Unforgettable
2011
Original language: English
- crime
- drama
- mystery
The story
Former Syracuse, New York, police detective Carrie Wells has hyperthymesia, a rare medical condition that gives her the ability to visually remember everything. She reluctantly joins the New York City Police Department's Queens homicide unit after her former boyfriend and partner asks for help with solving a case. The move allows her to try to find out the one thing she has been unable to remember, which is what happened the day her sister was murdered.
What it’s like
Cool, procedural daylight and city grey: Queens precincts shot in flat fluorescent offices and rain-slick streets, with a steady, workmanlike camera that lingers on faces and case boards more than on action. The sound is mostly crisp dialogue, ringing phones and a low, unobtrusive score that swells at the big reveals. It feels like a steady network-TV crime hour: tense without being bleak, cerebral more than visceral. Violence is present but generally offscreen or brief, with the bodies handled quickly and the focus on interviews, timelines and memory; expect murder and grief as the premise, not gore, sexual content or prolonged cruelty. The pace is brisk and episodic, a new case each hour with a slower undercurrent about an old family wound. Emotionally it is steady and a little melancholy, following a woman whose perfect recall becomes a burden as she slowly lets a few colleagues close. It suits a weeknight watch, a cosy-but-tense procedural binge, or background attention while doing chores, for people who like police procedurals with a strong central detective and a personal mystery running beneath the cases.
More TV shows like Unforgettable
Closest in mood, pacing and theme. Tell us why you loved Unforgettableand we’ll explain which ones fit you.
