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I Know What You Did Last Summer is the TV adaptation of a movie from over 20 years ago which wasn’t that brilliant in the first place. It begins with Lennon (a woman’s name? Seriously?), …
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My Name – The DVDfever Review – Netflix South Korean thriller – So-hee Han
My Name My Name centres around Jiwoo Yoon (So-hee Han), who’s clearly had to stay back a few years, because the actress is 26, yet the character is still a schoolgirl, and early on, we …
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The Madame Blanc Mysteries – The DVDfever Review – Sally Lindsay – Channel 5 drama
The Madame Blanc Mysteries centres around Jean White (Cold Call‘s Sally Lindsay, who also created and co-wrote this drama), whose husband, Rory, is driving his van in the South of France, but in a pre-credits …
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Complaints Welcome – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Tom Allen
Complaints Welcome is a new series that gets better as it goes on, so don’t panic immediately when you see loud, shouty prsenters walking around as if we’re trying to ring back Network 7 from …
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Squid Game – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – South Korean Battle Royale-style thriller
Squid Game is a series I’m late to, since it didn’t pop up as a forthcoming drama series on the Wikipedia list of everything they’re showing, and for the alphabetised individual countries, it’s way down …
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COBRA Season 2: Cyberwar – The DVDfever Review – Robert Carlyle
begins with a huge explosion in the sea, thanks to munitions stuck in a wreck under the water, before events go back to 24 hours earlier. As before, Robert Carlyle‘s Prime Minister Robert Sutherland is …
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Angela Black – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Joanne Frogatt
Angela Black is the title lead portrayed by Joanne Frogatt, someone for whom I could watch read the telephone directory, and that would make a great hour of television. However, she’s unlikely to ever take …
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The Larkins – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Bradley Walsh
The Larkins is a reboot of The Darling Buds of May, even though no-one was crying out for one. It comes just over 30 years since they were last on our screens in the guise …
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Ridley Road – The DVDfever Review – Agnes O’Casey, Rory Kinnear
Ridley Road has a dark heart to its storyline, taken from the novel by Jo Bloom, and with a screenplay by Sarah Solemani, usually best known for being onscreen in comedies like Him & Her …
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Maid – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Margaret Qualley, Andie MacDowell
Maid is a new Netflix series centred around young mother Alex (Margaret Qualley – Once Upon a Time In Hollywood), who’s escaped in the middle of the night from her abusive husband Sean (Nick Robinson …
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