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 …
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Category: TV Series
The 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 …
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Ridley 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 …
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Maid – 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 …
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Hollington 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 …
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Midnight 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. …
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Foundation – 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 …
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Help – 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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Wolfe – The DVDfever Review – Sky Showcase – Babou Ceesay
Wolfe is a new drama, with a hint of dark humour, based around crime scene investigator and professor (where does he get the time for two demanding jobs?) Wolfe (Babou Ceesay – Free Fire), and …
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The Cleaner – The DVDfever Review – Greg Davies, Helena Bonham Carter
The Cleaner stars Greg Davies, whose character is called Wicky but that’s clearly irrelevant, since Greg Davies only does Greg Davies, with his typical ‘man angry with the world’ schtick as soon as it begins, …
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