We begin this week in an entirely different park—colonial British India perhaps—where big-game hunting is the sin du jour. Two guests use a form of Russian roulette as a human/robot assay test before getting intimate … they’re looking for the real deal, you see. After their hookup, they head out to the grounds where things…
David Walker is dead; murdered in 1990, his body is found folded up inside a suitcase recently dredged up from a river. DCI Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker) and DI Sunny Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar) are on the case, and it hasn’t taken them long to narrow the field to a handful of suspects. First is David…
The tantalizing twists and mysteries that were such a big part of the first season—and so lacking in last week’s Season 2 opener—returned in a small way in this episode, and it’s just enough to spur the interest. The Man in Black (Ed Harris) is, of course, finally in a game where the stakes are…
“Sex, death, and revenge: Here are three of our main topics.” In this instance, teacher Sara Mahmoud (Badria Timimi) is talking about Shakespeare’s Macbeth, but she could just as easily be talking about Series 2 of Unforgotten on Masterpiece Mystery. For where would the world of crime drama be without sex, death, and revenge? Not…
The spectrum of “bad behavior” stretches all the way from kicking puppies to genocide. How despicable can the central character of a movie or TV show be before you can’t watch it anymore? Can they be a pimp? A murderer? Serial killer? (Previously on Dexter…) A cannibal? (Hannibal Lecter, come on down!) How about this:…
Each episode of Unforgotten on Masterpiece Mystery can be summed up in a single line of dialog. For Episode 3, it would be: “This is who we are now.” The generation of characters who would have been small children or not even born when Jimmy Sullivan was murdered are now adults whose lives have been…
Happy-go-lucky teenager Jimmy Sullivan is the unlikely linchpin that links a cast of disparate characters in Unforgotten on Masterpiece Mystery. As the investigation into Jimmy’s murder continues, each new development threatens to destroy the lives of those involved. Start with Lizzie Wilton (Ruth Sheen), or Beth Laws as she once was known. Her life isn’t…
At the end of last season, the war had just begun. The robots—manufactured for the sole purpose of the sinful self-indulgence of humans—had developed full sentience after decades of being ravaged and then reprogrammed. All the while, their creator patiently honed them in preparation for their awakening … and for a reckoning. Season 2 picks…
The BBC America marketing department knew what they were doing when they tacked a sneak preview of Killing Eve onto an Orphan Black retrospective highlight show a couple of weeks ago. My DVR, set to record anything related to Orphan Black, recorded this. Boy, am I glad. Killing Eve seems poised to fill the empty…
“Is a crime less serious because time has passed? Is a wrong less wrong because it was done 50 years ago? Or 60? Or 70?” That, in so many words, is the motivation behind Unforgotten, a cold-case police procedural now airing on Masterpiece Mystery. The premise is nothing new; we’ve seen, read, and heard cold-case…
