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The Outrun is effectively a dramatised biography for novelist and co-screenwriter Amy Liptrot, and her yoyo-ing in and out of alcoholism in real life, such as showing Rona (Saoirse Ronan – See How They Run) …
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The Lazarus Project – The DVDfever Review – Sky Max – Paapa Essiedu
The Lazarus Project is a new 8-part series on Sky, and as it opens, it’s 7am on July 1st 2022, and George (Paapa Essiedu – Anne Boleyn 2021) has a business pitch at the bank …
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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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Unsaid Stories – The DVDfever Review – Nicholas Pinnock, Amanda Abbington
Unsaid Stories is a new four-part series of 15-minute short dramas, similar to May’s Isolation Stories. Whereas they centred around… well, everyone having to isolate, this series is based around the Black Lives Matter movement. …
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I May Destroy You – The DVDfever Review – Michaela Coel
I May Destroy You centres around writer Arabella (Michaela Coel – Black Earth Rising), living in a grotty flat with lots of notes on the wall before leaving her boyfriend to go and live in …
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Press Episodes 1 and 2 – The DVDfever Review – Charlotte Riley, Ben Chaplin
Press centres aroud two newspapers in this fictionalised Fleet Street. Workaholic Holly Evans (Charlotte Riley) works for the Herald, while Duncan Allen (Ben Chaplin) edits The Post, a more tabloid paper, and given their logo, …
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Kiri – The DVDfever Review – Sarah Lancashire
Kiri is a new four-part drama starring Sarah Lancashire as Miriam, a social worker who owns a dog with low-level depression, whom she dotes upon, and her visits to her mother, Celia (Sue Johnston), in …
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The Miniaturist: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Anya Taylor-Joy
The Miniaturist is set in Amsterdam, 1686, where Petronella, aka Nella (Split‘s Anya Taylor-Joy) is marrying sugar trader Johannes Brandt (Alex Hassell), and feels very much a fish out of water, even though she’s quite …
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