Annika is the character portrayed by Nicola Walker from The Last Train, and as a newly-promoted Detective Inspector, the body found in the Clyde will certainly challenge Annika… What’s odd, initially, is how she breaks …
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3 by 3 (aka Hold On Tight) – Inside No.9 Series 8 Episode 5 – The DVDfever Review
3 by 3 is the fifth episode of Inside No.9 Series 8. And although the episode title of Hold On Tight was advertised, at 10pm, it was introduced with “In a change to the publish …
Continue readingSteeltown Murders – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Philip Glenister
Steeltown Murders is one of those dramas which is based on real events, but with additional scenes createed. You know the drill. It’s set in both 1973, and early 2000s, so I figured when we …
Continue readingTen Pound Poms – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Michelle Keegan
Ten Pound Poms got me early on, when the trailer made me giggle with everyone arriving in Australia in 1956, and Faye Marsay’s character observing, “You don’t see that in Stockport”, although it goes one …
Continue readingLove Is A Stranger – Inside No.9 Series 8 Episode 4 – The DVDfever Review
Love Is A Stranger is the fourth episode of Inside No.9 Series 8. Vicky (Claire Rushbrook) lives at No.9, and trying online speed dating – which I didn’t know was a thing – first talking …
Continue readingBlack Ops – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Gbemisola Ikumelo, Hammed Animashaun
Black Ops centres around two PCSOs, aka Police Community Support Officers, who can’t arrest a scrote who’s just attacked a security guard, thus pointing themselves out to be a complete waste of space. Since it …
Continue readingParaskevidekatriaphobia – Inside No.9 Series 8 Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the third episode of Inside No.9 Series 8. The word means to have a fear of Friday 13th. For me, that date is the only time things DO go right for me! Dom …
Continue readingMother’s Ruin – Inside No.9 Series 8 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Mother’s Ruin is the second episode of Inside No.9 Series 8, since The Bones of St Nicholas was the first episode, as well as the Christmas edition. Events initially look like two burglars are breaking …
Continue readingColin From Accounts – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Harriet Dyer, Patrick Brammall
Colin From Accounts is an Australian comedy coming to BBC2, where neither of the principal leads – creators/writers Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer – are called Colin? Well, there’s a bit of setup – also …
Continue readingBlue Lights – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Sian Brooke
Blue Lights centres around newbie cop PC Grace Ellis (Sian Brooke – No Return, Stephen), who’s just retrained after a long career in social service. Quite why she would is anyone’s guess, given that working …
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