No Return does feel a bit like Groundhog Day. We’re only just into February, and this year, it’s the third multi-part drama we’ve had on TV in 2022 starring Sheridan Smith in the lead role, …
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You Don’t Know Me – The DVDfever Review – Samuel Adewunmi – BBC drama
You Don’t Know Me is a new four-part series which begins with Hero (Samuel Adewunmi – Angela Black) finding he’s not living up to his name, because he’s up before the beak following apparently shooting …
Continue readingResponsible Child – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama
Responsible Child is based on a true story about a 12-year-old boy who’s arrested on a charge of murder. At the start of the drama, young Rafael – best known as Ray (Billy Barratt) – …
Continue readingGiri/Haji – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama
Giri/Haji translates as Duty/Shame, and it’s one of those titles for a piece of entertainment which is anoying from a SEO point of view, because search engine optimisation really hates symbols in a keyword. Anyhoo, …
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 readingThe Child In Time – The DVDfever Review – Benedict Cumberbatch BBC drama
The Child in Time is a one-off drama based on Ian McEwan‘s novel, presenting a Madeleine McCann-type situation beginning with Stephen Lewis (Benedict Cumberbatch), in a supermarket, turning his attention from four-year-old daughter Kate away …
Continue readingI Am Not A Serial Killer on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
I Am Not A Serial Killer, so claims teenager John Wayne Cleaver (Max Records), but if that’s the case, who’s doing away with half the town, with the film first showing us a dead body …
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