History Series / Unforgettable

** [[spoiler:As of the season 1 finale, TheyDo.]]

** TheChick - Saunders (who is a good cop, but not as smart as Nina, or as badass as Al or Mike)

* YourCheatingHeart: {{Subverted}} in "Throwing Shade". Eliot suspects his wife was having an affair with the BodyOfTheWeek, an old, old friend of his, because their movements line up for months on end. The relationship turns out to be close, but completely platonic--he was a shoulder to cry on but not a lover.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Eliot. [[spoiler:It turns out he's actually known about Carrie's sideline as moonlighting gambler and hasn't fired her because she's that good at her job.]]

* SeamlessSpontaneousLie: A murder suspect, while being interrogated by the cops, realizes that they have discovered that the murder scene was staged, so he has to come up with a new story to distract the detectives. He uses the "[[LineOfSightName take names from the bulletin board]]" technique to tell a believable story and the detectives spend a fair chunk of time chasing this red herring.

''Unforgettable'' is a TV series featuring Poppy Montgomery as Carrie Wells, a policewoman who can [[PhotographicMemory remember everything she's experienced]] in her life, except the details of her sister's death.

* NewYorkCityCops: Carrie and Al started out in Syracuse, however.

''Unforgettable'' is a TV series featuring Poppy Montgomery as Carrie Wells, a policewoman who can [[PhotographicMemory remember everything she's experienced]] in her life, except the details of her sister's death. Initially only got one season (2011-2012), but Creator/{{CBS}} UnCanceled the show for a summer run starting August 2013 to stop it from moving to Creator/{{TNT}} or Creator/{{Lifetime}}; it ran for two shorter runs before being axed in October 2014. It was {{uncanceled}} a second time by A&E for a fourth season, which ended in another cancellation in February 2016.

* {{Retool}}: Due to being canceled, then UnCanceled a season and a half later, season 2 and on have completely different sets and replaced most of the supporting cast, and have dropped Carrie's MythArc in favor of a straight BodyOfTheWeek format.

* CowboyCop: Carrie, due to her ability, and to Al's everlasting irritation.

The show has now finished its third season. Spoilers for seasons one and two may not be hidden below.

''Unforgettable'' is a TV series featuring Poppy Montgomery as Carrie Wells, a policewoman who can [[PhotographicMemory remember everything she's experienced]] in her life, except the details of her sister's death. Initially only got one season (2011-2012), but Creator/{{CBS}} UnCanceled the show for a summer run starting August 2013 to stop it from moving to Creator/{{TNT}} or Creator/{{Lifetime}}; it ran for two shorter runs before being axed in October 2014. It was {{uncanceled}} a second time by A&E for a fourth season.

** Dr. Webster's getting in on the act, though it's understandable. She's played by [[SaturdayNightLive Jane]] [[ThirdRockFromTheSun Curtin]].

* UnexplainedAccent: Carrie suddenly develops one in "Friended". Five episodes of a standard [[AmericanAccents Midwestern]] accent, and in this episode, she has a noticeable Southern drawl.

** To ''Literature/Carrie'' in a scene where she is talking to a guy about who had the worst prom:

* CuttingTheKnot: {{Lampshaded}}. Faced with an [[TheCracker anarchist hacker]] who likes to reference GreekMythology and is about to wreck the financial system from his computer, Carrie asks him if he's heard of the Gordian knot. He answers with the trope namer, and she demonstrates by shooting his laptop.

''Unforgettable'' was a TV series featuring Poppy Montgomery as Carrie Wells, a policewoman who can [[PhotographicMemory remember everything she's experienced]] in her life, except the details of her sister's death. Initially only got one season (2011-2012), but Creator/{{CBS}} UnCanceled the show for a summer run starting August 2013 to stop it from moving to Creator/{{TNT}} or Creator/{{Lifetime}}; it ran for two shorter runs before being axed in October 2014.

The show has now finished its third season and final season. Spoilers for seasons one and two may not be hidden below.

''Unforgettable'' was a TV series featuring Poppy Montgomery as Carrie Wells, a policewoman who can [[PhotographicMemory remember everything she's experienced]] in her life, except the details of her sister's death. Initially only got one season (2011-2012), but Creator/{{CBS}} UnCanceled the show for a summer run starting August 2013 to stop it from moving to Creator/{{TNT}} or Creator/{{Lifetime}}; it run for two shorter runs before being axed in October 2014.

* BlessedWithSuck: Carrie's PhotographicMemory makes her an excellent investigator but also means that she will never be able to forget any details of the grisly crimes she comes across. She also has issues with personal relationships since she cannot really "forgive and forget" when a relationship goes sour on her.

* BroughtDownToNormal: In "DOA" Carrie is poisoned, which has the side effect of interfering with her memory.

* PhotographicMemory: The core premise of the show is that Carrie never forgets anything she experiences. A lot of emphasis is placed on the fact that she can go over a memory in her mind multiple times and reexamine it for details she missed originally. The ability is portrayed both as a great gift and a curse since she will always perfectly remember the best moments of her life but will also never forget the grisly details of the crimes she investigates.
** RealitySubtext: Carrie doesn't just have photographic memory, but rather, ''Hyperthymesia'', which is a WordOfGod fact. The difference between the hyperthymesia and photographic memory is that hyperthymesia tends to go "one step further": in addition to perfect recalling of images, senses including scents, sounds, taste, and the like, as well as events and conversations, are recalled with ease, whereas photographic memory is more often than not entirely visual. This is demonstrated in several episodes when Carrie can recall odors and muffled gun shots that allowed her to determine where they were shot from at the crime scene. As of now, a mere ''twenty'' cases of hyperthymesia are confirmed to exist.

''Unforgettable'' is a TV series featuring Poppy Montgomery as Carrie Wells, a policewoman who can [[PhotographicMemory remember everything she's experienced]] in her life, except the details of her sister's death. Initially only got one season (2011-2012), but Creator/{{CBS}} UnCanceled the show for a summer run starting August 2013 to stop it from moving to Creator/{{TNT}} or Creator/{{Lifetime}}.

The show has now finished its third season. Spoilers for seasons one and two may not be hidden below.

''Unforgettable'' is a TV series featuring Poppy Montgomery as Carrie Wells, a policewoman who can [[PhotographicMemory remember everything she's experienced]] in her life, except the details of her sister's death. Initially only got one season (2011-2012), but CBS UnCanceled the show for a summer run starting August 2013 to stop it from moving to Creator/{{TNT}} or Creator/{{Lifetime}}.

As the series starts, Carrie, a former homicide detective with the Syracuse, New York police department, is living in New York City making her money by using her talent to break the bank at underground casinos. When her neighbor downstairs is stabbed to death, however, she encounters her former supervisor and lover Al Burns, now a lieutenant with the NYPD and the investigating detective. She assists in solving this first murder and Al recruits her into his unit afterwards.

* CallBack: The images Eliot shows Carrie of herself at several underground casinos are actually stills from the series pilot.