I was exhausted the other night and was just way too tired to get to Unforgettable so I was finally able to get some time and watch it just now.
Premise:
The series follows a former New York City police detective named Carrie Wells, who suffers from hyperthymesia, a rare medical condition that gives her the ability to remember everything. She is reluctantly asked by her former boyfriend and one-time partner to join his homicide unit after he asks for help with solving a case. The move allows her to do the one thing she has been trying to remember, that of finding out how her sister was murdered.
Going in I really didn't see how Carrie's "superpowers" worked. She runs out to a crime scene and the victim turns out to live above her in her building. So she's got some inside knowledge about the victim and she was at the crime scene just after it happened. So Carrie was able to help with this case. But unless people in her life keep getting murdered how will her ability continue to help the NYPD? I just don't get it. It just seems so corny that she can go back to something she saw in her past and examine the entire room looking for clues. They do go to the trouble to make sure that current time Carrie is only looking at what past Carrie would have been looking at. Cheese.
The chemistry between Poppy Montgomery and Dylan Walsh isn't believable at all. That's key because of course they were together in a former life in a former town before they both moved to New York at different times for different reasons. Speaking of believable and this part hurts, Montgomery played an FBI agent on Without a Trace for seven seasons and yet for some reason I'm just not buying her as a cop. I know people love Poppy from her work on Without a Trace, but she always seems so stiff while acting.
Speaking of cheese: "why did you come alone?", "She didn't" gag. Who wrote this?
Bottom line here for me is that Unforgettable is actually quite forgettable.
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