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The Sixth Commandment opens with the text… “This is a true story. What follows is based on extensive research, interviews and published accounts, with some scenes created for dramatic purposes” I’d never heard of this …
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Tag: Sarah Phelps
The Pale Horse – The DVDfever Review – Agatha Christie drama
The Pale Horse begins, in the village of Much Deeping, in 1960s Surrey, with antique dealer Mark Easterbrook (Rufus Sewell)’s dying in mysterious circumstances One year later, in London, and a dying woman has written …
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Dublin Murders – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama
Dublin Murders is a new drama, set in 2006, based on the books by Tana French, and adapted by Sarah Phelps, who also adapted the recent Agatha Christie dramas The ABC Murders, The Witness For …
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The ABC Murders: The Complete Series (2018) – The DVDfever Review – Agatha Christie BBC drama
The ABC Murders is the latest Agatha Christie tale to be told on BBC1, and after Ordeal By Innocence was delayed from last Christmas, and bumped to April this year, when it was told in …
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Ordeal By Innocence: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Agatha Christie BBC drama
Ordeal By Innocence, by Agatha Christie, begins with rich matriarch Rachel Argyll (Anna Chancellor) having her mortal coil shuffled off by someone, and since it’s Agatha Christie, so the victim must be discovered by the …
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The Witness For The Prosecution (2016) – The DVDfever Review – BBC Drama
The Witness For The Prosecution is one of many TV and film adaptions based on the original Agatha Christie short story, based in London, August 1923. Emily French (Kim Cattrall) is a wealthy woman with …
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The Casual Vacancy Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
The Casual Vacancy Episode 3 finally puts itself out of its misery, and a good job too as, quite frankly, over the course of these three weeks I could’ve pulled a better story out of …
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The Casual Vacancy Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
The Casual Vacancy Episode 2 began with Barry’s funeral, and threats from beyond the grave that the dead man was going to rock the foundations of Pagford in some way. Half-brother Simon was also making …
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The Casual Vacancy – The DVDfever Review – JK Rowling
The Casual Vacancy 4 is an adaptation of a J.K. Rowling novel and is set in the fictional town of Pagford, in the suburban West Country. In a cast filled with famous faces, Parish council …
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