The Day Of The Jackal (2024) is a slightly more modern take on the Frederick Forsyth novel, although while this TV series version often does have a stylish look to it as if it was …
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Blue Lights – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Sian Brooke
Blue Lights centres around newbie cop PC Grace Ellis (Sian Brooke – No Return, Stephen), who’s just retrained after a long career in social service. Quite why she would is anyone’s guess, given that working …
Continue readingCOBRA: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Robert Carlyle
COBRA begins with a plane in crisis, losing power and not sure if it’ll make it to the next airport – just one of many incidents happening around the world due to an unknown cause. …
Continue readingRellik Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Rellik is a new detective drama which comes from the same writers as The Missing and ITV’s new offering, Liar, which actually premieres at exactly the same time as this! The lead is DCI Gabriel …
Continue readingFortitude Season 2 Episode 5 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Season 2 Episode 5 is where I am this increasingly ridiculous series part ways. I have tried, but while the first series was occasionally “so bad it’s good”, this one has stumbled along like …
Continue readingFortitude Season 2 Episode 4 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Season 2 Episode 4 is the point where I’m still wondering why I’m bothering and I’m going to give this show one more episode after this before I consider calling it a day. Series …
Continue readingFortitude Season 2 Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Season 2 Episode 3 felt like rather a filler episode where not an awful lot happened, even if what did happen was very weird. After seeing PC Ingrid’s taking Rene Lennox (okay, he’s called …
Continue readingFortitude Season 2 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Season 2 Episode 2 begins with an unknown drifter talking incoherently while staring at something in the distance… a bear… carrying something… a reindeer calf, but…. he’s got no eyes! How does he smell? …
Continue readingFortitude Season 2 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Season 2 comes two years after the first one with which I had a love/hate relationship – hardly anyone could act, hence why I dubbed it ‘Eldorado In The Arctic‘ as well as ‘Nordic …
Continue readingFortitude Episode 12 – The DVDfever Review
Fortitude Episode 12 signals the end of ‘Eldorado In The Arctic‘ – bad acting, random accents and disjointed storylines. Yes, it’s the 1992 soap all over again! Vincent’s still trapped inside with Dr Allerdyce and …
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