A Shaky Beginning with a Phenomenal Payoff
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“Season one is finished and I need to say right now you need to stick with it. Despite the flaws that were in the early first season I’m happy to say it came into its own and outshined itself and the high points of the story are definitely worth sticking through the growing pains.
I won’t lie, the show has its problems in the beginning and midpoint of the series. Some characters annoying at first, some flat, the story drags at times, but very few shows can really hit the ground running and The Hidden People had to grow the beard twice: once for establishing the lovable human characters and hinting at the plot points to come, and once for establishing Arcadia and its world of human trafficking elves and cackling witches and magic and mayhem. Both times, the execution gets so much better and you identify with these characters and make sense of this world.
You see Mackenna go from gloomy and avoidant and apathetic about everything to a cocky hero who believably needs adjustment time to adapt and accept herself. Alfie, who at least a few people have called the JarJar Binks early on for his role as comic relief? His chemistry with the group, loyalty, and willingness to get serious shine through after a while and it is glorious to behold. Thomas’s perfectness goes from kind of grating to a necessity as their rational world falls apart, and he faces a genuine crisis as he struggles to stop something too engraved in tradition and magic for him to see a clear solution. Other characters who don’t particularly fit in well wind up either radically changed or dropped as the momentum picks up without them. Every character develops together, and you get an idea of not only the main characters’ personalities and chemistry but how vast and dangerous and despicable the world of the eponymous fairies is to the point that in those last few episodes, it is an exciting binge to see how it ends.
Season one ended on a bittersweet cliffhanger, with most of the big conflicts of the season resolved but leaving us with enough dangling plot threads and with our heroes in enough immediate danger to make the wait for season two almost unbearable. If you like mystery, character drama, or especially urban fantasy, give The Hidden People a listen and stick. With. It. It’s gonna be a good one.”
ZacksQuest via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/21/19
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