King of Logic, AP, on Masterpiece "Unforgotten" episode 5.

In a different thread I commented on this miniseries of Unforgotten. I enjoy a murder mystery as a logic puzzle and to see if the story hangs together, logically. Usually the stories fail, due to time constraints, the timeline is off. For so many of these stories would require more than a Olympic athelete running under a world record marathon race. And one of the very most broken logic of many bad stories is that the amount of activity undertaken in one day of time. Some Hollywood murder mystery tales leaves one with the impression, the murder took place in the afternoon, in late afternoon of same day they are interviewing a witness across the continent, and by evening the case is in court and by nightfall the case is ended.

But in this series of Unforgotten a new dilemma arose in logic. That the murder was 30 years ago and victim placed in a freezer, two separate freezers for 30 years. Not that this is impossible in practice, for several murders involved freezing the victim/s that were recorded in newspapers. But this does not hang together logically if 4 persons were the murders, police officers in training and illogical to think that the body would not be discovered in 30 years.

Logically, one would think that a frozen murdered body would be discovered and discovered quickly. So does Unforgotten answer these illogical freezer burial?

So today, Sunday 8Aug2021 is episode 5 "Cassie and Sunny interview two of the suspects again and get closer to the truth" reads the TV guide.

So, most murder mysteries for me dealt with a logic analysis near the end of the show, to see if pieces fit together snugly in terms of logic.

Here I have the reverse, of ---whoa-- at the start someone kills another and packs them into a freezer. And how precarious is that for never being discovered. Would not the murderer or murderers want to get the body into a more "undiscoverable location"?

So in these last remaining episodes, my attention is more focused on not who did it or why, but what type of circumstances does this story tale provide for a freezer burial.

My guess is, that the story ends with not a single mention or justification for why a freezer burial for 30 years. And that is Hollywood or BBC for you, in that tv makes up any type of story convenient for the storyteller, absent of logic.

Perhaps BBC will surprise me, and have a logical answer as to a 30 year freezer burial. Maybe the murderer was in the freezer business and was going to scrap the freezer in his business, but unexpectedly died himself, before disposing of the freezer and its contents.

So, I need to see some logic as to this freezer burial, more than who did it.

And some frozen murders are for the purpose of eating the victim. Some are for the purpose of seeing their spouse, not murdered by dying of natural causes and be able to see them as years roll by-- open the freezer. (Actual news reports).

So, what is the Unforgotten going to do-- will it hang together logically? Or will it fail miserably on the question of a freezer burial? If it fails miserably, I have second thoughts of spending time on further episodes of Unforgotten. I do not like poorly stitched together stories.

AP

Well, saw the last episode. Excellent drama, excellent acting, fine story, but for me, fails in logic. The story -- in 6 episodes-- starts out with a decapitated body found in a freezer, and somewhere in the story plot line should explain why criminal/s put the body in a freezer. Should explain that for the silly goofy reason of leaving a murdered body in a freezer for 30 years for surely, that freezer would highly likely be opened and the police involved.

Perhaps if they remake this series, they could easily slip into the drama, where they question the crime-family boss who murdered the victim by stabbing him in the brain with a fountain pen, that he reveals his family decapitated him and stuck into a freezer to dispose of later but just let it pass by.

A great story has to also be logically sound.

AP, King of Science, especially Physics