You know me. I am not going to watch something great and really enjoy it and not take up the bullhorn and shout its name into the ether.
(I think I do a good job with keeping my music finds to myself because the fine people on this board do not deserve the alarmingly weird stuff that excites me since I tend to be way way way outside the overton window, where I've been all my life. But when it comes to tv, I don't think I am that far off the range we have on this little platform. So here we go.)
The Devil's Hour is a 6 part English series, and Amazon Original, created by the writer Tom Moran, who is in the Steven Moffat circles (you probably saw the new Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch; that was Moffat, among many other things). It is a genre mesh up that has suspense, police mystery (not so much a procedural), and supernatural threads woven together. It involves children being kidnapped, people being killed, and a broken family, namely a mother and a young child in the midst of it, who is soon joined by a detective in trying to make sense of what's going on, and you know from tha start that Peter Capaldi (of the Thick of It fame and the twelfth Doctor) is the central baddie. The story is being told back and forth in time.
I loved the plot, the premise put out some idea that is not necessarily brand new but executed in a clever way and opens up some interesting questions for other writers to exploit while telling unrelated stories, so I appreciated that too. I think it is very well executed at all levels. The direction I think was very very good. And I will not give anything away but the ending went for an interesting choice that I did not see coming (and that is kinda unusual in these kinds of shows, to be honest) but felt very satisfying to me. (I am normally a "one episode a day" kinda watcher, but I had to see the last two in one sitting just to see how it all ties together, and the show did not disappoint.)
I highly recommend it (else why would I even write about it?)
Note: I am going back to Star Trek: Brave New World season 1 now, because I am an unabashed Trekkie, and then I'm thinking of giving this "3 Body Poblem" thing a try).