The whole episode focused on the aftermath of this latest abduction, never leaving the creepy woodland home where the quarryman lives with his overbearing mother and a wary nine-year-old daughter. Hidden, Series Finale, BBC Four review - a whydunnit, not a whodunnit . I’m not enough of a student of psychology to know if this is a trope or a known effect of bad mothering. Hidden continues at 9pm on BBC4, on Saturday, with previous episodes available on iPlayer. The series is mostly in Welsh, although the characters switch to English in certain situations. Find out more about the characters in Hidden He picked the wrong group to try to fit into. 1. View all posts by Virginia DeBolt. Hidden, Series Finale, BBC Four review - a whydunnit, not a whodunnit Welsh thriller is far more than a copycat procedural. Such gruelling viewing may not be for everyone, but subverting the usual blueprint suggests Hidden has ambitions that go beyond its impeccable influences. I like the main police team but but I do not like this backward story telling style at all. As well as a gorgeously gothic credits sequence, it features handsomely brooding landscapes, offbeat interior locations that go far beyond the usual bland corridors/offices of cop drama, and an ominous, skin-prickling soundtrack skilfully employed to heighten the sense of dread. Mia (Annes Elwy) is the alpha dog in the little gang of three. Some of the episodes were so dark that they were hard to watch. It’s sitting empty now. Word of a third season would be welcome news. The resemblance is still there, but they’ve switched the victims to men and the sociopathic killer to a young girl. Remember the house in the woods where the kidnapper in season 1 kept and tortured his captives? The passing of the torch almost seems deliberately planned. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Makes sense doesn't it? Hidden is perhaps the most confidently stylish and stylised yet. Beautiful and brooding landscapes, twists and turns... but the main reason I'm writing a review is because of the negative comments towards the use of the welsh language. 6 people found this helpful. Annes Elwy as Mia brings a new level of creepy to the definition of psychopath. Once they are on the right track, things heat up quickly. Await second season! Hidden also lifts a trick from The Fall, in that viewers know who the villain is early doors – Dylan Harris, a scruffy, scrawny local quarry worker tightly swaddled in workwear and trucker cap played with a nervy, haunted intensity by Rhodri Meilir. Cadi is such a wonk of a cop, we don’t even know if she likes women. Acting was good. Verified Purchase. Review: Hidden, season 2 Hidden, season 2, is a Welsh police procedural streaming on Acorn TV. My biggest laugh in the series, which doesn’t have many laughs, was when she brought the baby to the police station in a dirty diaper, put her in Owen’s arms, and walked out. With ramshackle buildings, clammy-walled stone dungeons and clamorous dog cages dominated by a huge gnarled tree in the courtyard, Harris’s creepy lair seemed like a cross between Follyfoot and compound in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Amid a current powerhouse run of Wales-set dramas (alongside Hinterland there have been the gothic chiller Requiem and the forthcoming second series of the Big Little Lies-style domestic noir Keeping Faith (Un Bore Mercher). This review may contain spoilers One of the best summer dramas with top notch acting. 3. If you haven’t seen season 1 yet, it would be a good place to start. Connor (Steffan Cennydd) is still in school. Or men. 4. What is an acceptable period of mourning before moving on from The Bridge? The Welsh crime drama ticks a lot of the Scandi-noir boxes, but with its bilingual edge and familiar scenery, it is weirdly wonderful in its own way, Last modified on Mon 2 Jul 2018 13.04 BST. That leads Cadi and Owen in the wrong direction at first. Gritty BBC crime drama Hidden is returning for a new season this month, the broadcaster has announced. After earning her stripes as a city cop, John has returned home to north Wales to keep a closer eye on her terminally ill father, a former local police chief. This could have very easily been a brand new series, and I don’t really understand why it has to tie to … This is a complete box set. Hidden starts season 2 soon after the end of season 1. Reviews of movies and TV focused on women. Sion Alun Davies and Sian Reese-Williams in Bridging the gap … Hidden (Craith). Connor is new in town and just wants to fit in somewhere. Could there be a link to other cases of young women disappearing? Read full review. Guardian (Chinese: 镇魂; pinyin: Zhèn Hún) is a 2018 Chinese web series starring Bai Yu and Zhu Yilong.An adaptation of the 2012 fantasy-danmei web novel of the same name by Priest, the series was released on the video platform Youku between June 13 and July 25, 2018. The Bridge series finale review – goodbye Saga Norén. It was lovely to hear the Welsh language spoken. Firstly, they're in Wales so they're speaking Welsh. With the whodunnit question answered, the dark pleasures of Hidden come from witnessing buried secrets getting exhumed – both personal and professional – and the nail-biting escalation of the cat-and-mouse game between John and Harris. The Welsh crime drama ticks a lot of the Scandi-noir boxes, but with its bilingual edge and familiar scenery, it is weirdly wonderful in its own way. Review of Season 2 of TV Show Condor showing on Sky One. The teacher they killed was once accused of inappropriate touching of a student. Alongside their work on the case, Craith/Hidden series two will also delve into the personal lives of DCI John and DS Vaughan, the former coping with the recent death of … Balance is everything in a show like this, and the balance feels ever-so-slightly off in the new season. It’s atmospheric – oozing with damp and rain and Welsh gloom. Hidden (Welsh: Craith) is a Welsh television drama serial, created by Mark Andrew and Ed Talfan. Like Norén and her irregular team-ups with the Danish police, John finds herself adjusting to life in an unfamiliar work environment, although, rather than a series of elaborate cross-border slayings involving an 8km-long bridge, her relocation is for personal reasons. An exceptionally compelling bilingual drama. Hidden – a bilingual BBC4 thriller set among the