I didn't like Jack's attitude that if they had him, they'd have her too, but I like her as a character, she balances out Jack.ĭuring the last series Leo got on my nerves. While it's taking me time to get used to Jack, I liked Clarissa from the off. That said, he's an interesting character and I'm glad they've brought in someone who does forensics rather than just another pathologist it's given them another angle to focus on with cases. I'm also not that impressed by the tough guy routine. On a totally shallow level, he's not as nice to look at as Harry. I also still haven't totally warmed to the new boy, Jack. I understand the actor wanting to leave, and I understand the fact that they couldn't change the last episode into his last one, but I think they could've done something just to include him a little more maybe a couple of emails or something, just to make his disappearance more credible. It was frustrating that there's been years of build-up with Nikki and Harry, they've had this brilliant connection and play off each other so well, and it's all for nothing. The only real reference to him all series. This series had a quick mention of Harry accepting a professorship in America. The last series was pretty poor and it aired out of order which meant that it ended with Harry moving in with Nikki after an explosion in his flat. “Somehow the new guy in the lab happens to discover a dead body at a festival packed with 1000s of people.What was disappointing is the way he left. They say the show has become so farcical that it's become great entertainment.Įmilia Fox and David Caves may still be two of the leading lights as they play Dr Nikki Alexander and Jack Hodgson – now a romantic couple – but they have been joined by a new anatomical pathology trainee Velvy Schur (played by Alastair Michael), pathologist Gabriel Folukoya (played by Aki Omoshaybi) and Cara Connelly, Jack’s deaf niece, with Rhiannon May returning following her guest role in the previous two episodes.Īnd while some favourite characters have now long gone, like Sam Ryan, Leo Dalton, Thomas Chamberlain, Harry Cunningham and Clarissa Mullery, audience figures have still been pretty good over the years, but is there a sea change coming? The best run was arguably between series 18 and 23, where between eight and just over nine million people were watching, but that dropped to 7.3 million by series 24, while last year’s brought a lowest ever tally of 6.33 million.Īnd if comments on social media are anything to go by, then Silent Witness could struggle to match last year’s average viewership, with this tweet by UniversalRevolution 2.0 summing up a lot of the ill feeling currently doing the rounds: “What has happened to #SilentWitness? The Storylines are unengaging and the Script is actually laughable. However this week's episode saw some viewers fall back in love with the show - and hail it as 'the Alan Partridge of TV crime shows'. But fans of the forensic crime have not been happy in recent weeks - criticising it for becoming "ridiculous" and "completely incomprehensible". Once one of the great bastions of the British televison, it recently returned to television screens for a 26th series. It would appear viewers are now loving BBC One's Silent Witness for all the wrong reasons.
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