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The Luminaries is set in the time of the 1860s gold rush, on the ‘wild West’ coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Eve Hewson plays Anna Wetherell, a typical ‘naive character in a drama’ who’s …
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Category: TV Series
Staged – The DVDfever Review – David Tennant, Michael Sheen
Staged is a new series produced during the lockdown period, and which came about because both David Tennant and Michael Sheen – who both starred in 2019’s Good Omens – were meant to be appearing …
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I May Destroy You – The DVDfever Review – Michaela Coel
I May Destroy You centres around writer Arabella (Michaela Coel – Black Earth Rising), living in a grotty flat with lots of notes on the wall before leaving her boyfriend to go and live in …
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The First Team – The DVDfever Review – Will Arnett
The First Team centres around American young man Mattie Sullivan (Jake Short), who’s signed to a British club by Mark Crane (Will Arnett, The LEGO Batman Movie) on the understanding he’s a major US player …
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Snowpiercer 2020 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Bong Joon Ho
Snowpiercer 2020 (is what I’ve had to term the TV version of the 2013 movie), and it’s a series based on said movie by Bong Joon Ho (also out on the same day as this …
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White Lines – The DVDfever Review – Daniel Mays – Netflix
White Lines… don’t do it… except when it’s a Netflix series. The story begins when a young man’s body has been found out in Almería, Spain, but this can’t be considered an accident of any …
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I Know This Much Is True – The DVDfever Review – Mark Ruffalo
I Know This Much Is True sees Mark Ruffalo (Avengers: Endgame) portraying twin brothers Thomas and Dominick, the former of whom is in a mental institution after committing a horrendous act in a public library, …
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The Eddy – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Damien Chazelle
The Eddy is a French musical drama, and when I first heard of this, I had shockwaves of horror go through me as if I was about to witness the return of Fame. However, no …
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Isolation Stories – The DVDfever Review – Eddie Marsan
Isolation Stories looks like the kind of drama we could be getting used to for the forseeable future, and it’s also been touted that the BBC’s Talking Heads series, originally devised by Alan Bennett, could …
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Into The Night – The DVDfever Review – Netflix
Into The Night gives us a premise similar to ITV’s 1999 drama, The Last Train, in that the end of the world is seemingly on the way, and it appears that the only potential survivors …
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