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Invasion Season 2 is here, and it’s been almost two years since we had season 1. I never thought it was brilliant, but it started off tolerable, and then got progressively worse. So, why am …
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Category: TV Series
Shelter – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Harlan Coben
Shelter is the latest Harlan Coben novel to come to the small screen, the best of the recent ones I’ve seen being The Stranger on Netflix. The story first begins in New Jersey, 1998, where …
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Henpocalypse – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Elizabeth Berrington
Henpocalypse Henpocalypse sees a hen do going from bad to worse, as Bernadette (Elizabeth Berrington – The Responder)’s daughter, Zara (Lucie Shorthouse – We Are Lady Parts) is getting married, but first needs to jump …
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The Reunion – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Ioan Gruffudd
The Reunion has an opening episode which jumps back and forth in time, in which Ioan Gruffudd‘s (Titanic) younger equivalent of his Thomas character, played by Billy Gunnion, has a daliance with a young Russian …
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Painkiller – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Uzo Aduba, Matthew Broderick
Painkiller is new six-part Netflix series, and while this is a drama, based on real events and with some fictionalised scenes, it’s initially introduced by the mother of Christopher Trejo, who was prescribed Oxycontin, and …
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Alone – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 reality gameshow
Alone starts with a naked man walking through the forest… so, make sure you’ve finished your dinner by the time this starts. We learn he’s on the edge of the arctic circle, although I don’t …
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Wolf – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Ukweli Roach
Wolf begins with a person in a complete Hazmat suit dragging a body across field, then stabbing it, as if to make clear that they’re not in the right mind. Then cut to cop Jack …
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The Power of Parker – The DVDfever Review – BBC comedy – Conleth Hill, Sian Gibson
The Power of Parker is set in Stockport, 1990, beginning with one of titular character’s terrible-looking TVs adverts for his electrical store, to mimic those of the era. As things begin, thankfully, it’s only a …
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The Sixth Commandment – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Timothy Spall
The Sixth Commandment opens with the text… “This is a true story. What follows is based on extensive research, interviews and published accounts, with some scenes created for dramatic purposes” I’d never heard of this …
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Heat (2023) – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Danny Dyer
Heat doesn’t have any signs of Al Pacino or Robert De Niro, but instead, Danny Dyer stars as Danny Dyer, taking a holiday in the outback at a friend’s very posh house with his family. …
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