Teenage Bounty Hunters is like an ’80s comedy movie turned into a 10-part series, which is often a better way to go these days, given that two hours isn’t long enough to tell the whole …
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Category: TV Series
Unsaid Stories – The DVDfever Review – Nicholas Pinnock, Amanda Abbington
Unsaid Stories is a new four-part series of 15-minute short dramas, similar to May’s Isolation Stories. Whereas they centred around… well, everyone having to isolate, this series is based around the Black Lives Matter movement. …
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Wizards: Tales of Arcadia – The DVDfever Review – Netflix
Wizards: Tales of Arcadia concludes a series I hadn’t heard of before seeing the trailer for this, but then a CGI animation for kids isn’t generally my bag. However, I saw this had the moniker …
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Semi-Detached – The DVDfever Review – Lee Mack
Semi-Detached is normally the type of a house, but in this case, it’s the name of a new Lee Mack sitcom, and thankfully, not one that canned ‘audience’ laughter like the largely awful Not Going …
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Rolling In It – The DVDfever Review – Stephen Mulhern – ITV Gameshow
Rolling In It is another prime-time gameshow where celebs of the day are used to take part in primary roles, except that on this occasion, real people are also involved. There’s one of each across …
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Little Birds – The DVDfever Review – Juno Temple, Hugh Skinner
Little Birds is based on the collection of infamous erotic short stories by Anaïs Nin, but even though they’re short stories, each episode still lasts an hour including adverts. Juno Temple (Horns, Away) is American …
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The Deceived – The DVDfever Review – Emmett J Scanlan – Channel 5 drama
The Deceived made me think – Oh, it’s Cillian Murphy… but it’s not, it’s Emmett J Scanlan, from Peaky Blinders, even though so is Cillian Murphy, but then I’ve never watched that. Ophelia (Emily Reid) …
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Prodigal Son – The DVDfever Review – Michael Sheen
Prodigal Son is so-called because it the lead character, Malcolm Bright (Tom Payne – The Physician), is the son of jailed mass-murderer Dr. Martin Whitly (Michael Sheen – Staged), a man known as ‘The Surgeon’, …
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A Suitable Boy – The DVDfever Review – Vikram Seth, Tabu
A Suitable Boy is set in Bramhpur, 1951, four years after the time when India became independent and was partitioned into two countries. We’re reminded early on that India was free, but the land and …
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Cursed – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Katherine Langford
Cursed comes before the King Arthur legend, with Nimue (Katherine Langford – Knives Out) wielding the sword… First, she’s spooked by birds circling in the sky, then a deer tells her that death is not …
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