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Lawmen: Bass Reeves stars David Oyelowo (See How They Run) in the titular role of the real-life man who later became the first black Deputy US Marshal. It’s 1862, the time of the American Civil …
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Category: TV Series
All The Light We Cannot See – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Aria Mia Loberti
All the Light We Cannot See is a new Netflix 4-part mini series, based on the novel by Anthony Doerr, beginning in St Malo, Nazi-Occupied France, in August 1944. The US Army Air Forces, 565th …
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Banged Up – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Sid Owen, Johnny Mercer
Banged Up takes place in HMP Shrewsbury, which has been shut down for ten years and is about to get an influx of newcomers – a mix of celebs and real prisoners, one even teaching …
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Time Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Jodie Whittaker, Bella Ramsey
Time Series 2 brings the prison drama back to our screens after a blistering first three-parter with Sean Bean and Stephen Graham. Before we know what’s happened, one minute, we see single mother Orla (Jodie …
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Three Little Birds – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Lenny Henry
Three Little Birds is Lenny Henry’s Windrush drama, which he has created and co-written by Lenny Henry, best known to the kid me as being on Tiswas and then his own sketch show, before later …
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The Burning Girls – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Samantha Morton
The Burning Girls starts off in 1556, in the Chapel Croft Village, Sussex, where two girls are being burned at the stake. So, not exactly a family-friendly start to the proceedings, and then fast-forward to …
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Bodies – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Stephen Graham
Bodies is a new 8-part drama where a dead body is found in four different timelines, but it’s actually the same body! Starting in 2023, cop Shahara Hasan (Amaka Okafor – Grace) is on the …
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Lessons in Chemistry – The DVDfever Review – Apple TV+ – Brie Larson
Lessons in Chemistry begins with Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson – Fast X) hosting a cookery show, a la Delia Smith in the ’80s, but since this is set during the ’60s, programmes are filmed live …
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The Good Ship Murder – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Catherine Tyldesley
The Good Ship Murder is a new escapist whodunit drama from Channel 5, led by Jack Grayling, former cop and now the lounge cabaret singer on this luxury Mediterranean cruise ship. Catherine Tyldesley (Scarborough, Viewpoint) …
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The Fall Of The House Of Usher – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Carla Gugino
The Fall of the House of Usher is a new 8-part Netflix series, as well as the title of one of Edgar Allen Poe‘s short stories, and as I see the episode listing coming up, …
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