TV review: Off-beat and funny moments and other nice touches in Hidden Assets crime drama

I like the dynamic between them — he’s raffish and European, with unpredictable hair, while Emer is like his vaguely flirty Mammy with a glint in her eye
TV review: Off-beat and funny moments and other nice touches in Hidden Assets crime drama

Angeline Ball as Emer Berry and Wouter Hendrickx as Christian De Jong in Hidden Assets

There's a scene in the first episode of Hidden Assets (RTÉ One Sundays and RTÉ Player) that wouldn’t be out of place in The Sopranos

Angeline Ball’s character, CAB agent Emer Berry, and a colleague are waiting to talk to a suspect in a parked car, when your man starts to complain about his wife’s fear of mindfulness. It’s off-beat, it’s real, it’s funny and it brings the characters to life.

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