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" Ben Whishaw has declared that viewers will be &amp;quot;blown away&amp;quot; by The Hour&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;shocking and dark&amp;quot; second series.  The Skyfall actor reprises his role as reporter Freddie Lyon for the BBC Two drama, which delves behind the scenes of a current affairs programme in the 1950s.  Speaking to Digital Spy and other journalists, Whishaw praised writer Abi Morgan for doing an &amp;quot;amazing job&amp;quot; of taking The Hour to unsettling new places. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m really blown away,&amp;quot; he admitted. &amp;quot;I think it reaches a really brilliant climax. It&amp;#039;s quite shocking and quite dark. It goes into a slightly darker place, maybe than it&amp;#039;s gone before.&amp;quot; On the themes that will be explored in The Hour, Whishaw continued: &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a lot of ingredients. I suppose the main story is really about Soho and this underworld of crime, and again how that is connected to people in positions of power.  &amp;quot;The nuclear race is a big thing and Abi, again very cleverly, ties those two together. But in the background there&amp;#039;s also a sort of race issue and it touches briefly on something called the Wolfenden Report, which was a report into whether homosexuality should be legalised. So there&amp;#039;s a sexual morality theme as well.&amp;quot;  Whishaw added that Freddie will return a &amp;quot;quite different&amp;quot; character following his firing from the programme at the end of series one.  &amp;quot;[He&amp;#039;s] maybe a little better at playing the game or something, because he shoots himself in the foot quite a lot in the first series,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;So [he&amp;#039;s] maybe a bit wilier, a bit more political, a bit more understanding of the politics of a situation before he just charges in. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s sort of driven by Bel (Romola Garai). [She] has an almost kind of feminist concern with the girls who work at the Soho clubs, so she&amp;#039;s really driving the story at first and Freddie kind of is joining her story, so he&amp;#039;s sort of working more in collaboration with her&amp;quot;.  Whishaw also said that he would be disappointed if The Hour is not given the chance for a proper send-off. &amp;quot;I really loved the character,&amp;quot; he stated. &amp;quot;I never really had played anyone quite like Freddie, so it was a very easy decision and I really hope that we get to do a third one and finish the story off. &amp;quot;I think it would be sad if we didn&amp;#039;t. But that&amp;#039;s out of my control. I think that the BBC want to do a third one.&amp;quot; The Hour, which also stars Dominic West, Anna Chancellor and Julian Rhind-Tutt, returns on Wednesday (November 14) at 9pm on BBC Two in the UK.  The show will return in the US on Wednesday, November 28, airing on BBC America.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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