Category Archives: TV

Doctor Who: Lux. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Ncuti Gatwa, Varada Sethu, Alan Cumming, Linus Roache, Anita Dobson, Ian Shaw, Cassius Hackforth, Ryan Speakman, Millie O’ Connell, Lewis Cornay, Lucy Thackeray, Jane Hancock, William Meredith, Samir Arrian, Bronte Barb, Steph Lacey.

For what seems like a lifetime, the opening two episodes of a series of Doctor Who have been strong, well imagined, and framed with the type of intrigue and long vision scheming that made the long running science fiction serial a much-loved institution in its time.

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(366 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ncuti Gatwa, Varada Sethu, Anita Dobson, Jonny Green, Max Parker, Thalia Dudek, Stefan Haines, Belinda Owusu, Tom Storey, Stephen Love, Robert Strange, Nicholas Briggs, Evelyn Miller, Charles Sandford, Lucas Edwards, Caleb Hughes, Nadine Higgin, William Ellis.

In a timely reflection on the use of A.I. in the 21st Century, the ethics of appropriation of personal data and biometrics by governments, and the misuse, indeed theft of the individual artists work to train the aspects of artificial intelligence, years of authorship and writing stolen in what can be seen as a monumental reckless abandonment of ethics; so the opening episode of the new series of Doctor Who, The Robot Revolution casts its eye on an old favourite theme, the forgoing of the human existence and spirit in favour of the possibly oppressive, the creeping evil of binary A.I.

Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution. Television Review. full post

(449 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Yellowjackets: Series Three. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Christina Rikki, Sophie Nélisse, Tawny Cypress, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samatha Hanratty, Warren Kole, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Kevin Alves, Alexa Barajas, Steven Krueger, Sarah Desjardins, Lauren Ambrose, Hilary Swank, Jenna Burgess, Nia Sondaya, Ella Purnell, Elijah Wood, Simone Kessell, Rukiya Bernard, Aiden Stoxx, Keeya King, Nicole Maines, Anisa Harris, Silvana Estifanos, Vanessa Prasad, Jeff Holman, Joel McHale.

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

Miss Scarlet. Series Five. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Kate Phillips, Tom Durant-Pritchard, Cathy Belton, Paul Bazely, Simon Ludders, Evan McCabe, Tim Chipping, Felix Scott, Amy Marston, Paul Thornley, Nitin Ganatra, Lucy Liemann, Stephen Hartley, Stephen Boxer, Karl Theobald, Andrej Sepetkovski, Joseph May, Paul Leonard Murray, Rebecca Collingwood, Ian Hughes, Paul Lacoux, Petar Zekavica, Milos Pantic, Brian Bovell, Vahidin Prelic, Milan Cucilovic, Ivana Adzic, Milan Milosavljevic, Branislav Zeremski, Robin Weaver, Anna Wilson-Jones, David Sturzaker, Lindsay Bennett-Thompson, Nikola Surbanovic, Filip Radovanovic, Joakim Tasic.

Miss Scarlet. Series Five. Television Drama Review. full post

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

The Marlow Murder Club: Series 2. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Samantha Bond, Jo Martin, Cara Horgan, Natalie Dew, Hollie Dempsey, Phil Langhorne, Tijan Sarr, Niall Costigan, Ella Kenion, Rita Tushingham, Sophia Ally, Ian Barritt, Amelia Valentina Pankhania, Ethan Quinn, Tegan Imani, Lizzie Roper, Emily Bevan, Raphael Akuwudike, Sam Janus, Abigail Cruttenden, Caroline Langrishe, Nina Sosanya, William Willoughby, Hugh Quarshie, Dominic Mafham.

A second season of The Marlow Murder Club was always on the cards, but sometimes popular doesn’t always reach into the depths of the crime that begs to be solved by the armchair detective; sometimes the presented piece is too warm, too cosy to be anything other than a distraction offered with the best intentions of drama.

