Rivals is set in a world where everyone’s all posh and hoity-toity, opening with a couple – the male half being Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell – Violent Night) – having a bit of “how’s your …
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Maternal – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Parminder Nagra
Maternal is a new ITV drama which sees three women returning to various hospital positions at the same time, following each having given birth, and all with differing home lives. The first we see is …
Continue readingLiving – The DVDfever Cinema Review – Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood
Living centres around a man known only by his surname for the majority of the film, Williams, played by Bill Nighy (The World’s End), and set in 1953, where every businessman wears bowler hats, all …
Continue readingTrying – The DVDfever Review – Rafe Spall Apple TV+
Trying is like a pre-cursor to Sky One’s Breeders, in that while Nikki (Esther Smith) and Jason (Rafe Spall) are looking to conceive, Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard were sick of their children and family …
Continue readingKing Charles III – The DVDfever Review – A perfect epitaph to Tim Pigott-Smith
King Charles III – the title made me think “What? Another labourious period drama? …Oh, hang on, we’ve never had a third King Charles”. And then the penny dropped. Mike Bartlett has adapted his own …
Continue readingMotherland – The DVDfever Review – BBC Sitcom pilot
Motherland is a sitcom pilot centred around middle-class motherhood. Personally, I’ve never sired a child and don’t intend to, so I won’t experience fatherhood, let alone motherhood, and I consider myself working class and not …
Continue readingThe Scandalous Lady W – The DVDfever Review
The Scandalous Lady W apparently told the true story of Lady Seymour Worsley (Game Of Thrones and Hunger Games star Natalie Dormer), set in England, 1782, when a man’s wife was considred his property. Unfortunately, …
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