Bargain begins with a man, who I thought was having a first date in a clandestine hotel room situation, with a young 18-year-old woman, Park Joo Young (Jeon Jong-seo), who claims to be a virgin, …
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Category: TV Series
Payback – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Morven Christie, Peter Mullan
Payback is a new six-part thriller on ITV which has Jed Mecurio’s name attached to it – he who brought us the brilliant Line of Duty – yet, it’s not him writing the script, which …
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Partygate – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Georgie Henley
Partygate is something that shouldn’t have to exist, as a drama. However, it does, because we currently have the most corrupt bunch of bastards in power than I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. When the …
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Boiling Point (2023) – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Stephen Graham
Boiling Point (2023) follows on from the 2021 movie, which hasn’t yet aired on regular telly – the fact of which does seem rather an odd mis-step, but if you have Netflix, you can see …
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Gen V – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Jaz Sinclair, Lizze Broadway
Gen V is a spin-off from Prime Video’s The Boys, a series I haven’t seen, but hey, superhero movies and shows – how different can they be compared to the equivalent I’ve seen before many …
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The Long Shadow – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Daniel Mays, Toby Jones
The Long Shadow looks at the case regarding the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, in the ’70s. I was only a child at the time, but I still remember it being in the news. The opener …
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Still Up – The DVDfever Review – Apple TV+ – Antonia Thomas, Craig Roberts
Still Up centres around a man and a woman who regularly chat on the phone, even though we’re not told how their friendship came about, but we do know that they both suffer from insomnia, …
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The Continental: From The World Of John Wick – The DVDfever Review – Prime Video
The Continental: From The World Of John Wick is a three-part prequel to the Keanu Reeves movies, so will act as extending the franchise, along with 2024’s Ballerina, until John Wick Chapter 5 comes along. …
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Neighbours: A New Chapter – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Freevee
Neighbours: A New Chapter sees the long-running – then cancelled in 2022 – soap return to our TV sets, and in the UK, this is courtesy of Amazon Freevee, which means no subscription to Prime …
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Alan Carr’s Picture Slam – The DVDfever Review – BBC gameshow – Alan Carr
Alan Carr’s Picture Slam is, as you might guess, is presented by comedian Alan Carr, and is 45 minutes of ‘guess the picture’, basically, e.g. guess the celeb, which TV show is this, what snack …
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