Apple Cider Vinegar, Funboys, and Virdee

Apple Cider Vinegar, Funboys, and Virdee

Author: Empire Magazine February 10, 2025 Duration: 1:13:20

Dodgy influencers are the order of the day on this week’s show as we take a look at Netflix’s wellness drama Apple Cider Vinegar (39:12). Plus, we join three hapless boys (and one plastic swan) in BBC comedy Funboys (51:04), and head up to the mean streets of Bradford for the Beeb’s adaptation of the DCI Virdee novels (59:48). Plus, the team chew over television’s most fiendish cliffhangers and James attempts to explain the significance of the impending Buffy reboot to Kay.

(Episode 323)

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