Amazon Prime Video has a series that’s impressed critics so much it’s earned a 100 percent rating, with audience scores not far behind.
Sometimes all you want is an easy weekend watch: snacks within reach, the Prime Video intro playing, and something gripping enough to make you pause and brace for the next twist.
That’s exactly the kind of experience many viewers have found with The Devil’s Hour, led by Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi. With 16 episodes available, it’s set up perfectly for a full-on binge.
Blending supernatural horror with serial-killer tension, the show layers in mystery elements and then pushes further into reality-bending territory.
According to IMDB, season one focuses on a woman [Jessica Raine], who wakes up ‘every night at exactly 3.33AM, in the middle of the so-called devil’s hour between 3AM and 4AM.’
Season two continues the story from there, and some fans may find it a smoother ride—especially once the first season’s revelations start to click into place.
The setup becomes even more unusual when the sleepless mother’s path intersects with Gideon Shepherd [Capaldi]—a murderer who experiences the future as if it were memory.
Capaldi has said the genre demands made the role a challenging one.
“What’s compelling for me is—well, first of all, this [whole show] is an imaginative leap, right? And in a way that makes it kind of hard to play,” Capaldi said in an interview with Paste Magazine. “I always think genre things are harder to play than people realize because the mechanics of the story always have elements that are not real. So you have to believe in these things. The actors have to believe in these things that are not real and convince everyone else that they are real.”
If the response from critics and viewers is anything to go by, that work paid off—helping the series land a 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
On the rating platform, one critic said: “This supernatural-tinged one is a doozy: suspenseful, well-acted and full of surprises.”
Another wrote: “The Devil’s Hour is a binge-worthy offering from Prime Video that has the potential to be another memorable addition to the streaming platform’s library of content.”
A third said: “Several corpses and authentic horror scenes round out this mystery that unfolds episode by episode, and that leaves you wanting more.”
With reviews like that—and a full season ready to stream—it’s an easy contender for your next watchlist pick.
The Devil’s Hour Season 2 is streaming on Prime Video right now.