The Legacy Season 3 is a series I was in, initially, two minds about watching. I loved the first one, but found the second treaded water far too much, as if they’d run out of …
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The Handmaid’s Tale Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – The Amish version of Prison Break!
The Handmaid’s Tale is the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood‘s novel, which I remember seeing on the big screen in the 1990 movie, starring Natasha Richardson and Faye Dunaway while I was at Keele University. …
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The Pyramid At The End Of The World – Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 7 – The DVDfever Review
The Pyramid At The End Of The World picks up where Extremis left off, with the baddie monks with no nose… so how do they smell? Oh… I made that joke last week. Well, if …
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Paula Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – BBC Drama – Fatal Attraction meets F.E.A.R.
Paula is a chemistry teacher who’s not having much luck in the men dept. Her best hope of late is having an affair with PE teacher Phiip, who’s married, then she discovers a rat infestation …
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White Gold Episode 1 – Salesmen Are Like Vampires – The DVDfever Review
White Gold is so ’80s that it even starts with the BBC2 ident from that era. The year is 1983 – my favourite year for music as that’s when I started buying singles, so one …
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Extremis – Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 6 – The DVDfever Review
Extremis – or, rather, In extremis – is Latin for “in the farthest reaches” or “at the point of death”. How about a load of confusing rubbish that shows Steven Moffat at his most self-indulgent? …
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Three Girls – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Molly Windsor
Three Girls takes place over three nights on BBC1 and is based on a true story. The story began with schoolgirl Holly (Molly Windsor) being assaulted in the local ‘Top Curry’ takeaway, her father, Jim …
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Oxygen – Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 5 – The DVDfever Review
Oxygen is the one thing lacking when The Doctor, Bill and Nardole arrive on a spaceship… despite the fact they can walk about due to artificial gravity PLUS they can breathe due to an air …
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King Charles III – The DVDfever Review – A perfect epitaph to Tim Pigott-Smith
King Charles III – the title made me think “What? Another labourious period drama? …Oh, hang on, we’ve never had a third King Charles”. And then the penny dropped. Mike Bartlett has adapted his own …
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Loaded Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Loaded is a new sitcom/drama (it’s not just a sitcom because it lasts longer than 30 mins) which centres on four friends – Josh (Jim Howick – Broadchurch, Stag), Leon (Samuel Anderson – Danny Pink …
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