The Last Hour Review: The Supernatural Thriller About Shamans Will Leave You With Mixed Feelings
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For quite sometime, I had been looking forward to a new series. Something that would be different, would probably explore a new concept and won t be Salman Khan starrer Radhe! Such was the shock from just watching countless videos, and songs of Radhe that I had to rewatch Bandish Bandits to not hate the name really! Anyway, it was exactly during this time that I stumbled upon the series called The Last Hour on Amazon Prime. Starring Sanjay Kapoor, Karma Takapa and Shahana Goswami, this one was a supernatural thriller and Karma played a Shaman called Dev. Now, that s intriguing, right! So, of course I had to watch it. And while I can t really say that this is one of the best series that I have watched so far, this one is good. In fact, this one just left me with mixed feelings by the end of the 8 episodes!
A still from ‘The Last Hour’
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Directed by Amit Kumar, the eight-episode series at the height of its dramatic highs, looks like a concept presentation that went knocking on Ekta Kapoor’s doors but was ultimately turned down for the lack of erotica
There is a lush of coldness that pervades
The Last Hour no, it is definitely not because of its geographical setting: Sikkim. Its coldness whether in the way characters act by putting a unbelievably stoic performance or respond to their immediate situation with a largely devil-may-care attitude, or its icy premise that screams for some friction stems from a place of nothingness and makes you feel alienated from the proceedings, even if you try, genuinely try, to make an effort to navigate through a premise that could only be described dead on arrival.