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Silent witness season 2211/21/2023 In the team’s day trip to Brighton in ‘To Brighton, To Brighton’, Samantha Bond’s late career changer DS Hannah Quicke is the best of a good bunch.The Fugitive Doctor herself pops up in ‘Lift Up Your Hearts’ and Jo Martin’s variation on the grieving mother theme is powerfully essayed, particularly through her work with the choir.In ‘Two Spirits’, her wife is denial is a little underused but still emotively done Jemima Rooper is one of those actors I’ve loved for a long time who by rights ought to be much more acclaimed.There’s even time for a quick sojourn to Brighton and cracking a bit of internal betrayal, it’s all very well done. Still, we’re entertained here by trans issues and the Troubles, street drugs and the opioid crisis, the inevitable corrupt police officers and the reputation of the Lyell being questioned yet again (as if the sainted Nikki would ever be allowed to do anything wrong). And new intern Alice, who gets to play a big part in the final case, is only introduced just beforehand which feels like a waste of Kiran Sonia Sawar (and also reduces the story’s emotional impact since she’s practically a stranger, qv Mexican intern Luisa from last season’s finale…). Series 22 of Silent Witness sees the crime procedural hit the impressive landmark of 200 episodes and after the highs of the previous season, it maintains a strong standard of storytelling that keeps it feeling fresh, even if it does tend to fall back on its regular crutches as it refuses to let hardly any characters recur beyond their single stories.Įven with Nikki having found love and managing to maintain a transatlantic relationship with Michael Landes’ US diplomat Matt from last time around, keeping him in Washington means he’s barely there. “Things don’t always conform to expectation” She made quite the impression during her eight-season tenure on the hit BBC drama, but sadly her actor Liz Carr isn’t expected to appear in person in the new series of Silent Witness.Series 22 of Silent Witness continues a rich vein of form as it hits 200 episodes of hot button topics There’s nothing quite like the spark of joy fans get when a former regular character returns to your favorite show and many of us might be hoping that The Greater Good Part 2 wasn’t the last we’ll ever see of Clarissa in Silent Witness. Is Clarissa in the new series of Silent Witness? And her portrayal of the brilliant forensic examiner will forever hold a place in many people's hearts. Since leaving her role as Clarissa in Silent Witness, Liz has starred in Netflix’s The OA and The Witcher, as well as FX thriller Devs. I was almost starting to resent that, because I wanted to do other things.” Silent Witness took nine months a year, so it did cut out an awful lot of projects that I would’ve loved to do. But I wanted to see who else I could play. Clarissa was very loved, and I don’t take the experience or the support that I got in that role for granted at all. Opening up to, Liz shared, “The job was a joy. To focus less on the dead and more on the living. I can’t imagine what it’s going to be like but with Mum’s death…I just know, deep down, that it’s time for me to move on. The forensic expert said, “I love my work here, working with you all. Clarissa Mullery departed at the end of the season 23 finale entitled The Greater Good Part 2. Whilst many fans might forever miss Clarissa in Silent Witness, there’s no mistaking how powerfully her exit from the forensic drama was handled and the character stated her reasons very clearly before departing the close-knit team. And according to Clarissa herself, it was nothing to do with hating the job - far from it - but Penny’s death had made her want to spend more time with the living after seven years working to get justice for the dead. “I’ve decided, it’s time for me to leave the Lyell,” she had declared, much to the shock of Thomas, Nikki and Jack in Silent Witness. Whilst she was shown to be incredibly affected by this tragedy, Clarissa had already announced she was resigning after her terminally-ill mother Penny passed away in the previous episode, Hope. Unfortunately, the protective suit couldn’t prevent him from feeling the effects of the nerve agent he was testing and Nikki and Clarissa watched from outside the sealed lab as Thomas died.
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