A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms takes place a century before Game Of Thrones, and centres around Ser Duncan ‘Dunk’ the Tall (former Rugby Union player Peter Claffey – Harry Wild), the title being another …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of HEATED RIVALRY on SKY ATLANTIC!
Heated Rivalry: In December 2008, playing hockey on the ice rink, like The Flintstones, competing sports stars Russian Ilya (Connor Storrie) and Asian-Canadian Shane (Hudson Williams) are about to have a gay old time! In …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of AMADEUS on SKY ATLANTIC!
Amadeus is the same name as the 1984 movie, which I stll haven’t seen, but in 2025, the lead is played by Will Sharpe (Too Much), starting in Vienna, 1781, “ten years before Mozart’s death”. …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO on SKY ATLANTIC!
The Death Of Bunny Monro is a weird one, but then it comes from the mind of Nick Cave, who never writes anything straight-forward, although I’ve only come across his music before now. Matt Smith …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of ALL HER FAULT on SKY ATLANTIC!
All Her Fault opens with Marissa Irvine (Sarah Snook – Pieces of a Woman) coming to pick up her son, Milo, from a playdate, but there’s no Milo there. She also can’t get hold of …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of IT: WELCOME TO DERRY on SKY ATLANTIC / HBO!
IT: Welcome To Derry serves as prequel to IT Chapter One, and obviously, IT Chapter Two, and opens in December 1961, with Matty (Miles Ekhardt) exiting stage left from a cinema during a showing of …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE IRIS AFFAIR on SKY ATLANTIC!
The Iris Affair is one of those dramas that begins with something happening later in the story – here, as someone’s getting savagely beaten up – before going back to a previous point in time. …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE PAPER on SKY MAX!
The Paper… a new sitcom where the first thing I thought of when this began was, “It feels like The Office“… Then I read that it’s set in the same universe as that. Yes, because …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of ATOMIC on SKY!
Atomic introduces its locations, such as Sahara Desert, Algeria, as “a smuggling route”, and then Caucasus Mountains, Russia, as “a Russian smuggling route”, and similar as it globetrots a bit. As we first meet Max …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of CLEANER on SKY CINEMA!
Cleaner… Window Cleaner… that’s the job of Joey (Daisy Ridley), who’s late for work because she’s a slacker, but also just happens to be ex-army, which is mentioned because it’s bound to come up, later. …
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