By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart

This is a series which I loved and had a quirky love interest at its heart, a condition little known to me but which exists and the actors I recognized and who had either already made an impression on me OR went on to do so thereafter. You know the thing, someone pops up in a TV screen, you point and exclaim, “Oh God that’s erm, them, now what were they in before?”

Unforgettable ran for an unforgettable 4 seasons and 61 episodes. In the UK I can see repeats on Sky – occasionally – but more often on Amazon Prime. Starring Poppy Montgomery, the premise is very simple. Carrie Wells, played by Montgomery, has a memory like no other – she has hyperthymesia – she has the ability to visually remember everything she sees. She has joined the police force as she was 8 when her sister was murdered in Syracuse, and this overarching narrative as central to a lot of the episodes in which she was trying to fit investigations into her sister’s death alongside her normal day to day crime solving, and gambling, and misbehaving and dealing with her superpower… She was a complex character!