This Town comes from the pen of Steven Knight, who brought us Peaky Blinders – a series I’ve still to see. Opening on Lozells Road, Birmingham in 1981, before it moves on to Falls Road, …
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Category: TV Series
A Gentleman in Moscow – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Ewan McGregor
A Gentleman in Moscow is a new 8-part drama with Ewan McGregor (Raymond And Ray) in the titular role of Alexander Rostov. First up, we’re told that the 1917 Revolution in Russia led to the …
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The Twelve – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Sam Neill
The Twelve centres around a murder trial, with the suspect being artist Kate Lawson (Kate Mulvany – Elvis), accused of killing her 14-year-old niece, Claire Spears (Coco Jack Gillies – Mad Max: Fury Road), except …
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Big Mood – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Nicola Coughlan
Big Mood is a new vehicle for Derry Girls‘ Nicola Coughlan (Barbie) as Maggie, where her opening gambit is to go back to her old school that’s “like Grange Hill, but somehow less glamourous” to …
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Passenger – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Wunmi Mosaku
Passenger sees ITV breaking out the A.I. script generator marked “cop drama”, this time even asking it to include “Twin Peaks” feelings, to the point where someone even references David Lynch’s bizarro world, claiming the …
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Twisted Metal – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Anthony Mackie
Twisted Metal comes to Paramount+ after last year’s debut in the US on Peacock, and is based on the videogame from quite some time ago, although it does get an early reference in this show …
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Coma – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Jason Watkins
Coma starts with Simon Henderson (Jason Watkins – Wicked Little Letters) seeing an old man being kicked to the ground by a bunch of yobs, and that’s actually quite timely, given how I saw the …
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Love Rat – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Sally Lindsay
Love Rat sees Emma (Sally Lindsay – Cold Call, The Madame Blanc Mysteries) and Pete (Neil Morrissey) having split up, him looking like he’s just nipped off the set of Finders Keepers for five minutes. …
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Newark Newark – The DVDfever Review – BBC comedy – Morgana Robinson
Newark Newark – so good they named it… as it’s mostly set around the life of single mother Maxine (Morgana Robinson – Everyone Else Burns), trying to bring up teenage son Leslie (Jai Hollis) the …
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Supersex – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Rocco Siffredi
Supersex: Rocco Siffredi – Love him or hate him, you can’t help but envy that he’s managed to do the do with more women in a day, than most men will in a lifetime. This …
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