7. The Hour
She says all I care about is the story. The story and you.
The greatest enjoyment I get from The Hour is not so much the stories (though they are very good and often thrilling and intense) but is is just spending time in the 1950s with the characters.
Sometimes I wish the show would scale back on the outside tension and focus in on the trials and heartbreak of Bel and co. Whether it be the impossible loss between Randall and Lix or the simmering tension with Bel and Freddie. The little moments when Hector and Freddie mock each other or Sissy worries over her estrangement with her family for marrying Sey. Possibly my favourite development this season was Marnie getting to establishment herself and her career instead of being in the shadow of Hector.
Of course such a connection with the characters makes the finale that much harder to take especially as there seems to be no word on another season. There seems to be no happy endings for many. The pursuit of story became Freddie’s world and possibly ended it.
I just really need that not to be the case.
Favourite Episodes: Episode 2 / Episode 6
(via lovegoods)
There are things that are OK…and then there is this fucking episode of The Hour…
And ne’er the twain shall meet….
Still crying over this episode
RANDALL: We may yet find ourselves grateful.
LIX: Grateful for what?
RANDALL: War. It narrows the aperture, insists on focus. We dwell on things we cannot bear to leave undone.
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RANDALL: Will you be partaking of the mince pies and jollity this evening, Miss Storm?
LIX: No, Mr. Brown, bah humbug is more my style. Although the children are very sweet.
RANDALL: Indeed.
I love them
I will do what I like.
“Ladies and gentlemen, if we cannot debate that which troubles our society, and more importantly troubles our government, then we cannot in all honesty call ourselves a democracy. If we cannot question our leaders as they embark on what has been called an illegal military action, an action publicly opposed by the United States government and the countries of the United Nations Security Council. If we cannot reasonably and intelligently query about the rightness of an action that appears at heart to be deceitful then we are not a free…”
The Hour - Episode 6
Two more days
Favourite Fictional Females ⇒ Lix Storm (The Hour)
Lix my darling, remember when I feared for those few moments they would make you the mole. Thank god they didn’t.
(via miurt)
This show and these women need to come back now
(via sleekills)