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V ery good first season. Hope a second season is in the making.

Just watched the fourth episode of Season 3. Chris Lang has done it again. I love this series. It's not just the wonderful story line, or the intriguing plot, or the perfect dialogue, or how easily relatable the characters are - all of those things are there for me. It's the acting! The acting is so damned good! How does Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar and the whole cast convey so much in a look, or a shrug, or in a thousand other ways? Did they learn by experience, is it the writing, or the sets, or the directing, or whatever else goes into producing a television series? I suspect it's all these things and much, much more. I'm certainly not a critic, and not much of a writer, but Unforgotten is superior television.

I watched this episode and kept waiting for this mother to say what advice she had sought from a doctor. She is clueless! Did it ever even once occur to her to get this child, AND HERSELF, some help?! As for the "boyfriend" looking for the numbers 666 in the child's hair - she fell for that hook, line, and sinker. And with such a disturbed child, a boyfriend should have been the last thing on her mind. This woman should be truly ashamed of herself - telling the world that she doesn't like her child, and hadn't done since he was a toddler, and after suffering a traumatic illness. She was a poor excuse for a mother, and doesn't seem to take any responsibility for the child's behavior. When the child first displayed signs of anger and behavioral issues, she should have sought help. It really seems like Derek never had a chance.