The Devil’s Hour (2022)is a dark psychological thriller series in which a woman wakes up every night at exactly 3:33am, in the middle of the devil’s hour. The reason is slowly revealed in the first season, with the series continuing in season 2. This time, Lucy (Jessica Raine) and Gideon (Peter Capaldi) must form an uneasy alliance in order to prevent a recurring tragedy and hunt down an elusive monster.

Peter Capaldi is known for another role in which he travels through time, Doctor Who, but he is also a very recognizable actor with over one hundred roles under his belt. Jessica Raine is also no stranger to the screen, having most notably played Annie Quaintain in Jericho and Jenny Lee in Call the Midwife. The Devil’s Hour season 2 will launch exclusively on Prime Video globally on Friday, October 18.

Screen Rant interviewed Peter Capaldi and Jessica Raine about The Devil’s Hour season 2. The two reveal what they were most excited to explore with their characters this season, as well as how the positive reception from viewers has felt. Capaldi compares this series’ tone and time travel to Doctor Who, while Raine admits she would not go back to change something from her past if given the chance.

Peter Capaldi & Jessica Raine Are Thankful For The Response From The Devil’s Hour Viewers

“I was stopped all the time, and people wanted to not just say well done, but they really wanted to get into it, which I was really happy to do.”

Screen Rant: The Devil’s Hour seemed to instantly have a large fan base who were trying to put all the pieces of the puzzle together. How did that feel?

Peter Capaldi: It was lovely. It was a surprise. And that’s not because I had a diminished view of the show, it’s just you don’t expect, you don’t know what’s going to happen with anything that you do, whether people are going to engage with it or not. But the colossal scale of engagement was a delightful surprise.

Jessica Raine: Incredibly gratifying, because we all knew it was a great show, well, we hoped it would be, and then I saw it, and I thought it was great. We’ve got an International Emmy nomination, which I was absolutely gobsmacked about, and was thrilled. I was stopped all the time, and people wanted to not just say well done, but they really wanted to get into it, which I was really happy to do. Yeah, it was fantastic.

Both Actors Praise The Devil’s Hour Lead Director Johnny Allan

“You just have to play it scene for scene and leave it in the capable hands of Johnny Allan, our brilliant lead director.”

Screen Rant: The Devil’s Hour feels like several genres mashed together. Can you talk about getting to play with that?

Peter Capaldi: Well, I think we should really pay tribute to Johnny Allan, who’s our lead director, because it’s a show that works with a lot of different genres, but one of the things that it plays with is the psychological horror movie genre, and so there’s a kind of sense of unease in it, which is very difficult, I think, to generate. It takes a great deal of skill and preparation to do that, and that’s really a directorial thing. So we were very lucky to, in a way, you don’t really know that’s going on when you’re doing it. It’s sort of when you see it, you go, what? And then you get a fright. Why did I get a fright? I read the script, I knew what was going to happen. But then it’s a kind of carnival. You’re in a sideshow, and it’s weird and wonderful.

Jessica Raine: That’s what keeps it really exciting. I get super bored super easily. I can’t be in long running shows. But this is why this is such a delight, because it’s never formulaic. Really keeps on your toes. A constant challenge for me playing so many different characters, different Lucy’s, sorry, not different characters. But you can’t play the genre all the time. You just have to play it scene for scene and leave it in the capable hands of Johnny Allan, our brilliant lead director.

Would Peter Capaldi & Jessica Raine Change Something In Their Past If Given The Opportunity?

“If I’ve learned anything from The Devil’s Hour, it’s that a butterfly flaps its wings and everything changes.”

Screen Rant: For you both, personally, if you could go back and change something, would you?

Jessica Raine: I think I’d leave it. I do believe there’s no point looking back. If I’ve learned anything from The Devil’s Hour, it’s that a butterfly flaps its wings and everything changes.

Peter Capaldi: You’ll change that and you think you’ll make it better, but you won’t and something else will come along.

Jessica Raine: Things could get very dark very quickly.

Jessica Raine & Peter Capaldi Detail What They Were Most Excited To Explore In Season 2

“But there is a weird paternal thing starting to happen, which is interesting.”

Screen Rant: What were you most excited to explore with your characters in season 2?

Jessica Raine: For me, it was the physical aspect of getting to be really kick ass and do loads of fight scenes running around with guns. I do not condone guns. I hate them. But I mean, it was just so fun having blood capsules in your mouth, getting punched in the mouth, spitting it out, swearing, getting in tussles. From going from being, I mean, Lucy in series one was fairly powerless and clueless to what was going on, very frightened a lot of the time, to being very powerful. Detective Inspector Lucy, she’s much more in control and cold and tough, and the other Lucy is also more woken up and willing to go to great lengths to stop this horrific crime that’s going to happen. So yeah, the more tough, kick assness of both of them, I was really looking forward to diving into.

Peter Capaldi: I think I just enjoyed that we had much more of a spiky kind of relationship, rather than the, here’s the secret I’m going to reveal to you. We had a much more pragmatic, getting on with it, kind of snipping at each other, kind of thing. And also the beginning of, there is a strange bond that begins to develop between them, which we probably will go deeper into in season three. But there is a weird paternal thing starting to happen, which is interesting.

Peter Capaldi Compares Doctor Who & The Devil’s Hour

Both series feature him jumping through time, but one of the two has a smell of latex on set.

Screen Rant: Peter, this is not your first time jumping through time. How would you compare Doctor Who to The Devil’s Hour?

Peter Capaldi: Oh, well, The Devil’s Hour is darker. The Devil’s Hour has fewer happy endings. I would say that and there’s less smell of latex. I always say when I smell latex, I go back on the Doctor Who set because everybody was wrapped in latex at some point. There’s always some rubbery monster around. There’s less latex in The Devil’s Hour.

Jessica Raine: You wouldn’t want your kids watching.

About The Devil’s Hour Season 2

The Devil’s Hour Season Two sees Lucy (Jessica Raine) and Gideon (Peter Capaldi) forming an uneasy alliance in order to prevent a recurring tragedy and hunt down an elusive monster. Lucy’s double life sees her torn between family and duty as she finds herself in the crosshairs of her past-life husband, DI Ravi Dhillon (Nikesh Patel). Assisting Dhillon in his investigation is DS Sam Boyd (Saffron Hocking) who was mentored by DI Lucy Chambers in a previous life. Meanwhile, Isaac (Benjamin Chivers) is discovering new emotions every day and struggling to keep his balance in a reality that rejects his existence. Fresh mysteries unfold as our stories converge on one explosive moment that will change the fate of our characters for the rest of their ever-recurring lives.

The Devil’s Hour season 2 will launch exclusively on Prime Video globally on Friday, October 18.