has 3 months left to serve to give her the needed 30 years to retire and the police won’t give it to her. She finally faces the fact she’ll have to work 3 more months before she can be done with the job that has burned her out. Cassie is mad about the way she’s been treated by the police department. She’s dealing with her unemployed son (Jassa Ahluwalia) and her ailing dad (Peter Egan). There’s a new man in her life. She’s overtired and distracted and something terrible happens because of that.
Unforgotten features careful, sensible police work and real-feeling characters with complex lives. This season maintains the brilliant writing and casting that have made past seasons so good. A fifth season is already approved.
I couldn’t find a usable trailer but here’s a interview with Nicola that contains the trailer. Also, I could not love Nicola Walker more.
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love love love this series – cant wait for season 4 to stream in the US – Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar are fabulous actors – have seen them in other shows and they never disappoint – plus they have such great chemistry in this series –
Fingers crossed it gets to PBS soon.
OMG! So, even season 5 is already approved and have not yet seen S4. And dvd of S4 is on the way too soon as end of this month. WOW! Feels like have been waiting so long, that had forgotten altogether. And suddenly there it IS. Great description of the series, and nice add the interview too. Reveals how different Walker is compared to her characters on this show and LTIH. Can only think that it must be quite hard for her to keep straight face on set. Like said on T, would follow her anywhere, but have not been followed on Split (if that was the series they also were talking about). Do remember seen some promo somewhere and think it´s also available on net of Finnish tv service. But do not like those kind of court dramas, so passed it. Been quite a while when previously have been here. Need to take effort and check out whats ou here more often. ;D
Once again, Virginia, brilliant review, as usual.
Thanks! Thanks for reading and for the comment.
I am “jealous” that you were able to see Season 4 already! I agree with you that Nicola Walker is such a great actress. Any vehicle with her featured is a “must watch” for me. And Sanjeev Bhaskar is perfectly paired with her in this series. I chuckle when I remember their “brief encounter” when they kissed to discover there was not that kind of chemistry between them. This series is so well written, the scenes, the plots, subplots, etc. Convinces me even more that British productions are so much better than American, which I only watch to see Bosch and perhaps one other.
I got lucky getting to see it. Hope you can, too. Very soon.
did you watch it through VPN?
I have trouble with VPN. I’d like to watch everything in the whole world with it, but can’t