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SBS On Demand: Hidden Assets, Piste Noire, Thicker Than Water

This week an Irish crime drama, French crime drama and Swedish-Finnish mystery.

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Released today at SBS On Demand are Irish crime drama Hidden Assets, French crime drama Piste Noire, and Swedish-Finnish mystery Thicker Than Water.

Thursday, 12 October 2023:

Hidden Assets
Season 2
All six episodes available.
Bibi arrives at her father-in-law Richard’s memorial service, hoping to see her son. When she’s blocked from entering by his business partner, Bibi is warned that any deals with Richard died with him. Bibi returns to Ireland, only to have her car bombed. Fearing her enemies are tying up loose ends, Bibi approaches the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) and proposes a deal: protection and immunity from prosecution in return for information. But there have been changes in CAB and the new team is less than thrilled to deal with Bibi – until a cyber-attack puts everyone’s lives at risk.

Piste Noire
All six episodes available. In French with English subtitles.
When a local worker is found murdered in his caravan, ski-champion-turned-police-officer Emilie discovers behind the beauty of the icy mountains lies a dangerous conspiracy. Emilie joins forces with Major Servoz, a disillusioned local gendarme, and they soon discover a link between the crime and local drug dealers. Then Emilie uncovers evidence that brings the case far too close to home: her brother may be the murderer.

Thicker Than Water
(Season 3)
All seven episodes available. In Swedish with English subtitles.
Three years have passed, and the Waldemar siblings are asked to visit by their mother. They gather at the family lodging house on Sunnanö, where buried secrets and old injustices threaten them, not to mention new mistakes and drastic consequences.

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  1. It’s just a fact of life that good original drama content is becoming increasingly few and far between in recent years, so it’s inevitable that if you do have a successful screenplay that achieves genuine ratings success worldwide other similar shows will be created in a production line process there after. Generic story telling is not unusual in murder or detective series, the tropes / hallmarks are always obvious there, but any new creative concept that grabs the public’s imagination and makes money will be exploited by the studios for sure, one of the best examples of this is Star Wars which has had numerous cloned versions made of it’s original concept, such as Battlestar Galactica, but these type of successes are increasingly now a thing of the past, the current crop of Hollywood showrunners and directors are not quite as creatively forward thinking as George Lucas or later Steven Spielberg were as film makers, it’s about the IP and money.

      1. Most mainstream audiences know Star Wars, and a lot has been written about this franchise, which is why I mentioned it. Clint Eastwood”s ‘A Fistful of Dollars’ was a remake of Kurosawa’s film ‘Yojimbo’ made in 1961, and who can forget ‘The Magnificent Seven’ film (1960), which was based on Akira Kurosawa’s film classic “Seven Sumurai’.

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