Tag Archives: Series Three

Departure: Series Three. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Archie Panjabi, Kris Holden-Reid, Mark Rendall, Karen LeBlanc, Dion Johnstone, Patrick Sabongul, Savoa Spracklin, Brit MacRae, Cihig Ma, Thomas Craig, Tyler Elliot Burke, Eric McCormack, Pamela Estrada, Mikaela Dyke, Paula Boudreau, Kominna Parkinson-Jones, Jennnnifer Podemski, Jaedenn Noel, Shailyn Pierre-Dixon, Wesley French, Jake Weber, Lauren Lee Smith, Romaine Waite, Susann Coyne, Lee Clarke, Cindy Sampson, Sarah Swire, Steve O’Connell.

The capacity for human tragedy knows no boundaries when it comes to incompetence and greed from reckless individuals and corporations.

Departure: Series Three. Television Drama Review. full post

(435 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Staged. Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Georgia Tennant, Anna Lundberg, Lucy Eaton, Simon Evans, Nina Sosanya, Ben Schwartz, Adrian Lester, Jim Broadbent, Peter de Jersey, Olivia Coleman.

When you have seen the joke before, the punchline becomes inevitable…

And yet it must be said, if the joke is crafted well, you cannot but help smile and laugh, even though you know the setup, even though you know what’s coming, it still raises the corners of the mouth and gives way to that the emotion of being amused, of enjoying the company which told you the series of events which culminate in that often repeated punchline.

Staged. Series Three. Television Review. full post

(548 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

His Dark Materials. Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy, Amir Wilson, Will Keen, Lewin Lloyd, Jade Anouka, Simone Kirby, Chipo Chung, Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje, Jonathan Aris, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Jamie Ward, Sian Clifford, Alex Hassell, Lia Williams, Simon Harrison, Amber Fitzgerald-Woolfe, Nina Sosanya, Andrew Scott, Lin Manuel Miranda, Victoria Hamilton, Kit Connor, Joe Tandberg, Sope Dirisu, Lindsay Duncan, Kate Ashfield, Emma Tate, Patricia Allison, Tuppence Middleton, Sorcha Groundsell, Wade Briggs, Peter Wright.

His Dark Materials. Series Three. Television Review. full post

(541 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

The Orville: New Horizons. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Seth MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson, Scott Grimes, Peter Macon, J. Lee, Mark Jackson, Norm MacDonald, Jessica Szohr, Chad L. Coleman, Halston Sage, Victor Garber, Ted Danson, BJ Tanner, Kai Wener, Ty Finn, Mike Henry, Anne Winters, Graham Hamilton, Kelly Hu, Dolly Parton, Michaela McManus, Imani Pullum, Giorgia Whigham.

The Orville: New Horizons. Television Series Review. full post

(604 words, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)

Code 404: Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Stephen Graham, Daniel Mays, Rosie Cavaliero, Anna Maxwell Martin, Amanda Payton, Michelle Greenidge, Richard Gadd, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Michael Armstrong, Vinette Robinson, Louise Stewart, Bleu Landau, James Grogan, John Cummins, Alan Mooney, Sasha Behar, Hannah Bourne, Idris Balogun.

One way to ensure that the dystopian future of policing never happens is to ensure we find ways to ridicule it, that we mock it with intelligence, that we pour scorn on every circuit, and ask the those with the means to sow the seeds of derision, the artists with keen eye and sharp observation skills, to portray the need for AI in certain walks of responsible life to be curtailed.

Code 404: Series Three. Television Review. full post

(474 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

A Discovery Of Witches. Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode, Alex Kingston, Gregg Chilingirian, Trevor Eve, Owen Teale, Malin Buska, Edward Blumel, Aiysha Hart, Valarie Pettiford, Lindsay Duncan, Aisling Loftus, Tanya Moodie, Adelle Leonce, Sorcha Cusack, Steven Cree, Daniel Ezra, Jacob Ifan, Greg McHugh.

A trilogy is only as good as its final part. If you can stomach that declaration then understanding is part of your deal, for a trilogy means nothing if the ending is unbelievable, if it goes against everything that has been set up in good faith before, then the whole structure falls apart, it becomes worthless, the one willing to sit through an entire season, take pleasure in the excitement of the ending, might arguably feel cheated, will feel the waves of cynical impression forced upon their time.

A Discovery Of Witches. Series Three. Television Review. full post

(485 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Ghosts (Series Three). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Charlotte Ritchie, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Lolly Adefope, Matthew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurance Rickard, Ben Willbond, Katy Wix, Geoff McGivern, Jessica Knappett.

Uproariously silly, who knew that being a ghost could do so much for your sense of humour, who could have realised that being able to see the dead would give your spirits a rise. For three series in to become one of the great British comedies of the last decade, up there with the intricate mayhem provided by The Goes Wrong Show, Not Going Out and Vicious, Ghosts is the joy provided by a set of writers who understand that with a great gag must come pathos, that truth is born out of farce, and these sterling qualities have the obligation to be captured by actors to whom timing and sympathy to the character is an absolute commitment.

Ghosts (Series Three). Television Review. full post

(460 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Jago & Litefoot: Swan Song. Series Three, Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Ration 9/10

Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, Louise Jameson, Conrad Asquith, Lisa Bowerman, Abigail Hollick, Hywel Morgan, Andrew Westfield, Philip Bretherton.

The power of a performance, the emotional resonance that bleeds across the stage from the actor to the audience and out in the open world as word of mouth and newspaper columns declare the genius of the words spoken, not only get stuck in the minds of those that see it, they also bleed through the walls of the theatre as if being used as a storage device; feeding and growing until it can take no more. Such is the theory that a building can hold the echoes of the past; it is the premise that sees Jago and Litefoot’s latest adventure in series three take on the voices and images of a story that could be their Swan Song.

Jago & Litefoot: Swan Song. Series Three, Audio Drama Review. Big Finish. full post

(527 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Jago & Litefoot: The Man At The End Of The Garden. Series Three. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, Louise Jameson, Conrad Asquith, Lisa Bowerman, Joanna Bacon, Eden Monteath, Joanna Monro, Duncan Wisbey.

There are some tales, supposedly written for the benefit of children that are really for the attention of adult world. Red Riding Hood, a tale of heroism perhaps in the hands of a small child or really the precautionary story and veiled warning to a woman not to let any old wolf take her virtue. Whatever the fairy-tale, whatever its meaning, the chance for children to be told instructive tales by adults somehow slows down the learning of the moral in the story and makes adults forget the unseen world in which children’s fears are played out.

Jago & Litefoot: The Man At The End Of The Garden. Series Three. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish. full post

(421 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Jago & Litefoot, Dead Men’s Tales. Series Three. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, Louise Jamieson, Conrad Asquith, Lisa Bowerman, Warren Brown, Andrew Westfield, Alex Mallinson.

Series Three of Jago and Litefoot, the popular spin-off from Doctor Who and made by Big Finish, greets with open arms an old friend to the Victorian world of amateur detective detection as Leela, the fourth Doctor’s incarnation’s noble savage, appears to warn her old friends that the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

Jago & Litefoot, Dead Men’s Tales. Series Three. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish. full post

(485 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)