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The Cuckoo sees Jessica Haynes (Claire Goose) looking for a house guest, even though they’re clearly quite affluent. Well, they have bills aplenty, and nutty Sian Gregson (Jill Halfpenny – Inside No.9) comes a-knocking at …
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Category: TV Series
Ripley – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Andrew Scott
Ripley… Tom Ripley. Yes, the character from The Talented Mr Ripley, the novel being written by Patricia Highsmith, but this time as an 8-part series, written and directed by Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List). Opening in …
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Sugar – The DVDfever Review – Apple TV+ – Colin Farrell
Sugar… ah, honey honey. No, there’s no time for a singalong, as Colin Farrell (The Banshees Of Inisherin) takes the lead in the first of two streaming dramas for 2024, as private eye John Sugar. …
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Parasyte: The Grey – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jeon So-nee
Parasyte: The Grey opens with the proposal that if you reduce the population to 1% of its size, would the poison in the water reduce by the same amount? Or, just cut the numbers down …
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This Town – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Steven Knight
This Town comes from the pen of Steven Knight, who brought us Peaky Blinders – a series I’ve still to see. Opening on Lozells Road, Birmingham in 1981, before it moves on to Falls Road, …
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A Gentleman in Moscow – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Ewan McGregor
A Gentleman in Moscow is a new 8-part drama with Ewan McGregor (Raymond And Ray) in the titular role of Alexander Rostov. First up, we’re told that the 1917 Revolution in Russia led to the …
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The Twelve – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Sam Neill
The Twelve centres around a murder trial, with the suspect being artist Kate Lawson (Kate Mulvany – Elvis), accused of killing her 14-year-old niece, Claire Spears (Coco Jack Gillies – Mad Max: Fury Road), except …
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Big Mood – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Nicola Coughlan
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 …
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Twisted 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 …
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