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Painkiller is new six-part Netflix series, and while this is a drama, based on real events and with some fictionalised scenes, it’s initially introduced by the mother of Christopher Trejo, who was prescribed Oxycontin, and …
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Category: TV Series
Alone – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 reality gameshow
Alone starts with a naked man walking through the forest… so, make sure you’ve finished your dinner by the time this starts. We learn he’s on the edge of the arctic circle, although I don’t …
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Wolf – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Ukweli Roach
Wolf begins with a person in a complete Hazmat suit dragging a body across field, then stabbing it, as if to make clear that they’re not in the right mind. Then cut to cop Jack …
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The Power of Parker – The DVDfever Review – BBC comedy – Conleth Hill, Sian Gibson
The Power of Parker is set in Stockport, 1990, beginning with one of titular character’s terrible-looking TVs adverts for his electrical store, to mimic those of the era. As things begin, thankfully, it’s only a …
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The Sixth Commandment – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Timothy Spall
The Sixth Commandment opens with the text… “This is a true story. What follows is based on extensive research, interviews and published accounts, with some scenes created for dramatic purposes” I’d never heard of this …
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Heat (2023) – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Danny Dyer
Heat doesn’t have any signs of Al Pacino or Robert De Niro, but instead, Danny Dyer stars as Danny Dyer, taking a holiday in the outback at a friend’s very posh house with his family. …
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Blindspot – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Beth Alsbury, Ross Kemp
Blindspot is a new four-parter drama from Channel 5, most recently giving four hours of airtime to Jo Joyner, with Rachel Shenton trying to act like Rebecca De Mornay from The Hand That Rocks The …
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Then You Run – The DVDfever Review – Sky Max – Leah McNamara, Richard Coyle
Then You Run is a long-awaited drama Sky drama, in that it’s taken a long time to come to air, since it was first announced back around the start of 2023. We begin in 2005, …
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The Horror of Delores Roach – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Justina Machado
The Horror of Delores Roach finds that for the titular lead, played by Six Feet Under‘s Justina Machado, her life has gone to hell in a handcart. She was locked up in prison for 16 …
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Wham! – The DVDfever Review – Netflix documentary – George Michael
is the mono-worded Netflix documentary which tells the tale of how the pop band came to be, charting its rise…. and fall, once George Michael decided he was, after all, planning to go solo, which …
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