Hidden Assets - RTE

well it's a canadian co production kids just gone Vancouver with dad . next season in Canada ?

I still don't get how they concluded that there was another terrorist on the way let alone identify him - the columbian embassy basically gave them all the records of all their inmates. Sure there could have been other staged deaths but the way they leaped from the first terrorist being a staged death in columbia to possibly/maybe another person having their death staged to -specifically- this person definitely being on the way to Belgium for bombs is over the top for me.

The safety deposit boxes, that's where all the other batches of diamonds were hidden.

It's nicely wrapped up in a bow ready for another series alright. Next CAB case will have links with Canada, and Emer will just happen to run into the Melnicks over there!

A few more credibility stretchers in that episode - by far the biggest being a foreign police officer demanding she be armed there and then, because she doesn't want to be left out of the action 🤣

Overall, 10 times better than Kin (not that that's hard), a decent watch, I'll give it about 6/10.

I was more surprised that the vault manager just agreed to give them access - I thought the whole point of safe deposit boxes was that that were basically inviolable, and the police would have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get at them!

It was OK in parts. The bit with trying to talk down the suicide bomber was well done but the bit before that with the mom and the daughter was awful.

The part where Bibi's swipe card wouldn't work at the car park was very lazy too, especially when they used the exact same trope earlier in the season.

Plot was too much of a mess too. Disappointing as it started well

You appear pathalogically obsessed with Kin, not only on its thread but with every third post here. The producers must have wronged you somehow.

Irrespective of your opinion it was an enormous public and critical success. 623,000 viewers an episode in Ireland alone. No figures yet for the US, Canada and the Netherlands. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and lauded in the Irish media. You're fighting a losing battle on this one.

Hidden Assets decent, room for further stuff but they need a new scriptwriter.

fine for a Sunday night - started well and then maybe 2 episodes ago got a bit convoluted and stayed that way. By the end just felt like it fizzled out. I'd watch a second season.

Bordering-on-fanatical praise for Kin in the face of multiple opinions (and that's all any of us have at the end of the day) of the opposite. Almost unanimous, in fact.

Maybe you need to take your own advice!

What on earth is your obsession with defending Kin?

It's just bizarre.

I can only conclude that you're a producer, or the writer, or one of the backers, or something.

We'll have to agree to disagree (and you're disagreeing with a lot of people!)

No, just deluded 😁

I liked Kin - there: I've said it!! Going back to the subject of this thread, I enjoyed Hidden Assets overall. There were a few stretches in credulity along the way, but that's okay. I was a bit disappointed that all the loose ends were not fully resolved at the end, such as the police finding out who was really behind the bonbings, etc. - we did but not the police! That possibly suggests that there might be a second series.

More than one poster referred to the actress who played Bibi. Her name is Simone Kirby. As regards previous roles in Irish tv dramas, she was in Pure Mule, Love/Hate (relatively briefly), Clean Break, Single Handed, Resistance and Rebellion. She has also turned up on some British dramas including Silent Witness, Houdini and Doyle, Dark Heart and Peaky Blinders. Simone Kirby has been in a number of feature films, her best known being Jimmy's Hall, where she had a leading role. Crime drama films that she appeared in include: England is Mine and Calm with Horses (Irish).

Despite Morrissey becoming a famously grump racist England Is Mine not yet a crime drama. And not that great either.

Thanks or the info on Simone Kirby, probably the best actor in Hidden Assets.

OK, you (and a load of critics and a lot of the general public, so you say, although my andecdotal evidence would beg to differ) thought it was brilliant.

We (most of us posting on boards, and most of the people I know who watched it) thought it was shite.

Can we leave it at that, and move on? Please? It's getting tiresome now.

God you're like a dog with a bone.

I expressed an opinion. It disagrees with yours.

That's all.

I'm out.

Not a bad guess with two episodes to go. I wish it was down to brainpower but I think it’s more about lazy plotting on their behalf and obvious pointers. The Colombian stuff also made no sense, there are enough desperate individuals in Europe who’d sacrifice themselves to take care of their families without the need to import them from a South American prison and all the trouble that entails.

I’d also guess a second season is coming, but no more unless they switch to an entirely different plot.