The Devil's Hour

Some reviewers on here wouldn't know a good series if it slapped them on the face! This is a quality thriller all the way through that keeps you guessing and wraps it up with a decent ending. People say you have to pay close attention, surely if you are putting on a series or a film while doing the hoover or got your head stuck on Social Media on your phone then it's not worth watching, is complete trash and requires the attention span of a 3 year old.

Of course you need to pay attention to the detail and concentrate on it to be able to enjoy it and not get lost in the story this is telling. Pay attention as it actually requires some concentration on your part! As long as you do that, and stop looking at your phone at the same time for 5 seconds you might actually enjoy a good series for a change. Not going to give it away but it draws you in and doesn't let go till the very end. Brilliant!

This show. This. SHOW! It was everything I want in a thriller/suspense/drama! It had that looping property, this reliving and rechanging things all over again thing that I seriously love, love, LOVE! I was definitely team toss that demon child Isaac outside at first. He was creepy, he was weird, must be evil. As the show went on I realized I was the jerk just like everyone else around him. He couldn't help who he was, but he also DID learn and grow. In his own way. When Dhillon made him smile, my heart stopped. Every moment of this show had me on EDGE. I couldn't look away for fear of missing something. And finally, getting to hear Peter Capaldi's story at the end? Just as good! My only complaint is that I wish it was LONGER. But so many great scenes. (The overlay of people/events in that house?? Come on soooo good!) Seriously this one kept me watching until the very end and continued to grip me even once it was done. I've added no spoilers so you can simply enjoy it but MAN was it great! Also, Mike sucks. -_- Peter Capaldi is just as wonderful as he was in Doctor Who. But the lead actress? Amazing! I loved her strength, her love for Isaac, and her care for other people as well as her resolve. She did amazing!

You are going to have to watch the first five episodes - which I each rate with a decent 7/10 - to be able to watch the real gem: i.e. The sixth episode. That sixth episode is just so extremely awesome, that it alone deserves a 10/10.

It is the first time that I have ever watched such an "assymmetric" show. The difference between episodes 1-5 and 6 is just huge! And after seeing episode 6, you will also appreciate more all preceding episodes.

Averaging the different scores (5 episodes of 7 stars and 1 episode of 10 stars) will give this show a score of 7.5/10. Rounding this, gives an IMDb rating of 8 stars.

But please do understand that the real gem is the last episode. And you will have to watch all the episodes before it to really understand what is happening in episode 6.

This is not your put it on and do some cleaning around the house series. If you're not paying attention, well, you will be lost. I was meandering a bit and I actually did pay attention - I rewound a bit here and there.

I watched specifically because of Peter Capaldi - Who can resist a retired Doctor Who??

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.

This is NOT a series I would usually watch. It seems to be a concept that I have seen before, but can't name the program. I don't think this one was particularly well done, but it is very entertaining --- especially for the week before Halloween.

Enjoy! But only if you pay close attention.

"The Devil's Hour" is a binge-worthy Amazon Prime streaming series that is almost like an exercise in thought: what if the 12th Doctor Who, played by Peter Capaldi as well, did not have the moral not to kill? What if he did not have the same capabilities, but the same motive to stop chaos?

The limiting factors produce a darker tone as well as a doctor who is not a doctor, but a fixer who often gets it wrong, because he cannot see as far into the future as Doctor Who can.

But at any rate, while Peter Capaldi is surely a main attraction to the show, he is not the starring character or the one whose journey we follow.

That credit goes to an almost single mother named Lucy Chambers, whose son and mother has the same disconcerting issues of being able to see what's not there. And Lucy Chambers, the most socially functional member of the family, is starting to struggle with the same psychiatric issues (or could they be abilities?) herself.

And once she comes to terms with what she can do, or not, we see her struggle along her own motivations to fix things, namely her son, who can be the most gifted and the most impaired of them all.

Overall a beguiling series with a bit of muffled impact for me at the end, with some curveballs throughout that strike me as somewhat improbable as too many tragedies of similar nature were set to occur. It's difficult for high concept thrillers to totally land, so I can make allowances there for what still is a thought provoking series. Commendable acting from the child actor who plays Isaac.