The Hour - Season 2 Watch Online for Free

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.

Genre:

Drama

Actors:

Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw, Dominic West, Anna Chancellor, Joshua McGuire, Lisa Greenwood, Oona Chaplin, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Paul Chahidi, Anton Lesser, Peter Capaldi, ...»

Director:

Jamie Payne, Catherine Morshead

Country:

United Kingdom

Release:

2012

IMDb:

8.0

Quality:

Duration:

60 min

The Big Issue (Australia)

It's a step up from the first series; fingers crossed there's a third.

August 15, 2017

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New York Daily News

Someone who never saw the first season could jump in Wednesday night and quickly get downright absorbed in one of the best-crafted and acted dramas on television.

November 14, 2012

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The Arts Desk

Despite its superficial attention to 1950s detail (suits, hats, frocks, cars), the more The Hour tries to feel authentic, the less convincing it becomes.

January 17, 2019

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Daily Telegraph (UK)

The Hour remains tautly structured and with just the right balance between necessary period cliché and fun facts.

January 17, 2019

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Vogue

While Freddie, played wonderfully by Whishaw, remains one of the show's virtues, The Hour's great disappointment is that this new season is still doing so badly by Bel.

March 07, 2017

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TV Guide

Abi Morgan spins a dazzling tale with the help of a glamorous cast.

January 17, 2019

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PopMatters

Its compositions tell stories without a word.

November 14, 2012

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Boston Herald

The players seem to spend much of their time entering and exiting the same drab offices while shoveling exposition at one other.

November 14, 2012

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Slate

If only the show's producers had more faith in their characters-and in the idea that viewers will be entertained and challenged by watching them struggle to do a good job of holding people out there in the "real world" accountable for their actions.

November 14, 2012

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Philadelphia Inquirer

A smart, well-written, and brilliantly acted drama about politics, espionage, murder, sex, racism, and war in 1950s Britain.

January 17, 2019

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Newsday

There are real pleasures with The Hour.

November 14, 2012

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Boston Globe

It's a subtle intertwining of journalists' professional struggles, their personal lives, and the thorny social issues that envelope them, and I can't recommend it enough.

November 14, 2012

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