Want up-to-the-minute entertainment news and features? Email This BlogThis! monitoring_string = "df292225381015080a5c6c04a6e2c2dc". Hidden Series 2: Acorn TV & BBC’s Addictive Crime Noir Thriller Returns. Both Hidden (Craith) and The Fall have a female cop in the lead. During a busy first episode, we also see the lives of university student Megan Ruddock (Gwyneth Keyworth), who self-harms and appears to be on the verge of killing herself, and nurse Lowri Driscoll (Lois Meleri-Jones) who is being stalked by an unknown person. They find several that are young and dark-haired like the newest cases. I’m seeing comparisons of this series with The Bridge, but I found it very much like The Fall, which I recapped here. A special compound was built in a remote area of the woods to be the home of the kidnapper and the basement where he kept his stolen women. Another refreshing aspect of Hidden is that compared to the sometimes dour-looking crime dramas set in London, its Snowdonia setting makes for some truly spectacular backdrops to the dark crimes playing out in front of them. WWE 2020 Draft – who is on Raw and SmackDown? However, when the body of a young woman is found in a local river, Cadi's world - and the world around her - is changed forever. 'Hidden' Season 2 Review: A top-notch Welsh murder whydunit that reflects on society's often-ignored problems . She’s a suicidal young university woman. She’s a horrible woman who scarred her son in many ways. She has two sisters who live in the area: Elin (Nia Roberts) and Bethan (Megan Llyn). thank you! The lack of filigree extends to the cop story, which stands out for what it doesn’t have: no sexual tension, no secret maneuvering, no pitched battles with superiors, no officers in jeopardy. Hidden (Craith) is set in North Wales. The passing of the torch almost seems deliberately planned. Cadi and Owen have a great working relationship. We'll have to wait and see if it reaches Keeping Faith levels, but it's a sharp twist on your typical crime thriller and a 'hidden' gem that's well worth unearthing. Both Hidden (Craith) and The Fall have a female cop in the lead. The investigation draws Cadi and Owen deeper into the troubled lives of these young mysterious characters – as they uncover a world of lies, revenge, cruelty, and neglect. From that point things move faster and with more suspense. A female cop and her partner hunt down a serial kidnapper of young women. The resemblances to “Broadchurch” — along with “Happy Valley” the current reference point for non-London British cop shows — remain on the surface, though. I was thrilled to get this tweet from Hidden writer Mark Andrew. In episode 1, we see a young woman on the edge of a cliff next to a waterfall. they have agency (even the victims). Her mother was one of Dylan’s victims. (There are two relatively sympathetic male characters, but even they have their foibles. She refers to them as whores and bitches. She’s obviously running from the man who comes up behind her. In this second series we have a nasty murder and a group of bullies who murder DCI Cada John played by Sian Reese-Williams, returns as the chief of detectives in their small area. (Hopefully it'll have a more nuanced explanation for Dylan's killing of women than just the fact he's got an abusive mother – we've not been shown the whole series yet.). She watches everything that happens from her upstairs bedroom window. What makes “Hidden” work — what keeps you involved and even, by the end, moved — is the show’s determination to present these stock, potentially lurid elements with an absolute minimum of titillation or sensationalism. Others were filmed twice – once completely in Welsh, once completely in English. “Hidden” has other things on its mind, like the suffocating, brutalizing aspects of life in its otherwise beautiful setting. ©2020 All Rights Reserved Copyright. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest. We’ve got another contender for the next “Broadchurch.”. The body is identified as 16-year-old Mali Pryce, who disappeared five years ago, and there are signs that she was held somewhere for that entire time, before escaping and dying in the process. Sian Reese-Williams, left, and Sion Alun Davies in “Hidden,” now streaming on Acorn TV. Both use repetitive musical themes to propel the story. For many episodes there’s no connection between Megan and the kidnapping cases, but the two plot lines intersect eventually. i look forward to season 2. (It’s available in several other places, as well.) We know every storyline is going to be linked eventually, but the strong aspect of Hidden is that instead of getting drip-fed the information in expository flashbacks, we'll be exploring the twists of the case as they happen from both sides. Meanwhile, Owen adjusts to caring for his newborn baby girl. You'd be forgiven for thinking that what would follow over the course of the series would be Cadi and her partner DS Owen Vaughan (Sion Alun Davies) investigating the murder, filled with the usual red herrings, but Hidden isn't interested in that. The definitive site for Reviews, Trailers, Showtimes, and Tickets The captivity scenes are shot and played straight, with no attempts to trick us or jolt us, and they’re harder to watch because of it. You want her to succeed – even if you know that she probably won't get a resolution quickly, you'll want to spend time in her company. This latest gritty series from the award-winning co-creator and producer of the global hit Y Gwyll/Hinterland, Ed Talfan, marks the return of cunning, unflappable detectives: newly-promoted DCI Cadi John (Sian Reese-Williams, Emmerdale, Line of Duty, Hinterland) and DS Owen Vaughan (Siôn Alun Davies, Hinterland,) as they unlock dark secrets in a mining town in the slate-strewn mountains of Blaenau Ffestiniog. “The three young people ricochet through the storyline and commit what seems to be a senseless act of violence. One contemplates cheating on his pregnant girlfriend, and the other, because he’s terminally ill, speaks almost entirely in egregious, sub-poetic declamations. Death doesn’t get more picturesque. Hidden airs on Wednesdays on BBC One Wales and Saturdays on BBC Four, as well as being available on BBC iPlayer. I must mention Mark Lewis Jones, who often shows up in Welsh language series. I’m seeing comparisons of this series with The Bridge, but I found it very much like The Fall, which I recapped here.. Copy to Clipboard (Severn Screen and all3Media international) Spoilers for 'Hidden' Season 2. Bracing yourself and trying not to judge. RELATED: Exclusive Dead Still Clip From Acorn TV’s Original Dark Comedy Drama Series, “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. BBC Wales and S4C's crime thriller Hidden has made its bilingual debut, after its Welsh run as Craith, and is worth discovering. The Welsh was subtitled. I thought that was an interesting twist in the investigation, especially because she went to Cadi with her hunch and Cadi listened to her. Series 2 was filmed back-to-back in Welsh and English – the all-Welsh version Craith premiered on Wales’ S4C in November 2019 and the English/Welsh version premiered on BBC One Wales and BBC Four in February 2020. Acorn TV will feature the bilingual version, with English subtitles. She never leaves the compound. She manages to get away. She is very competent, intelligent, work horse with issue of her own. Thanks for bringing it up. “Hidden,” an eight-episode crime drama that began streaming Monday on Acorn TV, fits the template, particularly with regard to scenery. Enter your email address to receive notifications of new posts by email. As soon as he loses the girl who jumped from the cliff, he’s stalking another woman. It all starts off fairly typical police procedural fare. As their lives – and the investigation – unravel, they soon find out there is nowhere to hide. Reese-Williams's engaging performance also means that Cadi is an instantly likeable lead too, someone with relatable problems who's trying to do the best for everyone in her life, as well as the people she's trying to get justice for. Much like Dylan, her scars stem from her relationship with her mother. In both series we know from the start who the kidnapper/killer is. In both series we know from the start who the kidnapper/killer is. The execution of “Hidden,” scene to scene, is artful but not particularly original — the standard devices of both the buttoned-down cop drama and the creepy backwoods horror tale are right up front. When the police identify the woman in the river, and add in the attempted kidnapping of the nurse, they start to dig back through missing women cases. Dylan’s 8 year old daughter Nia (Elodie Wilton) lives with them. We get into the personal lives of these two police officers. 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