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The Pact (2017) centres around a male and female friend – Amy (Sarah Solemani – Him & Her, Bridget Jones’ Baby) and Andy (Brett Goldstein) who agree, as teenagers, to marry each other if they’ve …
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Category: TV Series
Star Trek: Discovery Episodes 1 and 2 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix
Star Trek: Discovery (or STD, for short… oh, hang on… I’ll just call it Discovery, then) begins with a far from original premise, but there are still surprises to come which, following this double bill, …
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The Child In Time – The DVDfever Review – Benedict Cumberbatch BBC drama
The Child in Time is a one-off drama based on Ian McEwan‘s novel, presenting a Madeleine McCann-type situation beginning with Stephen Lewis (Benedict Cumberbatch), in a supermarket, turning his attention from four-year-old daughter Kate away …
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Impossible Planet – Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Impossible Planet is the second episode in Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams and is set far into the future when far more is known about the universe than in our present day, opening with Brian …
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Famalam – The DVDfever Review – BBC2 Comedy pilot
Famalam is a new one-off pilot sketch show which – with a cast made up solely from black comedians – instantly picks on a lame trope of ‘reverse racism’, where a black cast of space …
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Bad Move Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Jack Dee sitcom
Bad Move sees Steve (Jack Dee) and Nicky (Kerry Godliman) making a ‘bad move’ because they sell up their house in the city and relocate to the country in what turns out to be a… …
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W1A Series 3 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
W1A enters its third series, so is doing brilliantly well, given that it was spawned from the two-series Twenty Twelve, which did for the London Olympics what The Thick Of It did for politics. That …
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Static – Comedy Playhouse 2017 – The DVDfever Review
Static is the final of three Comedy Playhouse sitcoms and gets off to a bad start as one of the sitcoms where the ‘star’ can’t think of a name for his character, hence comedian Rob …
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The Other One – The DVDfever Review – BBC2 Comedy
The Other One centres around two young women called Catherine Walcott (Ellie White and Lauren Socha), who only discover each other’s existence when their father, Colin (Simon Greenall) dies, much to the annoyance of their …
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Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams Episode 1 – The Hood Maker – The DVDfever Review
Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams begins the new 10-part series with The Hood Maker, airing on Channel 4 in the UK and Amazon in the US, and feels like their alternative to Charlie Brooker’s Black …
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