Sherwood… no, it’s not another Robin Hood reboot, but actually a drama based on a true story about two killings in the Nottinghamshire mining community where the author grew up, but certain elements have been …
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Category: TV Series
Everything I Know About Love – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Bel Powley
Everything I Know About Love begins in 2012 with 24-year-old Maggie (Emma Appleton – The Witcher) on the train to “start her adult life” from Manchester to London. She meets a know-it-all and rather hippy-ish …
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Avoidance – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Romesh Ranganathan
Avoidance is a new drama on BBC1 starring the omnipresent Romesh Ranganathan as Romesh Ranganathan (Cinderella 2021). Okay, his character is called Jonathan, but in this, his partner, Claire (Jessica Knappett), is splitting up from …
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Borgen: Power and Glory – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Sidse Babett Knudsen
Borgen: Power and Glory is technically released as Season 4 of the original drama, Borgen, in Denmark, but for some reason, in the UK and via Netflix, we’re getting it with a new moniker. Many …
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Wise Owl – Inside No.9 Series 7 Episode 6 – The DVDfever Review
Wise Owl is the sixth and final episode of Inside No.9 Series 7. This series finale opens with a ‘Charlie Says’-type animation, with a Wise Owl warning kids against danger. At first, it just seems …
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The Midwich Cuckoos – The DVDfever Review – Sky Showcase – Keeley Hawes
The Midwich Cuckoos is an adaptation of the John Wyndham novel, and a situation where I never saw any other version which has gone before (and I haven’t read a novel since I left school). …
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Big Boys – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Jon Pointing, Dylan Llewellyn
Big Boys has a rather wordy opening scene (in fact, most of the episode), telling us how in September 2011, Jack’s (Dylan Llewellyn) Dad had died at the age of 56, and “he was the …
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A Random Act of Kindness – Inside No.9 Series 7 Episode 5 – The DVDfever Review
A Random Act of Kindness is the fifth episode of Inside No.9 Series 7. This episode starts with narration from Rudolph (Reece Shearsmith) giving us some seemingly innocuous information about Newton’s laws of motion, relating …
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Kid/Nap – Inside No.9 Series 7 Episode 4 – The DVDfever Review
Kid/Nap is the fourth episode of Inside No.9 Series 7. It opens with Lara (Daisy Haggard) and Shane (Daniel Mays) living separate lives, with hers appearing considerably better off than his, but the opening scene …
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Spreadsheet – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Katherine Parkinson
Spreadsheet centres around Lauren (Katherine Parkinson – Hang Ups) who begins the first episode with what her male colleague, Alex (Rowan Witt), later refers to as ‘alfresco dining’. Our lead is constantly on dates… Well, …
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