I could not believe I missed ‘Hinterland’ last night I must have had one of those blank moments, so all praise the iPlayer the saviour of the day.
The base storyline surrounds DCI Tom Mathias (Richard Harrington) on the run from his London past who brilliantly plays a troubled man isolating himself in a town filled with secrets as dark and destructive as his own. Collaborating with the intelligent and complex DI Mared Rhys (Mali Harries), they form an engaging relationship as they embark on solving cases that involve the ultimate anti-social crime, murder, in Aberystwyth.
It was a brilliant finale DCI Mathias at his investigative best as a long-standing story line concluded. It was in and out stuff I was blindsided a few times who I thought was this or that turned out to be something else altogether. I had my ideas of who was involved in the child abuse and was right on the big fish from the first time he slithered onto the screen.
He had the face of someone with secrets to hide using blackmail to hide himself away but trying to blackmail DCI Mathias was always going to backfire as he continued with the case to the bitter end.
The story of Devil's Bridge and a children's home was part of the very first opening episode with DCI Mathias investigating a blood soaked bathroom and the disappearance of 64 year old Helen Jenkins. His inquiries focused on the home above the ravine spanned by the Devil's Bridge and child abuse was always swilling around.
The rumours of child abuse at the children’s home was getting louder and louder throughout the series has children now adults committed suicide or killed under mysterious circumstances and the more DCI Mathias and team.
Hinterland clearly intends to bring some Scandinavian darkness to the coast of Ceredigion in the world of subtitled drama. Filmed in Welsh/English surely the way to go with the content of S4C. Get the box set or checkout the iPlayer.
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