Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

blanche-2 "Hidden" is a four-part British thriller starring Philip Glenister and Thekla Reuten.The story is wild, one of those government corruption tales. Government corruption is feasible, and in real life there were riots in Britain and resignations of officials. But there were other elements of this plot that put it on the fanciful side.Glenister is Harry Ven, a solicitor, is asked by attorney Gina Hawkes (Reuten) to find a alibi witness for her client. This witness also has information about Ven's late brother Mark 20 years earlier.The plot takes off from there into a political conspiracy. This includes a plan to take over the government by a billionaire. He has an assassination bureau that gets rid of anyone in their way.David Suchet plays Sir Nigel Fountain, a relative of Hawkes', and he's amazing. At first I didn't recognize him.The end is a downer because it really doesn't end. There's ambiguous and there's nothing - this was nothing.The acting was good, with Philip Glenister attractive in a disheveled kind of way and totally believable.Okay.

jc-osms Improbably plotted, but well shot and acted, this four-part BBC thriller held me pretty much to attention throughout even as the convolutions and implausibilities of the piece occasionally had me scratching my head in disbelief and or incredulity.With a plot taking in little bits of "The 39 Steps", "The Manchurian Candidate" and the more recent TV thriller "State Of Play", its veracity boosted by the stranger-than-fiction subsequent real life events of the background summer riots in Britain and right now the Eurozone Crisis forcing the resignations of the Greek and Italian Prime Ministers, it hands Philip Glenister a meaty role as a seedy solicitor with a murky past caught up in events which inveigled his presumed-dead brother, two brutal sets of family murders from 20 years ago and a modern day coup dreamed up a shady billionaire financier and his mysterious female collaborator, who have at their control a secret "assassination bureau" who take out opponents and hindrances with clinical ease except of course when it's Glenister's Harry Venn and Thekla Reuten as his beautiful confederate as Gina Hawkes, like him drawn into the matter by events of the past.The stuff about the secret army doesn't wash, the setting up of the coup is likewise too fanciful, there are too many plot-holes with a slightly over-egged but still anti-climactic ending but Glenister convinces throughout and keeps you watching. The action sequences are well handled with some memorable set-pieces inserted, particularly a through-a-door killing late on but by the time you're left with the final image of Glenister gazing confusedly into space, it's more than likely your face will share that look too.

ldlazarus I enjoyed the acting, Philip Glenister reminded me more of an updated "Callan", disheveled, unshaven, half asleep etc.. It was good to see David Suchet out of his "Poirot" skin for a while, although I had hoped to see more of a role for him. Anna Chancellor is a fine actress who I have seen do justice to many roles was underused,given her talents. Nevertheless the cast was well thought out and worked well together.The storyline was another matter. The plot zig-zagged all over the place. I appreciate the need for suspense, but many questions went unanswered. Why were Gina's parents killed? (Because they were a brilliant legal team?) What had the earlier crime, the killing at Braddock House have to to do with the events 20 years later? Maybe I missed something but there seemed to be quite a few loose ends that never got resolved. And, what happened to Elspeth? The ending was not satisfying. Maybe there will be a fifth episode.Or perhaps a new PI series based upon Philip Glenister's character. With a better plot and no loose strings, it could probably go somewhere.

mgould23 I was looking forward to this, some reasonably good write ups in the paper, probably by critics who never watched it. David Suchet, Philip Glenister are usually very good, not in this. I thought it would be something on par with 'Shadow Line'.Unfortunately it didn't live up to expectations. Glenister is no babe magnet, so his attempt to be a Bond type in pursuit of Thekla Reuten was pathetic.I lost interest after two episodes, the script being patchy, with the usual flashbacks keeping you wondering why the hell they need so many of these. They are great if they are done properly as in 'Shadow Line', in 'Hidden' I couldn't see the need for any. The acting was hammish and as it went on it just became more boring. I guess it might be enjoyed by Glenister fans, but it really isn't very good.It was too long after two episodes so be prepared for a marathon.