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The Devil's Hour (2022)

2022 · Drama,Mystery,Sci-Fi · sci-fi-speculative, crime-psychological-profiler, crime-detective-puzzle

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The Devil's Hour is a tightly constructed British genre hybrid — part psychological thriller, part supernatural crime drama, part science-fiction puzzle — built around a mother whose son seems emotionally unreachable and a time-looping structural device that slowly reveals why nothing in the narrative is what it first appears. It demands active, undistracted attention across its six episodes, rewarding patient viewers with a finale that retrospectively recontextualises every scene. Peter Capaldi's unsettling antagonist and the child actor playing Isaac are the performance anchors, but the show's real signature is its genre-blending confidence: it handles dread, intellectual mystery, and emotional heartbreak in roughly equal measure without shortchanging any of them.

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It had that looping property, this reliving and rechanging things all over again thing that I seriously love, love, LOVE!
There seems to be too many shows out there today that are predictable or treat their audience like idiots, thankfully The Devil's Hour is neither. The show asks you to follow what is happening and leaves you to figure it out as it progresses.
At times it had the feel of supernatural dread to it, at other times a clever whodunnit.
Be aware that the first few episodes won't make much sense, they keep moving time frames, certain characters come and go, situations change drastically and so on.
Actor Benjamin Chivers, who plays Issac, the young son, is nothing short of incredible. There's one scene where I found myself with my hand over my mouth and I had stopped breathing. This child was brilliant in his delivery.

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