History Podcast / TheHiddenPeople

* PortalCut: What eventually happens to [[spoiler:Cygnus]]on the way out of the in-between.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Running into [[spoiler:[[{{OldFlame}} Emma]] ]] would be awkward for Shaylee at the best of times, but ''especially'' for it to happen while she's [[spoiler:robbing a museum?]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Alfie is the the ineffectual, goofy ComicRelief guy of the main cast. This makes him the last person you'd expect to [[spoiler:tell Liliana "fuck you" and theaten to beat her and her husband to death with a fireplace poker in the season finale]].

''The Hidden People'' is an audio drama podcast created by Dayton Writers Movement, centered around the adventures and trials of Mackenna Thorne, a twenty-seven year old who's felt uncomfortable in her own skin her whole life, and has spent her adult years living an emotionally walled-off, repetitive life in her hometown of Conley, Ohio. Then her parents are killed: her father by a pack of giant black dogs, and her mother by a killer with a giant polearm that eludes the police. As her family and friends try to cope with what happened, and Mackenna tries to feel like a person, a series of increasingly odd events leads Mackenna and her circle of people to realize that their entire world is very different and much more bizarre than what they believed it to be.

The first season premiered in February 2019, running for 22 episodes and concluding in December of that year. The second season is scheduled for May 2020.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Running into [[spoiler:[[{{OldFlame}} Emma]] would be awkward for Shaylee at the best of times, but ''especially'' for it to happen while she's [[spoiler:robbing a museum?]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: Running into [[spoiler:Emma]] would be awkward for Shaylee at the best of times, but ''especially'' for it to happen while she's [[spoiler:robbing a museum?]]
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Averted by Alfie, who outlines the plan to [[spoiler: rob the National Museum of Ireland]] via montage, complete with [[SugarWiki/{{AwesomeMusic}} a montage of 70's style heist music]]!

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The first season premiered in February 2019, running for 22 episodes and concluding in December of that year. The second season is scheduled for sometime in 2020.

* TalkingToHimself: Any conversation between Mackenna Thorne and [[spoiler:Fetch-Mackenna]], both voiced by Jordan Lopez.

* AdultFear: Every last facet of [[spoiler:The Hidden People's society]] is this. [[spoiler:The Unseelie Court]] is essentially a giant human trafficking operation, kidnapping dozens of babies a year, using them as slaves, emotionally abusing them, and finally [[spoiler:gaslighting some into hating and killing their birth family and the changeling that replaced them for the Hidden's ''amusement'']].
* TheAgeless: [[spoiler:Implied to be the Hidden's standard. A few, notably Black Annis, appear elderly, but this was mentioned to be because of a curse laid on her by the younger Hidden following the civil war.]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Alfie is the the ineffectual, goofy comic relief member of the main cast who frequently steps into butt monkey territory. This leads to quite a bit of a shock in [[spoiler:the season finale when he tells Liliana "fuck you" and theatens to beat her and her husband to death with a fireplace poker if she doesn't help them save Mack's life.]]

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: As Shaylee puts it in season one, [[spoiler:The Hidden People can't be described as evil as they are an older and unfathomably more alien culture with different values]], though they are still incredibly ruthless and willing to take advantage of people who think of them as misunderstood.

* ByTheBookCop: What Samantha Mulligan is for the most part, holding tightly to due process and procedure while pulling out all the stops in solving the Thorne murders. Ron Sitwell takes over this position after Sam has a change of heart.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: [[spoiler:Black Annis]]
* ColdIron: [[spoiler:The one main weakness of the Hidden People and their constructs. Constructs can get poked by a piece of iron and explode into leaves; in order to glass a full Hidden, you have to strike them in a spot that would kill a normal person.]]

* DontThinkFeel: Eventually how Mackenna learns [[spoiler:most of the forms of magic she uses]]. [[spoiler:Invisibility, slowfalling, unmaking constructs, stepping sideways]], all of them are consequences of instinct. [[spoiler:Her luck being brought on by the "power of positive thought" might also qualify.]]

* FriendOnTheForce: Sam is briefly this to Mackenna and friends [[spoiler:until getting fired. Then she just joins the friend circle.]]

* GenreShift: After a period of character development and subtle foreshadowing, the series [[spoiler:goes from a murder mystery thriller to an action urban fantasy in the course of a couple episodes.]]

* CompellingVoice: Something [[spoiler:The Magister]] can use to a terrifying degree [[spoiler:on any other Hidden Person]]. Any of [[spoiler:TheFairFolk]] can use this in the limited context of a bargain or contract.

* LovableJock: Thomas was the quarterback of Conley's football team and also the most polite, respectful, and skilled homebody you could ever meet.

* AccentRelapse: Once it becomes clear that Mackenna is in immediate danger, [[Shaylee drops back into her natural Irish brogue while trying to help her escape the barghests at the water tower.]]