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Unforgettable is just your typical, cookie-cutter, vanilla, bland police procedural where someone dies in the beginning, the detectives investigate, there’s a couple of suspects along the way and a twist about 45 minutes into it, with a little misdirection and then the real suspect is exposed and in true “CSI”/”Scooby Doo, Where Are You?” fashion, the real culprit (sans attorney) admits everything and the then laments how they could have gotten away with it. It’s well cast, the performances are fine, it’s shot well, the storytelling is OK (if not entirely original) and the pace is decent, but then again, it’s hard to screw up a show when your playing Police Procedural Mad Libs (and no, it’s no coincidence that the creator of Mad Libs was the late Leonard Stern, well known television writer and producer). Continue reading →