The Pentaverate is a new Netflix comedy where Mike Myers plays Ken, a reporter who’s an old letch, as well as all five members of a secret organisation, including Rupert Murdoch-like Bruce Baldwin, and Misha, …
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Clark – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Bill Skarsgård
Clark begins in 1947, in Trollhättan, Sweden, where our lead anti-hero is born, even reminiscing about being in the womb and not wanting to be locked up, citing his birth as “my first escape“. As …
Continue readingRichard Hammond’s Crazy Contraptions – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4
Richard Hammond’s Crazy Contraptions is a new show for Channel 4 which has a look of the ’80s BBC2 show, The Great Egg Race, which I loved as a kid. There are scores of chores …
Continue readingShining Girls – The DVDfever Review – Elisabeth Moss – Apple TV+
Shining Girls is a very bizarre tale, indeed. Starting in 1964, Harper (Jamie Bell) sits down in front of who I assume is a young Elisabeth Moss’ character (although I could be wrong, given how …
Continue readingDI Ray – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Parminder Nagra
DI Ray, not DI Voodoo Ray, sadly… that would be a cool prime-time drama. Portrayed by Parminder Nagra, she gets a shock when she witnesses a strange man running about with a knife, and not …
Continue readingOzark Season 4 Part 2 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jason Bateman
Ozark Season 4 Part 2 is almost here on Netflix. Yes, the final part of the finale! After this, there is no more! Naturally, I’ll avoid any major spoilers, even after the programme is available …
Continue readingBang Bang Baby – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime – Arianna Becheroni
Bang Bang Baby is a new Amazon Prime 10-part series where five episodes are available from this coming Thursday, with the remaining five due on May 19th. Set in 1986, it centres around Alice (Arianna …
Continue readingMr King – Inside No.9 Series 7 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Mr King is the second episode of Inside No.9 Series 7. Alan Curtis (Reece Shearsmith) has just started at a rural Welsh primary school to teach a class in his native English language, something they’re …
Continue readingHeartstopper – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Alice Oseman
Heartstopper begins with two teenage lads at school, Charlie Spring (Joe Locke) and Ben Hope (Sebastian Croft), who clearly fancy each other, but the course of true love doesn’t always run smoothly, and at Truham …
Continue readingChivalry – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Steve Coogan, Sarah Solemani
Chivalry is a new comedy drama which felt a bit odd to get into at first, because it feels like we’ve been dropped into a series halfway through it having already begun. But getting past …
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