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Zero Hour Season 1 Episode 1

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AIRED: Feb 14, 2013

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Hank Galliston, publisher of the paranormal enthusiast magazine, Modern Skeptic, is thrown into one of the biggest conspiracies in human history after his wife, Laila, is abducted by White Vincent, an international terrorist. It all started when Laila found an antique clock at a Brooklyn flea market. The clock has the power to do more than just tell time. Hank, aided by his staffers Rachel and Arron and FBI Agent Rebecca "Beck" Riley, sets out to find Laila but discovers the mission is so much more. Hank must decipher the treasure map and unlock the secrets found in the clock and keep what he finds out of the hands of the mysterious White Vincent.

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Zero Hour Series Premiere Review: Anyone Know What We Just Watched?

ABC's new thriller is 40-something minutes of brain trauma that deserves a second look just to see where the madness goes.

By Tim Surette, Feb 15, 2013

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Time Is Of The Essence

7.0

By AudioFileZ, Mar 01, 2013

OK,I admit I was expecting something, at least at first, more original from the mind that created "Prison Break". While that show started with a brilliant premise it progressed in bursts and lulls. Early on, however, it was fairly riveting and definitely fresh. So, what "Zero Hour" begins with is a watered down Indiana Jones-ish tale of Nazi wrapped paranormal. Not exactly clearly original or clear in any way. The show after the first episode is mostly an enigma of mediocrity. To this I say: "don't give up". Zero Hour possesses some untapped potential in it's boldness to glom something mystical from the DaVinci Code, Indiana Jones, and whatever the heck else it aspires to be. Only time will is of the essence here in more ways than one. I'm not giving up on the mind of Paul Scheuring and I hope ABC doesn't either as I think there is some legs underneath the "pasta-on-the-wall" splat of the first two episodes.moreless
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Dan Brown wanna-be

3.0

By kyravon, Mar 01, 2013

Religious themed mystery.

Things I couldn't get over:

Skeptic/logical person suddenly becomes a person who operates on "Faith" not facts?? And of course Vincent would have killed the wife as soon as he got what he wanted. There is no way he would've kept her alive. But of course the husband's "faith" is apparently keeping her alive.... ugh.

I usually like the actor, but he's annoying me on this one.

90+ year old man keeps his terrible secret for over 70 years but blabs it all to the first American kids to randomly show up on his doorstep?

Yes, apparently someone just watched the XFiles episode where the mystery sub has been hidden in the artic for decades with it's secrets....

I'll try one more episode, to see if the make the mystery any more interesting, but I am learning towards NO on this one.

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Don't know where to begin

1.5

By d-phrag, Feb 26, 2013

It is awful on so many levels I find it hard to believe a network paid for it. Bad acting, horrible script, disastrous casting choice - everything is wrong with this one. Stopped at 34:00. Waste of tIme.
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A great start!

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By TrueTvWatcher, Feb 23, 2013

The pilot premiere was definitely entertaining, suspenseful and full of mystery. I really enjoyed watching so far because the show reminds me a little bit of the Divinci code or angels and demons and the actors were amazing. The action wss captivating as is the mystery behind what is liked how everything played out so far and I certainly can't wait to find out what happens next. I have a feeling this show will fill a void that has existed in television programming.moreless
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Should Have Known Better

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By Kerkesh, Feb 17, 2013

Watchmaking is an extremely precise and meticulous profession which emphasizes a dexterity for details and a profound knowledge of cause and effect, the mechanical aspect. This is why, for instance, Mr. Manhattan from Watchmen fame and Sylar from Heroes were watchmakers at some point in their lives. Unlike other professions, historical figures and their innovations are a necessity; and watchmakers are capable of telling you which is what model and what is inside it by merely seeing the objects. The point is that Leila knew almost exactly what she was seeing and buying when she bought the Clock at the open market. She must have had some kind of discussion with the seller for more precision as to origin, at the very least. Her predicament and kidnapping, then, should not have come as a surprise as it appeared to at the beginning of the show. White's involvement as the kidnapper was also a weak point to the plot, as he could have and would have intervened without the kidnapping. Unless, and this is important, at some level both Leila and White "knew" that this was a predestined step; part of the Prophecy. In Leila's case, it would mean that her marriage to Hank Galliston was by design and that somehow she was responsible for his professional aspirations as an editor of a paranormal publication.

As for the background, it would make sense to someone involved in the occult. Indeed, the Rosicrucian Order, a diluted form of which is prominent nowadays with the AMORC , especially in the USA;was initially a philosophical/occult ceremonial lodge founded by a mysterious German , Christian Rosenkreuz, a synonym to the movement. Here the two conceptual texts of the Order are presented here as fact; and naturally Nazism would be its worse enemy. Hence, as a plot it holds its ground as fiction and we can expect something interesting to come from the series. The idea of reforming the Apostles in modern times is not a Rosicrucian belief, as such, but it can be presented as a secret pact among the Grand Masters, a fact that we cannot possibly judge as either a hoax or an occult do know that the Scottish Rite Freemasonry of the present day was a titular development of Rosicrucian beliefs, then this opens fictional possibilities of all sorts.

The premise of the series is then a tenable proposition, but the whole presentation lacked a firm foundation. The pairing between Hank and the FBI agent, a single woman of course, was not well introduced; and that his daughter and boyfriend would have the means and the gumption to enter this murderous race is not convincing. That the old watchmaker was not under surveillance all these years and that he would open up to this most secret of information so easily is totally impossible. As characters, that they are a Jewish family in what is eminently a Christian Quest is also not very sustainable, but maybe there is something here that will be revealed in due am only mentioning this aspect as the plot is one in which Christianity and religious symbolism is bound to play a central role.

All in all, besides some tentative weak steps we can expect some good fiction if the writers will not sacrifice meaning to action as it did in this pilot. We will have to wait and see how it develops and whether it will lose itself or not in the immense complexity of what the subject matter can offer.moreless
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Anthony Edwards	Hank Galliston
Carmen Ejogo	FBI Agent Rebecca "Beck" Riley
Scott Michael Foster	Arron Martin
Addison Timlin	Rachel Lewis
Jacinda Barrett	Laila Galliston
Michael Nyqvist	White Vincent

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Charles S. Dutton	Father Mickle	Guest Star
Jan Triska	Old Clockmaker	Guest Star
Neil Napier	Priest	Guest Star

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Carmen Ejogo on Zero Hour from "Strike".

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Addison Timlin on Zero Hour from "Strike".

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- Special billing was given to Jacinda Barrett (with) and Michael Nyqvist (and) for this episode.
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  Canada: February 14, 2013 on Global
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