Positively Positive Review – the forgotten: Parachute Jane
by Mokibobolink on Oct.15, 2009, under Crime, Drama, Television
Christian Slater in the forgotten, Season 1, episode 4 “Parachute Jane”. Image from www.daemonstv.com
As I watched this week’s episode of the forgotten it occurred to me that there is always going to be an innate sadness to this show. Because the forgotten is different than other procedural dramas. In other shows we see a team looking to solve a crime which is more often than not a murder, but occasionally they get to rescue someone too.
This show doesn’t have that option. Here we already know that our victim is dead and nothing the team does will change that. All the volunteers can hope for is to find out who they are to give the families, and indeed the victims themselves, some closure.
That being said, I don’t see this as an overly sad show. Yes it’s true that I do tend to tear up at the end of each episode. I can’t help it, hearing the voice of the victim tell us who they are as their murderer is brought to justice, just gets to me. But the show still manages to be interesting, exciting and even funny.
This week’s episode had the team looking into the murder of a teenager whose only crime was that she wanted to go home. In the beginning I pegged the girl as a wild teen enjoying her freedom and fooling everyone into thinking she was older than she was. As it turned out, the exact opposite was true, proving that I jump to conclusions much too easily.
Overall another good episode of a show that I’m beginning to enjoy very much.
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