Sleep No More took place in Le Verrier Station, a laboratory in orbit around Neptune, an episode which we were told by the man who turned out to be the station’s sole survivor – Gagan …
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London Spy Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
London Spy is a new drama where, since all we saw in the trailer was Spectre‘s Ben Whishaw walking around London, I assumed he was the titular spy. However, Danny (Whishaw) had a far less …
Continue readingThe Zygon Inversion – Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 8 – The DVDfever Review
The Zygon Inversion is one possibility out of many which might or might not come about in an episode which tied itself in knots more than a few times. Clara’s world is all upside down. …
Continue readingThe Dresser (2015) – The DVDfever Review
The Dresser tells the story of something of which I have zero experience – working backstage at a touring Shakespearean theatre company. In a production of King Lear, the lead actor is bordering on insanity …
Continue readingThe Zygon Invasion – Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 7 – The DVDfever Review
The Zygon Invasion saw the Zygons… er… invade, returning after 2013’s 50th anniversary episode, The Day Of The Doctor, and forty years after their first appearance in 1975’s Terror of the Zygons. “Once upon a …
Continue readingCuffs Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Cuffs is, effectively, the BBC’s answer to the long-since-defunct The Bill. As it begins, PC Ryan Draper (Ashley Walters) is teamed up with rookie PC Jake Vickers (Jacob Ifan), and he has just 21 Seconds …
Continue readingJekyll and Hyde Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Jekyll and Hyde was first announced by the babbling continuity announcer with “contains some violence and scenes that young children might find upsetting”, so it’s going for the Doctor Who audience, then, although older viewers …
Continue readingThe Woman Who Lived – Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 6 – The DVDfever Review
The Woman Who Lived is an episode I had high expectations for. They’d brought in their biggest guest star of the series in Maisie Williams, showing up in The Girl Who Died as… the girl …
Continue readingFargo Season 2 Episode 1: Waiting For Dutch – The DVDfever Review
Fargo Season 2 began with Waiting for Dutch, with a rather odd little scene on the set of the bogus movie Massacre at Sioux Falls, starring then-actor Ronald Reagan, who wasn’t on screen at any …
Continue readingThe Girl Who Died – Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 5 – The DVDfever Review
The Girl Who Died begins the third consecutive two-parter in this series, which will be followed next week by the conclusion The Woman Who Lived, so you can see the connection there. It began with …
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