bleak peaks and ashen woodland of Snowdonia – could provide some welcome nicotine gum for Saga Norén addicts. Review: Hidden (Craith) Series 2 BBC 1 Wales By Vic Mills. Hidden, season 2, is a Welsh police procedural streaming on Acorn TV. This season’s investigation starts with the murder of a retired male teacher. HIDDEN series 2 could be coming to BBC 4 in late summer next year, if it gets the green light. Was interesting tho … Episode guide, trailer, review, preview, cast list and where to stream it on demand, on catch up and download. More a what will happen next than a who dunnit. If you don't like a dark, slow story… Dickinson is now a bit calmer and more sure … She's Old Ain't Dead! Find out when Hidden is on TV, including Series 1-Episode 2. Enter your email address to receive notifications of new posts by email. Owen, on the other hand, gets grief from his wife because he isn’t around home enough to help out with the baby. God we'll miss you, Forget Scandi: the natural home of dark drama is Wales now, Sian Reese-Williams and Sion Alun Davies in Craith/Hidden. Max Irons was hardly a Bourne-style action hero, but he was a pretty good nerdy analyst on-the-run (a hell of a lot better than Krasinski's Jack Ryan, who soon devolved into Bond), but he's way out of his depth here, called upon to follow the hopscotch of the plot with its commensurate emotional arc, never … Depressing. If you like these things ^, this is the show for you. 4.0 out of 5 stars Well-made foreign series on the dark side. Mia took Conner there one night and gave him a lesson in evil. The beloved Scandi-noir drama, wrapped up its fourth and final season on BBC2 on Friday night, and it managed to be nerve-shredding, sorrowful and quietly optimistic – the sort of finale that leaves a mark. The Hidden Secrets Saga box set 1-6 Review A great paranormal read about hunters (Decendants of Angels) and Grollics (a version of Werewolves) for the young adult and older. She’s clever, well read. Despite the loopholes and divergences from the source material, the drama is worth watching thanks to the acting of two main leads especially Zhu Yi Long, who knows how to subtly convey the micro changes on his face and a great range of emotions. We also travel through the story with the three young people responsible for the killing. Another call back to season 1 was a brief conversation Owen had with the last kidnap victim – the one who survived. Helpful. It does provide a motive for Mia to want to hurt and punish. Report abuse. Hidden is now halfway through its eight-episode run, and if the first three instalments felt like enough to get a decent handle on John’s character – driven, fearless and determined to do right by the missing girls, even if her shiftless partner DS Owen Vaughn (Sion Alun Davies) seemed rather less invested – episode four veered off into an unexpected direction. That provided a nice Easter egg of levity in this dark drama. She’s absolutely compelling in every scene, drawing both the camera and the actors around her into her orbit of danger. That’s when the body of young Mali Pryce is pulled out of a river in Snowdonia National Park and a cold missing person case from 2011 becomes unexpectedly hot. Creepy, atmospheric if a little slow at times. One Mississippi Amazon Prime In the last few years there’s been a tendency for TV comedies to deal with more serious subject matter, but One Mississippi takes the sadcomto the next level – a quasi-autobiographical show which deals with Cadi’s sisters are nearby. The 6 episodes of the season take us along with the police as they search through the clues. Mia’s cousin Lee (Sion Eifion) is her muscle, her driver, and a willing thrill seeker. I am two episodes in and so far it's everything you want. We know from the start who the killers are. It was initially broadcast in Welsh on the Welsh-language channel S4C under its Welsh name Craith.The bilingual version of the series, under the English name Hidden, was broadcast on BBC One Wales and BBC Four.Two series have aired, in 2018 and 2019, with a third one due to be … Hidden could be the perfect replacement. Loved the show and season of Hidden! For the most part the tone is consistent with the first series and the script nearly as tight, but there are moments where the jokes lack the subtlety – a … Detectives Cadi John (Sian Reese-Williams) and Owen Vaughan (Sion Alun Davies) investigate the murder of a former schoolteacher in this compelling Welsh crime drama. Promo shots of star Sian Reese-Williams as Detective Inspector Cadi John also seemed to play up the character’s physical resemblance to Saga, with tousled blonde centre-parted hair, a piercing, fearless stare and a sturdy green jacket, suitable for pursuing twisted perpetrators over hill and dale (although DI John is more about oxblood DMs than leather trousers). Both Mia and The Fall’s Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) had mommy issues. Season 2. This is more of a human drama than a crime thriller, and the show finds a lot of success by striking that tone. and the story is the "how did he get here". 'Hidden' Season 2 Review: A top-notch Welsh murder whydunit that reflects on society's often-ignored problems The violent death of a local retired chemistry teacher grips the mining town in the slate-strewn mountains of Blaenau Ffestiniog March 5, 2020 admin 1 Comment. In one scene in a shop where much of the action took place, the shop girl Beca (Lois Elenid) was reading a novel by Caryl Lewis. Reboot: The Guardian Code Season 2 bears very little resemblance to the original series, apart from some stylistic similarities and a few shared characters.It feels like this is a show designed to trade on the nostalgia of the original; why else would you use the name? Physical evidence suggests Mali was imprisoned for years before her death – could John be dealing with a Room-style abduction? In the first episode she meets a new pathologist (Mali Tudno Jones) who flirts with her quite openly. With its second season, Hidden builds on the foundation that the first season created and finds a way to make a larger point about those who suffer. “Writing the second series of Hidden was a great opportunity to visit one of those small towns and examine a complex cultural and socio-economic setting,” explains series writer Caryl Lewis. 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