If you took the DNA of the movies Broadcast News and The Thirty-Nine Steps, added a pinch of Mad Men mystique, and mixed it all together in an art deco cocktail shaker, you might get a refreshment very like The Hour, making its U.S. premiere on BBC America on August 17. Diverting, smart, and atmospheric, if somewhat emulative, this six-episode drama is a spy thriller set in th (...)
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