‘The Devil’s Hour’ Recap: ‘After the Storm’

Written by John Edward Betancourt

Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episode Four of ‘The Devil’s Hour’. To revisit the previous episode, click here.
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It is definitely safe to say, that the Prime Video series, The Devil’s Hour, leans heavily upon one particular storytelling concept. Specifically, misdirection. Because time and time again, it has made a point of leading us down one path, only to surprise us by revealing another and this isn’t a bad thing by any means. Because it keeps us on our toes and keeps us engaged since we are not only dying to know what surprises await us, but we are quite curious as to whether or not those very surprises will reveal Gideon’s secrets and purpose in this story and well… the show’s ability to continuously surprise us is top of mind today, simply because misdirection was on display again. 
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For ‘After the Storm’ is a story that made it appear as though, life was about to go on. After all, Isaac was home now and safe again, and Mike was trying to get involved as a father at last, and Lucy was back at work, doing her thing. As for Ravi, he was moving onto new cases since this whole matter was in essence done. Leading all of us to believe for a moment that there might be no more darkness in this show. Just good times and reflection and somehow, the possibility that the whole mess with Gideon could be related to a fever dream or more of the strange mental gifts that Isaac and Lucy seemed to share.

But another case for Lucy, one that offered up some of those visions, took this story in a wild new direction. Wherein, Lucy came to realize that something horrible was going to happen if she didn’t take the time to try and save a young man that was in distress. And of course, she got Ravi and Nick involved in the search and sadly… all roads in this mess, led to complete and utter violence and darkness. Since an attempt to question the young man’s girlfriend led to all out combat between Nick and Ravi and the gangsters she hung with. Which put Nick out of commission for a moment with injury and of course, this wasn’t the only ugliness to come out of this particular mess.

Because eventually, Lucy decided to take her powers into her own hands and try to save this young man herself, which apparently, she did. Since a strange car avoided him on the night, she had a feeling something bad would have happened to him and that… led to all kinds of surprises. The kind that began to bring this story together after all. For Ravi was able to chase the car down and it just so happened that Gideon was the driver and angry at this change in plan. For later on, in that interrogation room, he made it clear… that this young man was a problem and much of what Gideon did was solve problems and had everything played out as it was supposed to… the big shocker of the story would not have occurred.

Since we also came to learn, that this young man, had to offer penance to the gang that Ravi and Nick brought down in an effort to find him, and he did… and the story will never be the same. But while we wait to explore the fallout of that, we can in fact, celebrate another epic tale from this series. One that really did a fine job of surprising us in every way imaginable and of course… the whole ‘Gideon is a savior’ thing is quite the juicy plot twist. One that has us wondering what kind of calamities he is trying to prevent before it is too late and well, that definitely compels us to continue the journey post haste, so we can learn all of those things as we inch closer to the finale of this fascinating thriller. Until next time.

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