25 January 2013

The Hour - Season 2 - Debrief

Half-way through the season finale, more-than-a-mere-housewife Marnie Madden tells her philandering TV-star husband Hector that she's preggers.  Except - was it the penultimate ep? - Hector told colleague and proper journo Freddie Lyon that he was sterile.  Dominic West's craft - ho, Bal'more! - coupled with the absolute lack of dialogue for those precious few seconds, were television gold.

It's a pity it was one of a mere few flakes of the shiny stuff that The Hour has thrown up this season.  Everything else has been exposition, melodrama and pantomime level dialogue.  Pity.

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