Category Archives: TV

The Bombing Of Pan Am 103. Television Drama Series Review.

Cast: Connor Swindells, Patrick J. Adams, Eddie Marsan, Peter Mullan, Lauren Lyle, Phyllis Logan, Tony Curran, Merritt Wever, James Harkness, Amanda Drew, Molly Geddes, Nicholas Gleaves, Douglas Hodge, Alastair Mackenzie, Kevin McKidd, Dominik Tiefenthaler, Estrid Barton, Adrian Lukis, Joe Layton, Robert Jack, Andrew Rothney, Adam Rothenburg, Archie McCormick, Parker Sawyers, Etta Jackson, Majd Eid.

To live through history is to take stock of the emotions you feel as the moment reveals itself; to be able to reflect as television, the modern mediator of truth and fiction, uncovers those emotions once more as they harness the energy of the subject for either entertainment or for unearthing some even darker secret, is to understand the curse of our age, that everything presented on a disaster of unimaginable scale is up for debate.

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(559 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

The Last Of Us. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, Isabela Merced, Young Mazino, Kaitlyn Dever, Rutina Wesley, Danny Ramirez, Catherine O’Hara, Robert John Burke, Spencer Lord, Tati Gabrelle, Ariela Barer, Noah Lamanna, Jeffrey Wright, Alanna Ubach, Ben Ahlers, Hettienne Park, Tony Dalton, Joe Pantoliano.

The second season of The Last Of Us certainly can claim to move the action on, to expand the narrative of the downfall of humanity, but by doing so it finds itself lacking composure and the ferocity of the moment so elegantly pursued in its opening episodes.

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(465 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

I, Jack Wright. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Simm, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Daniel Rigby, Harry Lloyd, Ruby Ashbourne-Serkis, Trevor Eve, Liz Kingsman, Rakhee Thakrar, Zoë Tapper, James Fleet, Gemma Jones, Sabrina Bartlett, James Wilby, Percelle Ascott, Victoria Broom, Eden Hollingsworth, Tim Faraday, Niamh Cusack.

Murder mysteries are stock in trade for television, everyday there is the detective’s lot in finding a killer, and the only thing that changes is the reasoning of the one committing the heinous crime, or the personality of the one investigating them. The genre never grows tired, but it can become a little predictable, the staleness is inert and takes a genuine talent and insight to give it the value and respect that many plead for in the modern age.

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

Marie Antoinette. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Emilia Schüle, Louis Cunningham, Jack Archer, Jasmine Blackborow, Oscar Lesage, Roxane Duran, Caroline Piette, Yoli Fuller, Liah O’ Prey, Crystal Shepherd-Cross, Mathe Keller, Martijn Lakemeier, Freya Mavor, Jessica Clark, James Northcote, Guy Henry, Philippe Tloninski, Maximilien Seweryn, Selva Rasalingam, Callum McGowan.

The second series of the Anglo/French drama Marie Antoinette hits its stride as the narrative gets closer to the moment where the revolution was inevitable.

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(518 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Star Wars: Andor. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgård, Genevieve O’ Reilly, Denise Gough, Elizabeth Dulau, Kyle Soller, Anton Lesser, Robert Emms, Adria Arjona, Varada Sethu, Faye Marsey, Ben Mendelsohn, Benjamin Bratt, Alan Tudyk, Alistair Petrie, Jonjo O’ Neill, Joplin Sibtain, Kathryn Hunter, Alastair Mackenzie, Ben Miles, Forest Whitaker, Muhanned Bhaier, Sam Gilroy, Benjamin Norris, Richard Sammel, Thierry Godard.

If ever there was a series for our times, one that captured the zeitgeist through powerful story telling and a remarkable vision, then the second and final season of Andor would surely be the science fiction fans casting and over riding vote, one delivered with confidence and sincerity.

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(491 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

The Game. (2025). Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jason Watkins, Robson Green, Sunetra Sarker, Indy Lewis, Amber James, Jenny Rainsford, Scott Karim, Amy Huberman, Simon Harrison, Christina Bennington, Lewis Ian Bray.

The stress of being a detective with a cold case hanging over your career is something that thankfully many of us will never understand or feel; and yet for the individual who has been stretched to breaking point, taking a partner, perhaps a family with them as they close themselves off from everything except the arrest that matters, that stress can consume and eat away at you till the end of time…or until that one person on the other side of the law decides they want to resume The Game.

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

Doctor Who: The Story And The Machine. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Ncuti Gatwa, Varada Sethu, Ariyon Bakare, Sule Rimi, Michelle Asante, Stefan Adegbola, Jordan Adene, Micael Balogun, Simon Bailey, Adrian Pang, Tessa Bell-Briggs, Anita Dobson, Inua Ellams, Funmi James, Jo Martin.

Some people strive for riches beyond the point of avarice, others for power, control, influence, or even to impress; and yet the greatest authority on human existence is the abundance of tales, the intensity of stories that come flowing out of the imagination from one mind; a million pounds may buy your dreams, but it is the power and inspiration that colour life and give it meaning that wields the privilege of being human.

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(503 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Doctor Who, Asylum Of The Daleks. B.B.C. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *****

Cast: Matt Smith, Karen Gillian, Arthur Darvill, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Anamaria Marinca, David Gyasi, Naomi Ryan, Nicholas Briggs, Barnaby Edwards, Zac Fox.

It is the stuff that legends are made out of and then there is Doctor Who. The nights are beginning to draw in and what better way for the B.B.C. to showcase the autumn schedules than by the re-materialising of the blue box, two of the great companions of the modern and any era, the Doctor and an introduction to a new companion that might just be the best since Janet Fielding as the Australian flight attendant Tegan Jovanka.

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(632 words, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)

The Real Chariots Of Fire. Television Review. I.T.V.

Originally published by L.S. Media. July 4th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating * * * *

With the countdown to the Olympic Games well and truly running ever downward, the amount of television space that is going to be dedicated to all things Olympiad over the next few weeks will be hard to avoid.

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(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Psycobitches. Television Review. Sky Arts Television.

Originally published by L.S. Media. June 26th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating * * * *

Cast: Rebecca Front, Catherine Tate, Katy Brand, Sheila Reid, Samantha Spiro, Selina Griffiths, Andy Nyman.

The final part of Sky Arts series of short plays finished on a particular high with the bizarre but ultimately enjoyable Psycobitches.

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(465 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)