“The Hour” Kicks Off Second Season
“The Hour” is the Brit answer to “The Newsroom,” only set fifty years ago. The first season of “The Hour” was marred by a silly Cold War subplot, as if the producers had got cold feet in an early focus group and felt obliged to tag on a thriller element. Now, as the second season gets underway, we have a secondary story about Soho vice (beautifully filmed, in places resembling Michael Powell’s “Peeping Tom”) but this worked better as it was integral to the downfall of the Hector of Dominic West (pictured).
