Tag Archives: Suzanne Packer

Keeping Faith: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Eve Myles, Mark Lewis Jones, Bradley Freegard, Aneirin Hughes, Hannah Daniel, Lacey Jones, Demi Letherby, Eiry Thomas, Alex Harries, Catherine Ayers, Suzanne Packer, Rhian Morgan¸ Rhashan Stone, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Anastasia Hille, Brochan Evans, Martha Bright, Boryana Manoilova, Richard Lynch, Owen Arwyn.

Keeping Faith is a hard ask of modern audiences, the temptation to wander away from the serial that once had you gripped is an understandable response to the way we live today, the instant and continuous gratification, the need for visual stimulation is so overwhelming that we do not understand why such a television programme cannot keep up with the initial demand, why it cannot behave like a soap opera.

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(447 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

The ABC Murders. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: John Malkovich, Andrew Buchan, Rupert Grint, Eamon Farren, Fraya Mavor, Michael Shaeffer, Shirley Henderson, Kevin McNally, Bronwyn James, Christopher Villiers, Anya Chalotra, Tara Fitzgerald, Suzanne Packer, Eve Austin, Jack Farthing, Tamzin Griffin, Lizzy McInnerny, Ian Pirie, Cyril Nri, Gregor Fisher, Neil Hurst, Henry Goodman.

No one actor has the monopoly on a character, not one viewer has the definitive right to install as an absolute god their chosen performer in the role in which others can bring a different dimension to the flaws and assets possessed of those brought to life before an audience; it is perhaps not even the right of the imaginative soul who brought them into existence to dictate who should don the greasepaint of any one individual who is there to glean insight into the human condition.

The ABC Murders. Television Review. full post

(530 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Tsuranga Conundrum. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, Mandip Cole, Brett Goldstein, Lois Chimimba, Suzanne Packer, Ben Bailey-Smith, David Shields, Jack Shalloo.

For the vast majority of British television watchers, there is nothing like a riddle wrapped inside a mystery and surrounded by the hard-boiled charm of the perpetual challenge, it is arguably why so many fans and audiences around the world have embraced the enigma of Doctor Who in all its glory.

Doctor Who: The Tsuranga Conundrum. Television Review. full post

(570 words, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)

Keeping Faith. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Eve Myles, Mark Lewis Jones, Hannah David, Matthew Gravelle, Bradley Freegard, Mali Harries, Aneirin Hughes, Rhian Morgan, Eiry Thomas, Catherine Ayers, Alex Harries, Suzanne Packer, Betsan Llwyd, Kizzy Crawford, Colin Murtagh, Mark Preston, Menna Trussler, Pinar Ögün.

To trust someone is to understand their faults and understand that they may let you down, nobody is perfect after all and we all have the chance to be put in the way of temptation, be it in the way of sex, money or greed, we all the opportunity to be exploited for our mistakes and lack of at the time judgement, but it is to love someone when you know you might get hurt, when the foundations of their actions will cause you to see them in a different light.

Keeping Faith. Television Review. full post

(496 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Under Milk Wood, 2014 Cast Recording. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Michael Sheen, Tom Jones, Matthew Rhys, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Tom Rhys Harries, Karl Johnson, Iwan Rheon, Aneurin Barnard, Ioan Gruffudd, Kimberley Nixon, Steffan Rhodri, Mark Lewis Jones, Richard Harrington, Sophie Evans, Melanie Walters, Griff Rhys Jones, John Rhys Davies, Andrew Howard, Rakie Ayola, Jonathan Pryce, Sian Phillips, Bryn Terfel, Katherine Jenkins, Charlotte Church, Tom Ellis, Aneirin Hughes, Robert Pugh, Suzanne Packer, Eve Myles, Alexandra Roach, Craig Roberts, Sharon Morgan, Owen Teale, Di Botcher, Sian Thomas, Jon Tregenna.

Under Milk Wood, 2014 Cast Recording. Television Review. full post

(471 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)