Adolescence opens with the explosive scene of an armed police unit bashing their way into the home of 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), and oh, what a mess as they stop about the inside of …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of A CRUEL LOVE: THE RUTH ELLIS STORY!
A Cruel Love is set in 1955, and it’s common knowledge that Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hung in the UK. This four-part drama opens with the convicted eating her breakfast on …
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Trigger Point Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Vicky McClure
Trigger Point Series 2 sees Lana (Vicky McClure – Without Sin) returning to the fore after having spent six months training bomb disposal teams in Estonia. Her first task is to give a routine talk …
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The Reckoning – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Steve Coogan
The Reckoning is the four-part drama which starts Steve Coogan (This Time With Alan Partridge) as the late, disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile, given everything we now know he got up to during his life and …
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The Thief His Wife and the Canoe – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Eddie Marsan
The Thief His Wife and the Canoe does rather seem an odd situation to make a TV series out of, but then I remember it happening at the time, and rather than feel like a …
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Trigger Point – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Vicky McClure
Trigger Point sees Vicky McClure in a new cop drama – following six seasons of Line of Duty, along with Adrian Lester as Terry Nutkins…, sorry, Joel Nutkins. I’m a child of the ’80s, I …
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The Girl Before – The DVDfever Review – Gugu Mbatha-Raw – BBC drama
The Girl Before begins with Emma (Jessica Plummer) moving into a minimalist house with Simon (Ben Hardy), but while the building would be Kevin McCloud from Grand Designs‘ wet dream, there’s a number of catches …
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Anne Boleyn – The DVDfever Review – Jodie Turner-Smith – Channel 5 drama
Anne Boleyn is a new three-part Channel 5 drama starring Jodie Turner-Smith (Without Remorse) as Henry VIII’s missus. Eagle-eyed viewers will spot that Jodie is black while Anne was white. But then some people believe …
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Honour – The DVDfever Review – Keeley Hawes – ITV drama
Honour is a two-part ITV drama which is so-called because it deals with the potential honour killing of 20-year-old Banaz Mahmod, the case led by DCI Caroline Goode (Keeley Hawes – Bodyguard). At the start, …
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White House Farm – The DVDfever Review – Stephen Graham
White House Farm is a new six-part ITV drama which starts the new year by bringing us the doom and gloom of a mass murder, this time based on the true story of what happened …
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