Years And Years is a new drama from Russell T Davies, whose work has had a chequered past with me, in that I really enjoyed some, but didn’t like others. This starts off as a …
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Chernobyl: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Drama of the Year! – Out now on Blu-ray!
Chernobyl is a new Sky Atlantic drama which focuses on the tragedy when the Chernobyl nuclear reactor went into meltdown following the explosion of the core inside, and turned the working town of Pripyat into …
Continue readingClimate Change: The Facts – The DVDfever Review – David Attenborough
Climate Change: The Facts contains at least two facts: (a) the 2019 date of production at the end, and (b) it’s presented by David Attenborough. David Attenborough makes a lot of capital out of how …
Continue readingGhosts: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Horrible Histories cast
Ghosts basically shows us that Horrible Histories has finally made it to prime-time television, albeit with a bit more adult content at times, even if the language rarely steps above a U-certificate. The last known …
Continue readingNaked Beach Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 series
Naked Beach is full of people stripping off because they don’t like their own bodies, and so they’re forcing themselves on us, instead. Now, if this had been shown after the watershed, at 9pm, I …
Continue readingDon’t Forget The Driver: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Toby Jones
Don’t Forget The Driver has blazed the trail for just one thing – you don’t often get a 30-minute comedy in a cinemascope 2.35:1-style ratio. And that’s all that surprised me in this incredibly limp …
Continue readingThe Victim: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Kelly Macdonald
The Victim follows ITV’s recent Cheat as being a four-part drama spread out over four consecutive nights, which is much better than putting it out over the same number of weeks, and expecting viewers to …
Continue readingThe Widow Episodes 1 and 2 – The DVDfever Review – Kate Beckinsale
The Widow is very timely as the first episode is set just after the clocks have gone forward. Okay, so on the day the episode is broadcast – April 8th, it’s over a week after …
Continue readingLine Of Duty Series 5: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review
Line Of Duty Series 5 brings AC12 back to our screens for the first time since 2017, and for the first time in my years of TV reviews, the first episode of Line Of Duty …
Continue readingHanna Season 1 – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime
Hanna reboots the 2011 Saoirse Ronan thriller – which propelled her to the fore as the 16-year-old teenage assassin, and was a pretty decent movie – in an 8-part Amazon Prime TV series, with Esme …
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