![]() ![]() ![]() Yet after watching this 12-episode series we defy you not to love her a little. Her family is loathsome, her lifestyle is ridiculous, and her job is a joke. She's maniacal, selfish, self-destructive, and morally bankrupt. Raine is a phenomenally commanding lead throughout, while Capaldi's sinister performance is one of the most chilling you'll see on screen. As her nightmares draw her into the orbit of police detective Ravi Dhillon's (Nikesh Patel) investigations of a bloody murder and a child's abduction, Lucy comes face-to-face with Shepherd as she tries to uncover how the two are entangled. The focus is on Lucy (Jessica Raine), an over-burdened social worker with an increasingly distant and troubled young son, who wakes at exactly 3:33 am every morning, plagued by horrific visions. This is, instead, a mix of murder mystery and thriller, tied off with a dash of the supernatural. ![]() That’s about as close as this gritty six-part drama gets to Doctor Who, though. When Peter Capaldi, here playing mysterious criminal Gideon Shepherd, says “my perception of time is better than anyone’s,” it’s clear that The Devil’s Hour creator Tom Moran is having a little fourth-wall breaking fun with his former Time Lord leading man. ![]()
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