Unforgettable (2011)
She can do anything but forget.
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.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 20 September 2011 |
| Status | Canceled |
| Genre | Crime, Drama, Mystery |
| Created by | John Bellucci and Ed Redlich |
| Starring | Poppy Montgomery, Dylan Walsh and James Hiroyuki Liao |
| Seasons | 4 seasons, 61 episodes |
| Episode length | about 45 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 46 hours |
| Rated | TV-14 |
| Scores | TMDB users 7.2/10 |
Where to watch Unforgettable
Unforgettable is streaming on Prime Video ($8.99 a month) in the US. It is also on Tubi. At ten hours a week, all of the series takes about 2 months of Prime Video, or $17.98 at list price.
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What kind of watch this is
Hyperthymesia is a rare condition that lets Carrie Wells visually remember everything. For a cop, that is a superpower. For a person trying to move on, it is a prison. She joins the Queens homicide unit to find the one gap in her memory: the day her sister was murdered. The show runs 45 minutes per episode across 4 seasons, totaling 61 episodes. That is 46 hours of a woman who cannot stop seeing the past.
What the critics said
The reception was lukewarm, a word that fits the show better than "compelling" does. Rotten Tomatoes gives season 1 a 40% score based on 20 reviews. Their consensus calls it "more tedious than compelling," a diagnosis that stings. Metacritic lands on 59 out of 100 from 23 reviews, filing it under mixed or average. IMDb users are slightly kinder, rating the series 6.8 out of 10. It is rare for a show to be called boring and decent in the same breath, but here we are.
How it did with audiences
The box office ledger is empty. No budget, no gross, no financial footprint to trace. What remains is the audience score: 7.2 out of 10 on TMDB. That number suggests a crowd that watched, liked it, and moved on. It’s a solid middle-of-the-road approval, the kind that implies enjoyment without obsession. People saw it, rated it, and likely forgot the plot by the next episode of their favorite show.
What came next for the cast
Dylan Walsh traded the water for the cape, moving from We Were Soldiers to Superman & Lois. That is a distinct shift in wardrobe. James Hiroyuki Liao stepped out of procedural work into Star Trek Into Darkness and later Superman. Jane Curtin went from Coneheads to The Heat, finding a new lane for her deadpan. The timeline offers these contrasts, but it does not prove Unforgettable caused them. It just happened.
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Sources
- Unforgettable on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q590572 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “Unforgettable (American TV series)” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
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