The Revenge Club is one of those dramas which starts with a ‘present day’ scene, then goes back to show everything that happened, as Emily Hunter (Aimee-Ffion Edwards – Mr Burton) is being interviewed by …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SPECIAL MEASURES (Play For Today) on CHANNEL 5!
Special Measures is what’s happened to the school features in this fourth and final drama of the Play For Today series. With everyone on stress farm, one teacher has quit on the day that they …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE WAR BETWEEN THE LAND AND THE SEA on BBC1!
The War Between The Land And The Sea finally drifts up on BBC1’s shores… Is it the catch of the day, or does it smell a bit fishy? As a Doctor Who spin-off, the BBC …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of KNOCK AT THE DOOR (Play For Today) on CHANNEL 5!
Knock At The Door is the third of four Play For Today episodes, and gives us Alan Davies (Jonathan Creek) as former comedian Lenny Bray, with some footage of Davies, himself, on stage when he …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE ABANDONS on NETFLIX!
The Abandons tells of warring families in the Old West, set in the 1850s, so a few decades before the time of Red Dead Redemption 2 and Arthur Morgan. One family’s cattle have been slaughtered …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SAY NOTHING on CHANNEL 4!
Say Nothing comes hot on the heels of with Trespasses, another drama where you need to put the subtitles on, since these garish, Northern Ireland-acted accents will split your ears. Okay, some of the cast …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of PRISONER 951 on BBC1!
Prisoner 951 is based upon the first-hand accounts both Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her husband, Richard, who was locked up for almost six years against her will when she’d done nothing wrong, with treatment that was …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of BIG WINNERS (Play For Today) on CHANNEL 5!
Big Winners is the second episode of the revived Play For Today, with Sue Johnston and Paul Copley as elderly couple Edith and Arthur Thistle, who’ve clearly been married for a long time and have …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO on SKY ATLANTIC!
The Death Of Bunny Monro is a weird one, but then it comes from the mind of Nick Cave, who never writes anything straight-forward, although I’ve only come across his music before now. Matt Smith …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of COOPER AND FRY on CHANNEL 5!
Cooper And Fry is another mismatched cops drama, where in this case, DC Diane Fry’s (Mandip Gill, who I first saw in Doctor Who when it was circling the drain, before the last two series …
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