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The Hour

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The Hour	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Hour was a BBC drama series, written by Abi Morgan and starring Ben Whishaw, Dominic West, Romola Garai, Anna Chancellor, and Oona Chaplin. The series centered on a new current affairs show being launched by the BBC in June 1956, at the time of the Suez Crisis (a period setting which has led to comparisons with Mad Men). Bel Rowley (Garai) is the producer of the Show Within a Show; her friend Freddie Lyon (Whishaw) loses the presenter interview to well-spoken Eton boy Hector Madden (West) but she persuades him to stay on as a researcher. Meanwhile, Freddie is suspicious about the reported suicide of an old friend, and when he starts to notice shadowy men following him around, it only confirms his suspicions.The most common criticism made of the show's first season was of thematic inconsistency; the two main threads of let's-run-a-groundbreaking-TV-show and let's-investigate-a-government-conspiracy had little to do with each other, and while both interesting in their own right sometimes gave the show a disjointed Wake Up, Go To Work, Save The World feel. One review called it "Drop the Dead Donkey meets Spooks". Season Two has taken on a more noir-ish feel, with the Soho underworld and police corruption as major arcs, along with the ever-growing nuclear threat. It has been highly praised by critics - especially the addition of Peter Capaldi to the main cast as new head of news Randall Brown.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Premiered on BBC Two on 19 July 2011 and on BBC America in August. The second series started on BBC Two on 14 November 2012. The show was canceled in 2013. A campaign to bring it back was launched on Tumblr, with a petition at Change.org. As of September 2013, it's won an Emmy for Best Writing for a Miniseries or Movie.
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The Hour / int_31fa019d	type	All Psychology Is Freudian
The Hour / int_31fa019d	comment	All Psychology Is Freudian: Randall is apparently a fan of Freud - he has a psychiatrist's couch in his office and quotes him to Freddie as they talk about Freddie mourning his father.
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The Hour / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Due to the time period, nearly everyone drinks to excess. It's Hector and Lix who are labeled actual alcoholics. Averted by Randall. While he was a "fantastic drunk" and "an alcoholic" in his younger days, he's gone, teetotaler.
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The Hour / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
The Hour / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Freddie and Bel sometimes call each other James and Moneypenny. As you would imagine, this does nothing to defuse the UST.
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