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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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE LAST OF US SEASON 2!
The Last Of Us Season 2 will cover half of the second game in the series, The Last Of Us Part II, with Season 3 already having been confirmed as being commissioned, because it’ll get …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of LOCKERBIE: A SEARCH FOR TRUTH!
Lockerbie: A Search For Truth opens in May 2002 as Dr Jim Swire (Colin Firth) is going to see a particular individual person in prison, before flashing back to December 21st 1988, the fateful day …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DUNE PROPHECY!
Dune Prophecy is a prequel to both Dune Part One and Dune Part Two – well, the story to be told would last rather longer than a single movie, set over 100 centuries beforehand, and …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE DAY OF THE JACKAL (2024)
The Day Of The Jackal (2024) is a slightly more modern take on the Frederick Forsyth novel, although while this TV series version often does have a stylish look to it as if it was …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SWEETPEA on Sky Atlantic!
Sweetpea centres around Rhiannon Lewis (Ella Purnell – Fallout), who tells us in the opening narration how she wants to kill manspreaders, Donna in the mini-market who is never ‘happy to help’, Norman at work …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE PENGUIN on HBO/Sky Atlantic!
The Penguin is the long-awaited spin-off from 2022’s unimaginitively-titled The Batman, opening with the news that a number of explosions have taken place, killing many people near Gotham’s seawall, thus affecting only its poorest neighbourhood, …
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