![]() ![]() Nevertheless, the scenes between Raines and Capaldi are far and away the series' most compelling, as the two actors slowly circle each other, with Lucy growing increasingly desperate and Gideon growing ever more vague and esoteric. However, some of the multiple rounds of vague question-and-answer sessions are more successful than others. Lucy and Dhillon's ongoing interrogation of Gideon is the framing device meant to hold all this together and help keep the various narrative threads straight. ![]() The search for Isaac also leads Lucy and DI Ravi Dhillon ( Nikesh Patel) to a decades-old murder case that may or may not involve Gideon. ![]() When Isaac is kidnapped, Lucy's forced to finally confront some uncomfortable truths: That there's something genuinely wrong with her son, that her visions of the future are somehow real, and that this all somehow connects to a man named Gideon Shepherd (Capaldi), whose behavior is ultimately as sinister as the show's general atmosphere (and Capaldi's menacing glowering) would initially have you believe. Oh, and also, their house may or may not be haunted. Lucy also experiences strange, déjà vu-like visions, although they aren't reminders of past experiences but odd glimpses of the future that has yet to happen. If that weren't enough, her mother's health is failing, and Lucy isn't sleeping properly: She wakes up every night at precisely 3:33 am, which some refer to as "the devil's hour," when creepy, supernatural events are likely to occur. Her son Isaac ( Benjamin Chivers) is creepily troubled in a way no doctor seems to be able to diagnose properly, and her husband Mike ( Phil Dunster) has abandoned their marriage because he can't deal with the fact that his son appears to be incapable of expressing human emotion. In the simplest terms, the show follows the story of Lucy Chambers (Raines), a social worker and single mother who's desperately trying to hold herself, her job, and her fraying family together. One part serial killer drama, one part supernatural mystery, and one part horror story, with a dash of everything from child abduction to romance, philosophy, and family strife thrown on top, The Devil's Hour is undoubtedly a series that defies easy description and/or categorization. While Capaldi is having the time of his life playing the man who may or may not be the series' villain, his effort is more than balanced by former Call the Midwife star Jessica Raine, who does her best to ground the show's weird twists in realistic and genuine emotion. Thankfully, The Devil's Hour boasts an outstanding ensemble cast who work overtime to infuse the series' unnecessarily dense and convoluted plot with actual emotional weight. Its wildly ambitious story and purposefully disjointed narrative mean the show feels like a lot of work to watch for relatively little reward. ![]() But the six-episode series may be too much even for the most dedicated science fiction fans. This means that many fans have doubtless tuned in to (or are planning to watch) his newest project, the buzzy psychological drama slash time-wimey mystery The Devil's Hour, currently streaming on Prime Video. (Fun fact: Lewis Capaldi is Peter's nephew.) Former Doctor Whostar Peter Capaldi is one of those people, which means that many of us have watched everything from DC Comics superhero films to Lewis Capaldi music videos just for the chance to see what he's been doing since he left the TARDIS and the Twelfth Doctor behind. Occasionally, there are actors of such quality that you'll watch them in virtually anything they do, even if the project is weird or just not to your usual taste as a viewer. ![]()
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