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Sweetpea centres around Rhiannon Lewis (Ella Purnell – Fallout), who tells us in the opening narration how she wants to kill manspreaders, Donna in the mini-market who is never ‘happy to help’, Norman at work …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE HARDACRES on Channel 5!
“We’re The Hardacres, love, and we haven’t had any dinner!” is what I was expecting Mary Hardacre (Claire Cooper) to say, as she set out her declaration at the end of this opening episode… Channel …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of PHILLIP SCHOFIELD: CAST AWAY on Channel 5!
Phillip Schofield is a MASSIVE LIAR! He said Cast Away is the first time he’s been in front of a camera since being fingered at This Morning. No, you also did that BBC interview with …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of NOBODY WANTS THIS on NETFLIX!
Nobody Wants This is a romcom drama where Joanne (Kristen Bell – The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window) has an unsuccessful love life, with her latest date …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE WIVES on Channel 5!
The Wives opens with Beth Morgan (Jo Joyner – For Her Sins) looking for Annabelle, wife of Charlie, who’s gone missing and her mobile is left at the top of the cliff… One year later, …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of LUDWIG on BBC1!
Ludwig – aka John Taylor (David Mitchell – Migration 3D), is an introvert who does all kinds of puzzles, crosswords, logic puzzles, sudoku et al. Yep, a massive nerd. He’s basically Peep Show‘s Mark Corrigan …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE PENGUIN on HBO/Sky Atlantic!
The Penguin is the long-awaited spin-off from 2022’s unimaginitively-titled The Batman, opening with the news that a number of explosions have taken place, killing many people near Gotham’s seawall, thus affecting only its poorest neighbourhood, …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of NIGHTSLEEPER on BBC1!
Nightsleeper initially looks a bit like Apple TV’s Hijack, but on a plane. That series was pretty daft and I parachuted out after a couple of episodes. Can this one improve upon that? The Ipcress …
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The Teacher Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Kara Tointon
The Teacher Series 2 – or Teacher 2: Electric Boogaloo, as I might call it – is a separate story from Sheridan Smith’s situation in 2022, which concluded in the most ridiculous and cliched manner …
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The Tower Series 3 – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Gemma Whelan
The Tower Series 3 – subtitled Gallowstree Lane, where the initial scene takes place – follows on from last year’s second series, but it’s 20 months later, plot-wise, and opening with a summary that includes …
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