Big Mood is a new vehicle for Derry Girls‘ Nicola Coughlan (Barbie) as Maggie, where her opening gambit is to go back to her old school that’s “like Grange Hill, but somehow less glamourous” to …
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Passenger – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Wunmi Mosaku
Passenger sees ITV breaking out the A.I. script generator marked “cop drama”, this time even asking it to include “Twin Peaks” feelings, to the point where someone even references David Lynch’s bizarro world, claiming the …
Continue readingTwisted Metal – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Anthony Mackie
Twisted Metal comes to Paramount+ after last year’s debut in the US on Peacock, and is based on the videogame from quite some time ago, although it does get an early reference in this show …
Continue readingComa – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Jason Watkins
Coma starts with Simon Henderson (Jason Watkins – Wicked Little Letters) seeing an old man being kicked to the ground by a bunch of yobs, and that’s actually quite timely, given how I saw the …
Continue readingLove Rat – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Sally Lindsay
Love Rat sees Emma (Sally Lindsay – Cold Call, The Madame Blanc Mysteries) and Pete (Neil Morrissey) having split up, him looking like he’s just nipped off the set of Finders Keepers for five minutes. …
Continue readingNewark Newark – The DVDfever Review – BBC comedy – Morgana Robinson
Newark Newark – so good they named it… as it’s mostly set around the life of single mother Maxine (Morgana Robinson – Everyone Else Burns), trying to bring up teenage son Leslie (Jai Hollis) the …
Continue readingSupersex – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Rocco Siffredi
Supersex: Rocco Siffredi – Love him or hate him, you can’t help but envy that he’s managed to do the do with more women in a day, than most men will in a lifetime. This …
Continue readingThe Gentlemen – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Guy Ritchie, Theo James
The Gentlemen is a new Guy Ritchie series for Netflix, as well as the title of his 2019 film, and while I haven’t seen that, then while the character names are different – along with …
Continue readingDead Hot – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime – Vivian Oparah, Bilal Hasna
Dead Hot is a new drama series on Amazon Prime, with apparently a hint of comedy, but… well, let’s see. Elliot (Bilal Hasna) – who works in a fancy dog-grooming parlour with a demanding boss …
Continue readingShogun – The DVDfever Review – Disney+ – Cosmo Jarvis, Anna Sawai
Shogun is a new version of the 1975 James Clavell novel, and I do remember seeing some of the 1980 TV adaptation with Richard Chamberlain, but then I was far too young to appreciate a …
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