Review of The Last Hour

The Last Hour (2021– )
10/10
For those who didn't understand the last episode
1 June 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Dev is a Jhakhri (I hope that's the spelling, I saw the show with Hindi captions), and he has the power to go back in time and witness the victim's death. Throughout the season he was only going one hour back in time to get a good picture of what happened and to meet Pari and send the victim to the other side. However, after killing Pinto he went only a few minutes behind in time to see Pinto's relation with Yama Nadu. Yama Nadu has the power to see how a person dies, and so he had already seen how Dev will die (Yama Nadu kills him in his meditation). No matter what Dev does, Yama Nadu will kill him.

So the only way to stop Yama Nadu was if none of these things would happen, to be precise, if Dev hadn't stopped Pari twice from kissing him. It was one event after the other, because of which finally this situation came. He changed the time when he stopped her from kissing him the second time to stop Pari's rape and killing, but that's the reason why Yama Nadu was finally going to kill him. And now that Yama Nadu killed Dev, Dev's own soul met his own body to go even further back in time when he had stopped Pari from kissing him the first time.

Because this time they kissed, and the show ended with the hope that they were in love, Pari would no longer be depressed, Dev would no longer hide from Arup, he won't be a prime suspect, they will never separate ways, Pari won't be annoyed at her father, Yama Nadu would never take advantage of this opportunity and they will all be safe. Obviously this won't go as happily, because from what The Flash has taught me, timelines can never be completely fixed no matter what we do. Now THIS is some genius writing right there!

It's not very common for Indian shows or movies to have a setting in Northeast. As far as I can guess, normally they don't do it thinking the audience will not "relate" to it. And it seems The Last Hour absolutely decided to go all out on that - Fine, we won't relate at all. Personally I like those kinds of styles more. And style is literally what this show is all about. The Last Hour is a non-conventional show that isn't something any layman can understand just by looking at it. The top review thinks the last episode left it unanswered and made him fool (I don't know why he said "us", because at least I understood, and I haven't talked to anyone else yet who has seen this), that's how complicated this show is.

Unlike normal Prime Originals that have an A rating, this one isn't filled with profane language and nudity. In fact it has only 3 F-bombs in the entire season, only 2 sex scenes and 3-4 kissing scenes (2 of them being the important to the story). In fact this show is so peaceful and relaxing that I used to watch it on our family TV with my parents also seeing what I'm watching. I have literally no idea why it has an A-rating. It should have been U/A.

There are a lot of deaths that happen throughout the series. This always makes the audience feel uncomfortable regarding who might be next, or how the story moves ahead. In the very first episode itself the police officers who escorted Arup, Dev's brother and Amu's father got killed (I hope that's her spelling, since I was watching with Hindi captions). Seeing all that happen, my first reaction was like, "Wait, did half the cast just die in the first episode itself? Then what are they going to show in the remaining 7 episodes?" Even Pari was about to commit suicide if it wasn't Dev who came just in time to stop her.

I liked everything about this show - the settings, the acting, the story, the music, everything. Sanjay Kapoor did justice to his role, and the show did justice to him. I hope he gets more popularity with time. Also like I mentioned above, the show really makes the audience think. It's not for the Mirzapur or Four More Shots Please audience. The way the last episode ended, I have a hunch that it will keep getting more and more complicated as time moves on.
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