Unforgettable - Pilot, S01E01

While Unforgettable is certainly a much better title than The Rememberer, that will not stop this show from ending up cancelled by the end of season 1.

I say this not because it is a bad show. Certainly the premise - pairing up a person with a gift with a cop - is one that tends to be popular, and a woman with perfect memory could contribute in very interesting ways. Plus, it was decently acted. I quite enjoyed Poppy Montgomery's portrayal of Carrie Wells.

But solid acting and an interesting premise will not be enough. We've already learnt that Carrie has a complicated past involving her sister's murder - a day which was unlike any other in that the details of it do in fact elude her. It's very dark. And there was little humour lightening that darkness, both in the characters and in the stories.

Which means that audiences like me, fans of shows like The Mentalist and Castle, are not likely to want to add it to our watch list when our other Cop+Special Helper dramas are equally dark and already have us nice and hooked.

So while I might be interested in watching another episode of the show, if only to see how Carrie's superb memory helps when she isn't actually the witness of the murder, I'm not hooked.

Unless something truly unforgettable happens within the next couple episodes, I predict that the show will have a mediocre audience rating which will slowly decline into cancellation. Unfortunate, but that's just the way it goes sometimes.