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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 …
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Silo – The DVDfever Review – Apple TV+ – Rebecca Ferguson
Silo is an Apple TV+ adaption of a novel set in a post-apocalyptic world where the last 10,000 remaining people live. No-one knows why they’re down there, or who created the Silo, because their records …
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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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Strangers Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – John Simm
Strangers puts Professor Jonah Mulray in the tragic situation of his wife having died, but under what circumstances and what has she been up to? That’s what he’s about to find out and which has …
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Fortitude Episode 10 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 10 begins with Henry enjoying the only thing you can enjoy about this dire series – the snowy hilltops on a clear day, as he listens to his old-fangled Sony Walkman. Lorcan Cranitch …
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Fortitude Episode 9 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 9 begins by showing us Ronnie’s brutal murder but not showing who did the deed. Was it Frank? Then we cut to Liam, having spent most of the series in that bloody hyperbaric …
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Fortitude Episode 5 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 5 didn’t really help the cause for this overhyped series as it was merely treading water throughout, at a time when the series, as a whole, has been doing little else. It starts …
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Fortitude Episode 4 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 4 begins by still treading water which it’s done for the majority of its existence so far, with DCI Morton (Stanley Tucci) going for a nosey around Charlie’s abode, not realising there’s a …
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Fortitude Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 3 begins with DCI Morton (Stanley Tucci) being introduced to Markus Huseklepp (Darren Boyd sporting a dodgy Norwegian accent) and his girlfriend Shirley Allerdyce (Pride‘s Jessica Gunning), with the former declaring, “you cannot …
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Fortitude Episodes 1 and 2 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude‘s overhyped first two episodes have left me feeling – Nordic noir? More like Nordic Meh! This one-off series (which, no doubt if ratings do well will get commissioned for another), is set in a …
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