My Brilliant Career is Netflix’s adaptation for Miles Franklin‘s best known novel of the same name, released in 1901. Set the year before, in Australia, young lady Sybylla Melvyn (Philippa Northeast) comes to Caddagat, a …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of LUDWIG SERIES 2 on BBC1!
Ludwig Series 2 is here, and it continues to be one of the most improbable detective series on TV, whilst also being mindblowingly brilliant! Puzzle enthusiast John Taylor (David Mitchell) spent six episodes pretending to …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of RICKY GERVAIS’ ALLEY CATS on NEFTLIX!
Alley Cats is Ricky Gervais‘ return to the small screen, in which he appears alongside a group of his friends in animated feline form. Just so you know which page I’m on, it’s been a …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of POSSESSION on SKY ATLANTIC!
Possession sees the viewer having to take the leap into the pretence that hauntings exist. Lawyer Claudia McKenzie (Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Fuze) is tasked with looking into the estate of Alfred Connaught, who’s passed away, …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of LIONESS SERIES 3 on Paramount+!
Lioness Season 3 sees Joe (Zoe Saldana – Avatar: Fire And Ash) having yet another bad day, and like Terminator 2, this time it’s personal.. I won’t say how exactly, to avoid spoilers, but it …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of BENIDORM IS MURDER on CHANNEL 5!
Benidorm is Murder is a new six part, light-hearted drama, centred around bar owner and ex-cop Dennis (John Hannah – The Victim), who’s moved to a better climate in his later years, easily running a …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE RAPTURE on BBC1!
The Rapture… that thing that will never happen, yet it’s in some nonsense religious book that one day the mythical deity will cause Earth to burn, and only the righteous will be hurried off into …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE UNDECLARED WAR SERIES 2!
The Undeclared War Series 2 follows on from 2022’s first series, which I couldn’t finish because it was way too silly. Have they improved, this time? Well, to get us up to speed, the opener …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of ANN DROID on BBC1!
Ann Droid… where pensioner Sue (Sue Johnston – Fackham Hall) is in need of assistance round the house, now that her time in hospital is coming to an end, and since every man and his …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE TWISTED TALE OF AMANDA KNOX on ITV!
The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox… well, since she was eventually found innocent, what’s twisted about it? Anyhoo, in 2009, Amanda Knox (portrayed here by Grace Van Patten – Nine Perfect Strangers) was convicted of …
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