The Marlow Murder Club: Series 2. Television Drama Review. full post

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

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Cast: Lucy Boynton, Toby Jones, Toby Stephens, Mark Stephens, Joe Armstrong, Mark Stanley, Juliet Stephenson, Bessie Carter, Arthur Darvill, Laurie Davidson, Amanda Drew, Gloria Obianyo, Jack Staddon, Ed Sayer, Adam Lawrence, Tony Wadham, Sidney Jackson, Darren Charman, Tim Pierpoint, Maddy Hill, Rowan Robinson, Audrey Brisson, Nigel Havers.

We live in a different time, crimes for the most part that shocked a generation that was still living with the hangover from the Victorian era, and which carried a greater degree of punishment, now would be scoured over completely, every detail of the crime pursued and in some cases the public response would be more noticeable, more intense, as social media informed people of everything that was reported; and an awful lot that wasn’t.


A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story. Television Drama Review. full post

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

Towards Zero. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ella Lily Hyland, Matthew Rhys, Mimi Keene, Clarke Peters, Jack Farthing, Anjana Vasan, Adam Hugill, Khalil Ben Gharbia, Jackie Clune, Grace Doherty, Anjelica Huston, Ravi Multani, Jack Staddon, Alexander Cobb, James Brooker, Lyle Wren, Michael Culkin, Honor Davis-Pye, Samuel W. Hodgson, Tristan Beint, Peter Forbes, Alexander Squires.

Murder, at its most inventive, sells for television and cinema almost unlike any other genre; it is the basic desire to see the restitution of justice, the chance for the armchair detective to sharpen their wits against the author of the piece, and to satisfy a need to see if they could indeed also get away with the most horrendous of acts one human can commit on another.

Towards Zero. Television Drama Review. full post

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

Pennyworth. Television Review. Series 1-3

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10

Cast: Jack Bannon, Ryan Fletcher, Dorothy Atkinson, Ben Aldridge, Emma Paetz, Ramon Tikaram, Paloma Faith, Harriet Slater, Polly Walker, Jason Flemyng, Ian Puleston-Davies, Simon Manyonda, Hainsley Lloyd Bennett, Simon Day, Anna Chancellor, Saikat Ahamed, Jessica Ellerby, Edward Hogg, James Purefoy, Danny Webb, Salóme Gunnarsdóttir, Tristram Wymark, Sarah Alexander, Richard Dillane, Paul Kaye, Jonjo O’Neill, Emma Corrin, Jing Lusi, Freddy Carter, Peter Guinness, Jaye Griffiths, Dermot Crowley, Sally Phillips, Felicity Kendal, Sam Hoare.

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

Superman & Lois. Season Four. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Alex Garfin, Michael Bishop, Erik Valdez, Inde Navarrette, Wolé Parks, Tayler Buck, Sofia Hasmik, Chad L. Coleman, Dylan Walsh, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Michael Dudlitz, Mariana Klaveno, Yvonne Chapman, Paul Lazenby, Ryan Jefferson, Rebecca Staab, Elizabeth Henstridge, Michelle Scarabelli, Laara Sadiq, Natalie Moon, Samantha Di Francesco, Adrian Glynn McMorran, Douglas Smith, Tom Cavanagh, Nikolai Witschl, Dean Redman, David Giuntoli, Dominic Fugere.

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(579 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

Dexter: Original Sin. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Patrick Gibson, Christian Slater, Molly Brown, Christina Milian, James Martinez, Alex Shimizu, Reno Wilson, Patrick Dempsey, Michael C. Hall, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Brittany Allen, Aaron Jennings, Raquel Justice, Sarah Kinsey, Eli Sherman, Jasper Lewis, Xander Mateo, London Thatcher, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Issac Gonzalez Rossi, Chandler Lovelle, Roberto Sanchez, Amanda Brooks, Carlo Mendez, Randy Gonzalez, Roby Attal, Brayden Gleave, Caryle Tamaren.

Serial killers rarely display or grasp the idea of empathy, and we the onlookers to their crimes are often surprised by the notion that they attract a huge fan base during their lifetime once they have been placed behind bars.

Dexter: Original Sin. Television Series Review. full post

(576 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)