Wicked Little Letters is exactly what most of the townsfolk of Littlehampton are receiving, in 1920, full of profanity I can’t repeat here, and it all appears to be coming from the pen of uncouth …
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Boat Story – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Paterson Joseph, Daisy Haggard
Boat Story is story about a boat… Ooh, you weren’t expect that, were you? This new drama has a very weird prologue with a voiceover trying to be funny, announcing it as starting “under a …
Continue readingBlack Ops – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Gbemisola Ikumelo, Hammed Animashaun
Black Ops centres around two PCSOs, aka Police Community Support Officers, who can’t arrest a scrote who’s just attacked a security guard, thus pointing themselves out to be a complete waste of space. Since it …
Continue readingThe Light in the Hall – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Joanna Scanlan
The Light in the Hall centres around Sharon (Joanna Scanlan – The Larkins, The Accident), whose daughter, Ela, was murdered almost 20 years ago at the age of 15, and the murderer, Joe (Iwan Rheon), …
Continue readingThe Larkins – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Bradley Walsh
The Larkins is a reboot of The Darling Buds of May, even though no-one was crying out for one. It comes just over 30 years since they were last on our screens in the guise …
Continue readingMcDonald & Dodds – The DVDfever Review – Jason Watkins
McDonald & Dodds is the latest cop series for ITV with another mismatched pairing, this time with London hotshot DCI Lauren McDonald (Tala Gouveia) arriving to put a rocket over the comparatively sleepy policing procedures …
Continue readingDracula 2020 – The DVDfever Review – Claes Bang
Dracula 2020… okay, so it’s just Dracula, but then if you have several reviews called ‘Dracula’, it really doesn’t help in terms of Google rankings, so here we are. Anyhoo, this new series stars Claes …
Continue readingThe Accident – The DVDfever Review – Sarah Lancashire
The Accident begins with an unexpected – but amusing – scene as Polly Bevan (Sarah Lancashire – Kiri) finds 15-year-old daughter Leona (Jade Croot) in bed with a lad who’s far too old for her, …
Continue readingHow to Talk to Girls at Parties on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
How to Talk to Girls at Parties has shown me one first: Hawaiian-born and Australia-raised Nicole Kidman with a Cockney accent… and shouting “We Are England!” Hmm… It’s 1977 – the year of the Queen’s …
Continue readingThe Woman In White Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama
The Woman In White is a ghost of some sort, driving people mad, as she scares others, going about her daily business.. Walter Hartright (Ben Hardy) is an artist, or ‘drawing master’ as it says …
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