The Hour - Season 1
A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.
6 March 1976, Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK
October 5, 1924 in South Africa
28 November 1988
19 March 1978, London, England, UK
14 October 1980, Clifton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
30 October 1956, Essex, England, UK
1984, Lagos, Nigeria
14 February 1952, Birmingham, England, UK
2 June 1951, Poplar, London, England, UK
January 17, 2019
Spot-on period details and glamorous styling... It does many things exceptionally well, delivering complex characters, a well-paced story, and, of course, the aforementioned art direction.
January 17, 2019
The Hour is alternately ferocious and tender, and refreshingly clear-eyed about the interactions between gender and class.
January 17, 2019
A seriously engaging historical drama.
August 17, 2011
The series' inclination to melodrama sometimes overshadows its historical context.
January 17, 2019
Strangely, it is the day-to-day newsroom politics that is currently proving enthralling on The Hour rather than the conspiracy and unsolved murders lurking in the background.
January 17, 2019
A totally OK hourlong drama... The Hour comes billed as "an edge-of-your-seat spy thriller," which isn't right. It's cozier and slower and airier than that, more of an arm-of-your-sofa spy thriller.
August 17, 2011
If you're a fan of high-quality, deliberately paced period drama, you need to check out The Hour.
January 17, 2019
Instead of just offering a soap opera for 50s nostalgics, The Hour gives us an interesting balance between relationships and danger. The conspiracy angle is ever-present, but it's not overpowering.
January 17, 2019
What it did well it did very well... But my, how it longed to be Important Television -- and whatever else it was, it wasn't quite that.
August 17, 2011
Viewers craving a satisfying gourmet meal rather than another summertime "reality" Moon Pie are urged to make The Hour a Wednesday night ritual for the next six weeks.
January 17, 2019
Ben Whishaw is great as bitter, passionate hack Freddie, as is Romola Garai as Bel, an ambitious woman seemingly decades ahead of her own time. Both are upstaged, however, by the towering presence of Dominic West.
August 17, 2011
It offers amusement and a tad of suspense, but little to ponder over the long run.
