‘Wilfred’: Season 1 DVD review
There are many times when you feel that Wilfred would have been much better as a film, or as a number of sketches.
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There are many times when you feel that Wilfred would have been much better as a film, or as a number of sketches.
‘It’s quite ridiculous,’ the Doctor says at one point during this supercharged, Jurassic Park-meets-Alien-meets-Carry On Cleo romp. ‘Also: brilliant.’ He’s right on both counts. Dinosaurs on a Spaceship is possibly the most preposterous episode of Doctor Who since the days when Tom Baker proposed a talking cabbage as his new companion; yet it’s easily the … >
Although it can’t quite decide whether it’s a sanitised version of The Fades or simply Twilight-meets-Byker Grove, Wolfblood is a lot of fun.
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Such a resolutely downbeat conclusion is admirable, but the poor dialogue renders it wholly unsatisfying.
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The concluding conversation between Sinbad and Cook back on the Providence which is undoubtedly the best two minutes of this series so far.
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