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- BBC-2
- Nov 14, 2012
- BBC-2
- Nov 14, 2012
Summary It's 1956 and a new topical news programme is about to be launched on the BBC. The six-part drama (written by Abi Morgan) takes you behind-the-scenes as a passionate love triangle develops in the newsroom.
- BBC-2
- Nov 14, 2012
- BBC-2
- Nov 14, 2012
Summary It's 1956 and a new topical news programme is about to be launched on the BBC. The six-part drama (written by Abi Morgan) takes you behind-the-scenes as a passionate love triangle develops in the newsroom.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
79
94% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
6% Mixed
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0% Negative
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The performances, the writing, the intelligence that goes into the script and the characters--all reasons for welcoming the start of a new season of The Hour.
The Hour is not "Breaking Bad" good, or "Mad Men" good, but it's close.
[Marnie's] one element in the rich vein of personalities that The Hour only began to mine in its first season, and one of the many reasons the second season is looking very good indeed.
The Hour's charms are many, but chief among them is its celebration of intelligence and diligence as cardinal, animating virtues.
I'll take Hour's rather sour worldview--deadlines in deadly times--over the grand uplift of HBO's The Newsroom. In a nanosecond. [3 Dec 2012, p.44]
At least in the early going, the current season avoids the sentimental speechifying about truth and justice that became increasingly prevalent in Season 1. And the let's-put-on-a-broadcast scenes are still reliably entertaining.
The players seem to spend much of their time entering and exiting the same drab offices while shoveling exposition at one other.
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