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The Ark – characters talkling in broad Mancunian accents – led by David Threlfall, children defying their parents and gallivanting the night away, and the whole thing filmed in a 2.35:1 cinemascope-style widescreen ratio to …
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Coalition – The DVDfever Review
Coalition is a Channel 4 drama based on the week following the 2010 UK general election, as Labour came to the end of a chequered 13-year term in government, with the Tories snapping at their …
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Fortitude Episode 10 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 10 begins with Henry enjoying the only thing you can enjoy about this dire series – the snowy hilltops on a clear day, as he listens to his old-fangled Sony Walkman. Lorcan Cranitch …
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La Couchette – Inside No.9 Series 2 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
La Couchette, the first episode of series 2 of Inside No.9, wasn’t just looking at who lives at No.9, but more specifically, 9A, 9B and so on up until 9F, since it took place in …
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Ordinary Lies Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Ordinary Lies last night broadcast its first episode in this new drama series, from writer Danny Brocklehurst (Clocking Off, Shameless, The Driver), following in the footsteps of Clocking Off where each episode revolves around a …
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Fortitude Episode 8 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 8 begins in the aftermath of Shirley vomiting into her Mum’s stomach, and she’s now outside… in the FREEZING cold, barefoot and bloodstained. Whatever she’s been doing in the interim, it’s happened offscreen, …
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Critical Series 1 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Critical Series 1 Episode 2 and aother day, another near-death inside the impossibly clean hospital, where no-one smokes outside in the No Smoking area – unlike any other hospital I’ve been in… Today’s patient is …
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Fortitude Episode 7 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 7 takes us past the halfway point and I was promised this episode would FINALLY be good! That would make the first one, so far, then. It’s Chrrrrrrrrriiiisssttmaaaaaaassss! As Noddy Holder might say. …
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The Casual Vacancy Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
The Casual Vacancy Episode 3 finally puts itself out of its misery, and a good job too as, quite frankly, over the course of these three weeks I could’ve pulled a better story out of …
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Fortitude Episode 6 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 6 starts with a flashback, jumping a few episodes back to when Frank was having it away with Elena. Jules is seen heading out without a hat on, and is chanced upon by …
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