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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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SUMMERWATER on CHANNEL 4!
Summerwater‘s trailer gave me the same feeling as 2019’s Deadwater Fell, where everything’s dark and mysterious, and no-one’s giving anything away. Five cabins. Four groups of people on holiday. A family who works in the …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of LANDMAN SEASON 2 on PARAMOUNT+!
Landman Season 2 is here, and which was confirmed as being renewed for this season in March 2025, although reportedly, Demi Moore (The Substance) had let the beans spil out of the bag before Season …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of WILD CHERRY on BBC1!
Wild Cherry is Rich People’s Problems – and TV For Women, taking place in Richford Lake, an affluent place to live, and split into two distinct areas, firstly Wetherford Estate, known as The Island, the …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of NEVER TOO LATE (Play For Today) on CHANNEL 5!
Never Too Late sees Channel 5 bringing back Play For Today, the BBC1 strand which ran from 1970 to 1984, where you’d get a series of one-off dramas, some of which even went on to …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE BEAST IN ME on NETFLIX!
The Beast In Me centres around Aggie Wiggs (Claire Danes – Brigsby Bear), a famous author who’s struggled to put a book out since 2018, which took a sleight about her estranged father. Her son, …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of TRESPASSES on CHANNEL 4!
Trespasses tells the tale of an illicit love between schoolteacher Cushla Lavery (Lola Petticrew) and an older man, Michael Agnew (Tom Cullen). She’s Catholic, he’s Protestant, and it’s 1975, the time during the Northern Ireland …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of PLURIBUS on APPLE TV!
Pluribus takes a while to get your head around its concept, but as we’re first introduced to its world, a mysterious virus is about to hit the Earth in just over 14 months’ time. Scientists …
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