Squid Game is a series I’m late to, since it didn’t pop up as a forthcoming drama series on the Wikipedia list of everything they’re showing, and for the alphabetised individual countries, it’s way down …
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COBRA Season 2: Cyberwar – The DVDfever Review – Robert Carlyle
begins with a huge explosion in the sea, thanks to munitions stuck in a wreck under the water, before events go back to 24 hours earlier. As before, Robert Carlyle‘s Prime Minister Robert Sutherland is …
Continue readingAngela Black – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Joanne Frogatt
Angela Black is the title lead portrayed by Joanne Frogatt, someone for whom I could watch read the telephone directory, and that would make a great hour of television. However, she’s unlikely to ever take …
Continue readingThe Larkins – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Bradley Walsh
The Larkins is a reboot of The Darling Buds of May, even though no-one was crying out for one. It comes just over 30 years since they were last on our screens in the guise …
Continue readingRidley Road – The DVDfever Review – Agnes O’Casey, Rory Kinnear
Ridley Road has a dark heart to its storyline, taken from the novel by Jo Bloom, and with a screenplay by Sarah Solemani, usually best known for being onscreen in comedies like Him & Her …
Continue readingMaid – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Margaret Qualley, Andie MacDowell
Maid is a new Netflix series centred around young mother Alex (Margaret Qualley – Once Upon a Time In Hollywood), who’s escaped in the middle of the night from her abusive husband Sean (Nick Robinson …
Continue readingHollington Drive – The DVDfever Review – Anna Maxwell Martin – ITV drama
Hollington Drive centres around a very well-to-do family – the parents being Theresa (Anna Maxwell Martin) and Fraser (Rhashan Stone) – in a big, posh house, although if I had a ‘back door’ with massive …
Continue readingMidnight Mass – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Zach Gilford, Kate Siegel
Midnight Mass is a new seven-part series on Netflix, begining with Book I: Genesis, so there’s the religious connection, since that’s how the episode titles go. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. …
Continue readingFoundation – The DVDfever Review – Jared Harris – Apple TV+
Foundation is yet another drama set in a post-apocalyptic-style world, everything’s dying, mankind is doomed, etc. A female voiceover (yet to be revealed) tells us how she wants to know about the universe, then travels …
Continue readingHelp – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Jodie Comer, Stephen Graham
Help is a look at how the social care system in the UK had to adjust to the hell we were all put through as a result of the COVID19 virus which reached our shores …
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