Great Expectations is something I didn’t particularly have for yet another adaptation of a Charles Dickens novel. I’ve never read it, but for whatever reason, previews of this were available for big websites, but not …
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Better – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Leila Farzad
Better is a new BBC1 drama with a ridiculously non-descript title. Tell someone about it, and they’ll ask the title, you say “Better”, they’ll reply, “Pardon?” and then you have to describe it. God knows …
Continue readingThe Gold – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Hugh Bonneville
The Gold is another of those dramas which was “inspired by real events”, so will have to imagine conversations between certain characters because CCTV can’t be everywhere at once… 40 years ago, at least, whereas …
Continue readingMarie Antoinette – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Emilia Schüle
Marie Antoinette is a new 8-part drama about the lady who may or may not have declared, “Let them eat cake!”, but certainly wasn’t needing to be planning a 40th birthday party any time soon… …
Continue readingThe Bones of St Nicholas – Inside No.9 Series 8 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
The Bones of St Nicholas is the first episode of Inside No.9 Series 8, also doubling as a special Christmas episode. We first see Dr Jasper Parkway (Steve Pemberton) going into a church at which …
Continue readingThe Truth Commissioner – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Roger Allam
The Truth Commissioner stars The Thick Of It‘s Roger Allam as Henry Stanfield, a man whose job has effectively robbed him of his family life by dominating his time, and now he’s in Belfast dealing …
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