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Plodding On is the sixth and final episode of Inside No.9 Series 9, and the last EVER episode! Before this aired, I was hoping we’d finally get the Robin Askwith bus conductor episode which they …
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Tag: Monica Dolan
The Change – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Bridget Christie
The Change sees central character Linda (Bridget Christie) going through the menopause. She’s feeling the trappings of age as she turns 50, such as how everything she does with her kids seems to annoy them, …
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Empire of Light – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Olivia Colman
Empire of Light takes us back to 1980, and to the Empire Cinema in Margate (normally the Dreamland Margate cinema), which we first see in 1980, the year of which I could tell because they’re …
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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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The Dig – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes
The Dig begins in 1938, in Suffolk, where Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan, Collateral) had learned there were approximately 18 ancient burial mounds on the Sutton Hoo estate, near to her home, so she summons M …
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The Shrine – Talking Heads Series 1 Episode 12 – The DVDfever Review – Monica Dolan
The Shrine is the twelfth, and final, of 12 episodes using the original Alan Bennett scripts but with new actors, except that this and An Ordinary Woman were brand new scripts. It centres around Lorna …
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Official Secrets – Trailer 1 – Keira Knightley
Official Secrets shows Keira Knightley works for the government but she may or may not have leaked an email, and so she may or may not be in big trub, and if she is, then …
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Smithereens – Black Mirror Series 5 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Smithereens – as in the phrase “smashed to smithereens” – is the second episode in Black Mirror Season 5, but early on, when we meet Chris (Andrew Scott), we see he’s a cabbie who’s overly …
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Once Removed – Inside No.9 Series 4 Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
Once Removed is the third episode of Inside No.9 Series 4, and kicks off with an opening-and-a-half which leads to a situation which has to be seen to be believed, before the action heads back …
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W1A Series 3 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
W1A enters its third series, so is doing brilliantly well, given that it was spawned from the two-series Twenty Twelve, which did for the London Olympics what The Thick Of It did for politics. That …
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