Derry Girls is set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, at a time not specified, but the first episode opens to the strains of Dreams by The Cranberries, which was released in May 1994, so …
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Arkangel – Black Mirror Series 4 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Arkangel is the second episode of Black Mirror Series 4, and is also the name of the tech company providing an intriguing trial device for worried mothers of small children. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames …
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Girlfriends Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Kay Mellor ITV drama
Girlfriends has quickly followed the ridiculously-titled Love, Lies and Records as another Kay Mellor drama to grace our screens, and the moment a dire cover of “Ain’t No Mountain Hugh Enough” boomed out over the …
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Zanzibar – Inside No.9 Series 4 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Zanzibar is the name of the hotel in which the first episode of Inside No.9 Series 4 is set, and it looks at the residents on the 9th floor. It’s a difficult episode to describe …
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McMafia Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – James Norton
McMafia centres around dodgy Russians, the mafia and money laundering, with James Norton (Flatliners), who’s in a pickle as his business is under threat from rumours about dodgy financial investments, and he’s looking for a …
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USS Callister – Black Mirror Series 4 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
USS Callister is the first of six new episodes which comprise Black Mirror Series 4 and begins with a Star Trek spoof – where Jesse Plemons (Fargo Season 2) makes for quite an amusing Captain …
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Kiri – The DVDfever Review – Sarah Lancashire
Kiri is a new four-part drama starring Sarah Lancashire as Miriam, a social worker who owns a dog with low-level depression, whom she dotes upon, and her visits to her mother, Celia (Sue Johnston), in …
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Vic and Bob’s Big Night Out – 2017 Christmas Special – The DVDfever Review
TROUSERS! Vic and Bob’s Big Night Out was one of my favourite shows on Channel 4 when it first aired in 1990, and it only ran for two series, yet stuck in my brain ever …
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Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom? – The DVDfever Review
Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom? is a new documentary about the radio sports presenter turned TV megastar… in Norwich. This documentary ‘celebrates’ Alan Patridge’s return to the BBC, next year reporting on …
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The Miniaturist: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Anya Taylor-Joy
The Miniaturist is set in Amsterdam, 1686, where Petronella, aka Nella (Split‘s Anya Taylor-Joy) is marrying sugar trader Johannes Brandt (Alex Hassell), and feels very much a fish out of water, even though she’s quite …
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