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Unforgotten: the Clues in the Titles and Why Every Detail Matters

Warning: contains spoilers for Unforgotten series 1-3 “You’d be surprised,” says Peter Anderson, creative director of the studio behind the title sequences for hit ITV crime drama Unforgotten. “You can show something really on-the-nose, and people won’t get it until they’ve been told. We fret and worry about giving too much away but the clue is only triggered when you know the context.” Each 40-second title sequence for Unforgotten is a curated collection of purpose-filmed scenes designed to go where the drama can’t – namely, inside the characters’ heads. Every series starts with the discovery of a long-buried body, then introduces viewers to a…
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Behind Her Eyes: the Book Detail Too Nasty for the Netflix Show

Warning: contains spoilers for Behind Her Eyes book and TV series. There’s a cheekily knowing moment in the finale of Behind Her Eyes, a new Netflix thriller with a monumental twist you won’t want spoiled, so look away now if you’ve not seen it. Marianne (played by The Last Kingdom’s Eva Birthistle) is narrating a flashback to the events that forced Adele and David (Eve Hewson and Tom Bateman) to leave Brighton and relocate to Islington. The owner of a café close to David’s psychiatry practise, Marianne had platonically befriended David and, recognising his sadness, encouraged him to make a change and leave his…
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