The Last Post takes place in 1965 in Aden, Yemen, one of the oldest colonies in the British Empire. It’s a place where East meets West and with an oil refinery, it’s advertisted as a …
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The Commuter – Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
The Commuter is the third episode in Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams and is set in an era that feels like a mixture of ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, with decor jumping between all three. Having …
Continue readingThe Pact (2017) – The DVDfever Review – BBC2 Comedy pilot
The Pact (2017) centres around a male and female friend – Amy (Sarah Solemani – Him & Her, Bridget Jones’ Baby) and Andy (Brett Goldstein) who agree, as teenagers, to marry each other if they’ve …
Continue readingStar Trek: Discovery Episodes 1 and 2 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix
Star Trek: Discovery (or STD, for short… oh, hang on… I’ll just call it Discovery, then) begins with a far from original premise, but there are still surprises to come which, following this double bill, …
Continue readingThe Child In Time – The DVDfever Review – Benedict Cumberbatch BBC drama
The Child in Time is a one-off drama based on Ian McEwan‘s novel, presenting a Madeleine McCann-type situation beginning with Stephen Lewis (Benedict Cumberbatch), in a supermarket, turning his attention from four-year-old daughter Kate away …
Continue readingImpossible Planet – Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Impossible Planet is the second episode in Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams and is set far into the future when far more is known about the universe than in our present day, opening with Brian …
Continue readingFamalam – The DVDfever Review – BBC2 Comedy pilot
Famalam is a new one-off pilot sketch show which – with a cast made up solely from black comedians – instantly picks on a lame trope of ‘reverse racism’, where a black cast of space …
Continue readingBad Move Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Jack Dee sitcom
Bad Move sees Steve (Jack Dee) and Nicky (Kerry Godliman) making a ‘bad move’ because they sell up their house in the city and relocate to the country in what turns out to be a… …
Continue readingW1A Series 3 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
W1A enters its third series, so is doing brilliantly well, given that it was spawned from the two-series Twenty Twelve, which did for the London Olympics what The Thick Of It did for politics. That …
Continue readingStatic – Comedy Playhouse 2017 – The DVDfever Review
Static is the final of three Comedy Playhouse sitcoms and gets off to a bad start as one of the sitcoms where the ‘star’ can’t think of a name for his character, hence comedian Rob …
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