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. …
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The 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 …
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The 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 …
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Cuffs 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 …
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Jekyll 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 …
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The 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 …
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Fargo 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 …
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The 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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River Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
River is a drama I was looking forward to from when I first saw the trailer, but as with the recent From Darkness, this is another case of the BBC going through a phase of …
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Before The Flood – Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 4 – The DVDfever Review
Before The Flood begins with The Doctor talks about going back in time to meet Beethoven in a situation he refers to as “The Bootstrap Paradox”, going back to a time when no-one had ever …
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