Time Series 2 brings the prison drama back to our screens after a blistering first three-parter with Sean Bean and Stephen Graham. Before we know what’s happened, one minute, we see single mother Orla (Jodie …
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Anthony – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Jimmy McGovern
Anthony is a Jimmy McGovern drama centred around Anthony Walker (portrayed by Toheeb Jimoh), a young man of just 18 who was murdered in an unprovoked, and racially-motivated attack on 30th July, 2005 in Huyton, …
Continue readingCare – The DVDfever Review – Sheridan Smith, Alison Steadman
Care is a new Jimmy McGovern drama which, for me, has come at a depressingly poignant time. We know that strokes can hit someone – mostly in their later years, but sometimes also in a …
Continue readingBroken Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – Jimmy McGovern BBC Drama
Broken is a new Jimmy McGovern six-part drama and one that’s difficult to assess from just a single episode. Sean Bean is Catholic priest Father Michael Kerrigan, a man with a large parrish who look …
Continue readingReg (Tim Roth BBC drama) – The DVDfever Review
Reg Keys is a name I hadn’t heard before, but I was fully aware that we were taken to war in Iraq on a lie. Portrayed by Tim Roth, his son, Tom (Zac Fox), was …
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