Invasion begins with a strange shape appearing in the desert, with the opener being titled “Last Day”. Y’see, the aliens are coming to town, hence the title. Cue an explosion before long, because aliens don’t …
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Category: TV Series
The Trick – The DVDfever Review – Jason Watkins – BBC Drama
The Trick centres around Phil Jones (Jason Watkins – Line of Duty), who was the keynote speaker at COP15, aka the Climate Change Conference 2009, in London. It deals with the subject of “Climategate”, in …
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I Know What You Did Last Summer – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime
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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