Destination X… another TV gameshow, with staged conversations between the contestants, as a group of supposedly random bods are sat next to each other in the airport, trying to guess whether or not they’re all …
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Unforgivable – The DVDfever Review – Anna Friel, Jimmy McGovern
Unforgivable is a new one-off Jimmy McGovern drama which deals with the tough issue of child abuse. Joe Mitchell (Bobby Schofield – The Walk-In) has been in prison for sexually-abusing his nephew, Tom (Austin Haynes …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE ASSASSIN on AMAZON PRIME VIDEO!
The Assassin puts Keeley Hawes (Crossfire) in the unlikely situation of being a hitwoman, albeit retired in the present day, in Greece. Going back to Bulgaria, 1994, in her early days of hitwomaning, where she …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of UNTAMED on NETFLIX!
Untamed opens with some Vertical Limit-style mountain shenanigans, as two mountain climbers get a shock to the system, when a friend drops in… Okay, not quite a friend, but a woman’s body appears to fall …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of TOO MUCH on NETFLIX!
Too Much is a new Netflix comedy/drama which has already committed the cardinal sin of making me think of the 1997 Spice Girls No.1 Xmas single, even though it has nothing to do with it, …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DEXTER: RESURRECTION!
Dexter: Resurrection leads on directly from Dexter: New Blood‘s finale. Well, we’ve already seen at the start of Dexter: Original Sin how Michael C Hall‘s character was saved in the emergency room, but after 10 …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of BALLARD on AMAZON PRIME VIDEO!
Ballard… Renée Ballard… This is a spinoff from Bosch, a series I haven’t seen before, but it opens with the titular cop, played by Maggie Q (Allegiant: The Divergent Series), chasing baddie Windel with a …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SMOKE on APPLE TV+!
Smoke centres around fireman-turned arson investigator Dave Gudsen (Taron Egerton – Carry-On), who changed his job because he’d put himself in danger one too many times. He’s involuntarily partnered with cop Michelle Calderone (Jurnee Smollett, …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of COUNTDOWN!
Countdown sadly doesn’t feature Series 91’s potential finalist, Amy Berry, from the popular Channel 4 daytime quiz that’s been running since 1982 and was their first ever programme, but that’s my cross to bear. Still, …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of TRANSACTION!
Transaction is the latest TV project to come across as a diversity box-ticking exercise, following Pushers and whatever passed for the last couple of series Doctor Who. Hey, it starts well, with hearing Ave Maria. …
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