DI Ray Series 2 opens, like all good love stories, with a murder… in this case, finishing off crime boss Frank Chapman, alas with some collateral damage. I’d forgotten everything that happened in the first …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of RIVALS!
Rivals is set in a world where everyone’s all posh and hoity-toity, opening with a couple – the male half being Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell – Violent Night) – having a bit of “how’s your …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of JOAN on ITV!
Joan… Joan O’Connell… licence to be a jewel thief. Well, not really, as it’s not a legal act, but as we first see our lead, portrayed by Sophie Turner (X-Men: Dark Phoenix), she’s loaded, and …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DISCLAIMER on Apple TV+ !
Disclaimer is a tale of coincidence, where we first meet Sasha (Liv Hill – Elizabeth Is Missing) and Jonathan (Louis Partridge – Enola Holmes) interrailing in Italy, yet she’s called back to London following a …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of TOMB RAIDER: THE LEGEND OF LARA CROFT on Netflix!
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft makes me ask if this series can get our heroine right, where pretty much every film has got it wrong? Well, it has a rather wordy title, but …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of CITADEL: DIANA on Amazon Prime Video!
Citadel: Diana is the spin-off from last year’s over-expensive and under-delivering Citadel, opening with a scene where our heroine, played by Matilda De Angelis (The Undoing), kills someone off-camera and fakes being shot at, by …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of CURFEW on Paramount+ !
Curfew takes place in an alternate, dystopian world where all men are under curfew from 7pm to 7am daily, so women can trip the light fandango together, lording it up in front of us while …
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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 HARDACRES on Channel 5!
“We’re The Hardacres, love, and we haven’t had any dinner!” is what I was expecting Mary Hardacre (Claire Cooper) to say, as she set out her declaration at the end of this opening episode… Channel …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of PHILLIP SCHOFIELD: CAST AWAY on Channel 5!
Phillip Schofield is a MASSIVE LIAR! He said Cast Away is the first time he’s been in front of a camera since being fingered at This Morning. No, you also did that BBC interview with …
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