Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too is the third, and final, episode in Black Mirror Series 5, and after two disappointing episodes so far, this one also has a well-worn premise of an idolised pop star …
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Smithereens – Black Mirror Series 5 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Smithereens – as in the phrase “smashed to smithereens” – is the second episode in Black Mirror Season 5, but early on, when we meet Chris (Andrew Scott), we see he’s a cabbie who’s overly …
Continue readingStriking Vipers – Black Mirror Series 5 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Striking Vipers is the first episode of Black Mirror Season 5, and this time, we’re only getting three episodes, but then we did get the immense Bandersnatch inbetween Christmas and New Year, which had over …
Continue readingWild Bill: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Rob Lowe
Wild Bill brings us something I’d never have imagined from when I was first regularly watching ITV as a kid in the ’80s – first of all, it starts movie legend Rob Lowe, and secondly …
Continue readingGood Omens Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – David Tennant, Michael Sheen
Good Omens poses the opener that you might’ve thought that the universe began 14 billion years ago, and the Earth, 4.6bn years ago, but this series confirms that it all began on Sunday 21st October …
Continue readingSummer Of Rockets Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Keeley Hawes
Summer Of Rockets is a new Stephen Poliakoff drama set around the beginning of the Cold War, circa 1957/58, and while I’ve not really been able to get into his earlier works, this one did …
Continue readingWhat We Do In The Shadows 2019 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Taika Waititi
What We Do in the Shadows follows a quartet of vampires who’ve lived together for centuries, on Staten Island, and is the second programme starting on the BBC tonight (following BBC1’s Gentleman Jack), which has …
Continue readingGentleman Jack Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Suranne Jones
Gentleman Jack begins in 1832, and sees Suranne Jones (Save Me, Scott and Bailey, Doctor Foster) take the lead of landowner Anne Lister, who’s trying to transform her family estate, so it’s a bit like …
Continue readingHatton Garden: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – ITV 2019 Drama
Hatton Garden sees the story of the titular bank robbery being told for the third time, following 2017’s The Hatton Garden Job, and 2018’s King Of Thieves, with a more famous cast (and not as …
Continue readingThe Virtues: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Stephen Graham
The Virtues is a new four-part series which reunites This Is England‘s Shane Meadows with actor Stephen Graham, here, as Joseph, a painter and decorator who has reached the end of his tether. Drink and …
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