A Cruel Love is set in 1955, and it’s common knowledge that Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hung in the UK. This four-part drama opens with the convicted eating her breakfast on …
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Coma – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Jason Watkins
Coma starts with Simon Henderson (Jason Watkins – Wicked Little Letters) seeing an old man being kicked to the ground by a bunch of yobs, and that’s actually quite timely, given how I saw the …
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Maryland – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Suranne Jones
Maryland sees estranged sisters Becca (Suranne Jones – Vigil) and Rosaline (Eve Best – House Of The Dragon) forced to meet up again together, because they’ve just had the worst possible news they can about …
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Better – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Leila Farzad
Better is a new BBC1 drama with a ridiculously non-descript title. Tell someone about it, and they’ll ask the title, you say “Better”, they’ll reply, “Pardon?” and then you have to describe it. God knows …
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Anne – The DVDfever Review – Maxine Peake – ITV Hillsborough drama
Anne centres around Anne Williams, played here by Maxine Peake, whose son, Kevin, died in the harrowing disaster at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, on April 15th 1989, the death toll for which now stands at 97, …
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The Long Call – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Ben Aldridge
The Long Call is a new four-part cop drama, over four nights, where the writer tries to differentiate slightly from the average cop drama by making the male lead gay, unless that has happened before …
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Innocent Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – Katherine Kelly – ITV drama
Innocent Series 2 follows three years on from the first series, but the case is entirely new, so you don’t need to have seen the first one to know what’s going on, and the only …
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Domina – The DVDfever Review – Nadia Parkes – ‘Game of Romes’
Domina tells the story of Livia Drusilla (starting as Nadia Parkes, before moving on to Kasia Smutniak), who in an opening voiceover tells us she’s killed many people, and that the first rule of power …
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The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance – The DVDfever Review – Netflix
The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance is a prequel to the 1982 movie, which I saw for the first time last year with the Blu-ray Special Edition and loved it. With this series, Thra is …
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The Interrogation of Tony Martin – The DVDfever Review – Steve Pemberton
The Interrogation of Tony Martin centres around the farmer who shot burglar Fred Barras in the back as he ran away from the scene. To this day, Mr Martin has been unrepentant, and insists he …
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