The Serial Killer’s Wife is a Paramount+ four-part drama I overlooked on its release in December 2023, but now, it’s come to Channel 5 to fill an Intruder-sized gap in their schedule. When a woman …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE WIVES on Channel 5!
The Wives opens with Beth Morgan (Jo Joyner – For Her Sins) looking for Annabelle, wife of Charlie, who’s gone missing and her mobile is left at the top of the cliff… One year later, …
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Crime – The DVDfever Review – ITV / Britbox – Dougray Scott
Crime is the latest ITV drama – this one premiering on Britbox, however – with a rather bland and generic title. Cop Eddie ‘Ginger’ Rogers (Gordon Kennedy) – yep, they created a nickname for a …
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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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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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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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Wild 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 …
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Ordinary Lies Series 2 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Ordinary Lies Series 2 changes location to sports clothing company Coopers, and specifically, the warehouse and call centre behind it. I loved the first series (even the performance from the usually-irritating Jason Manford), and once …
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Brief Encounters Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Brief Encounters summarises the story of Jacqueline Gold, for ITV-friendly audiences, about how she started a business selling exotic lingerie and ‘marital aids’ at parties within the homes of her friends, under the Ann Summers …
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