So much going on in the first episode, people with problems and issues they struggle with, all convoluted and mysterious. Jessica Raine is great, worried about her weird son, worried about the fact she wakes up at the same time every morning, worried she has visions of the future
Two detectives search for answers in a cold case - the mystery appears to solve itself too easily with signposted statements to highlight future clues - It's all bizarre and well made with great performances. Possibly an attempt to be the brilliant German series: 'The Dark' which would require more characters and a faster pace. I enjoyed the first series and will keep watching.
5 Reviews
Don't get the hype.
MegaMaexn13 December 2022
What am I missing here? Flat characters, extremely boring storytelling and lacklustre performances all over. Also less than impressed by the production quality for a show that should have had a rather big budget to draw from? I struggled to maintain any interest in what is going here, but ultimately failed miserably. Couldn't finish the first episode as I was close to dying of boredom. I had this on my watchlist for a while and decided to watch the first episode and see what the fuss is all about. I can now safely remove this from my list, never to be watched again. Rating episode 3.33 with a 3 seems rather appropriate.
Deeply unsettling...an intelligent psychological thriller
grahamperkins-2996128 October 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Lucy Chambers (Jessica Raine) has many issues, not least of which is the fact that she wakes up every night at exactly 3:33am, otherwise known as 'the devil's hour'. She wakes up from half remembered dreams, horrors that scratch at her subconscious mind. She also has a son that has no emotion, who apparently can see people who aren't there, a mother suffering from schizophrenia, a job that entails dealing with the very worst of humanity, and an estranged partner she routinely has secret relations with.
DI Rhavi Dhillon (Nikesh Patel) is a murder detective with his own issues, including a fear of blood and a need to solve cold cases that everyone else has given up on.
Round it off with Gideon (Peter Capaldi at his most unnerving) as a murder suspect who has more answers than he's willing to divulge in this opening episode (LOVE the fact that we don't see his face until the last few moments, and then in an extreme closeup, making him gaunt and obtrusive) and you have all the makings of something that could be a modern classic.
Beautiful direction by Johnny Allen and an understated but unsettling score, and unforced and un-melodramatic dialogue give this an air of psychological...well, if not exactly horror, definitely quite a scary opener.
With glimpses of the past present and future, presented as dreams, hallucinations, and the possibility of things not being how they are meant to be, you will have to really pay attention if you want to follow what's happening... or not happening as the case may be!
Kudos to young Issac (Benjamin Chivers) who delivers a subtle but unsettling performance akin to The Children of the Corn! And the always wonderful Meera Syal as Dr. Ruby Bennet is just sublime.
Time for episode 2 I think!
DI Rhavi Dhillon (Nikesh Patel) is a murder detective with his own issues, including a fear of blood and a need to solve cold cases that everyone else has given up on.
Round it off with Gideon (Peter Capaldi at his most unnerving) as a murder suspect who has more answers than he's willing to divulge in this opening episode (LOVE the fact that we don't see his face until the last few moments, and then in an extreme closeup, making him gaunt and obtrusive) and you have all the makings of something that could be a modern classic.
Beautiful direction by Johnny Allen and an understated but unsettling score, and unforced and un-melodramatic dialogue give this an air of psychological...well, if not exactly horror, definitely quite a scary opener.
With glimpses of the past present and future, presented as dreams, hallucinations, and the possibility of things not being how they are meant to be, you will have to really pay attention if you want to follow what's happening... or not happening as the case may be!
Kudos to young Issac (Benjamin Chivers) who delivers a subtle but unsettling performance akin to The Children of the Corn! And the always wonderful Meera Syal as Dr. Ruby Bennet is just sublime.
Time for episode 2 I think!
I Don't Know
Hitchcoc25 July 2023
Another first episode of a series. At the center is a woman who wakes up every morning at 3:33 a.m. It is after a recurring dream. It involves her mother in her younger days, putting shotgun under her chin and trying to pull the trigger. She also has flashes in her waking hours of events that have not happened. As a social worker, she sees the seediest side of human interaction. In addition to her own stuff, she has a little boy who is emotionless. She has brought him to seven different psychotherapists. He never smiles. He wanders the house at night. We also are in on a couple of detectives who are trying to solve a cold case. I guess I'll peck away at this one for a while and see where it takes me.
3.33
Prismark1029 October 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Ravi Dhillon (Nikesh Patel) and Nick Holness (Alex Ferns) are two detective who think they have made an important breakthrough over a series of mysterious murders that might go back some years.
Lucy (Jessica Raine) a social worker is concerned about her young son Isaac who does not express any emotions. He does not even smile. Lucy is now on her seventh psychotherapist about her son's issues.
However Lucy also has problems of her own. She keeps waking up at 3.33 am each morning. At the same time, known as the devil's hour. Lucy is also plagued by strange visions. It might be related to her relations with her mother.
Added to the intrigue. There are scenes of Lucy meeting with a dreaded character Gideon (Peter Capaldi) in what seems like a prison.
The series is sold on the premise of Peter Capaldi. He is not featured enough in the first episode.
The first third of the episode had a lot of promise. It was strange and eerie enough, especially by the way it was shot.
It then started to become a slog. A sure sign that the series has been padded for a streaming service.
You know everything is going to be linked. I did wonder if Gideon is not something to do with her father, then only exists in Lucy's head.
Lucy (Jessica Raine) a social worker is concerned about her young son Isaac who does not express any emotions. He does not even smile. Lucy is now on her seventh psychotherapist about her son's issues.
However Lucy also has problems of her own. She keeps waking up at 3.33 am each morning. At the same time, known as the devil's hour. Lucy is also plagued by strange visions. It might be related to her relations with her mother.
Added to the intrigue. There are scenes of Lucy meeting with a dreaded character Gideon (Peter Capaldi) in what seems like a prison.
The series is sold on the premise of Peter Capaldi. He is not featured enough in the first episode.
The first third of the episode had a lot of promise. It was strange and eerie enough, especially by the way it was shot.
It then started to become a slog. A sure sign that the series has been padded for a streaming service.
You know everything is going to be linked. I did wonder if Gideon is not something to do with her father, then only exists in Lucy's head.
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