Category Archives: TV

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.

Pennyworth. Television Review. Series 1-3 full post

(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.

Superman & Lois. Season Four. Television Series Review. full post

(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)

NOS4A2. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ashleigh Cummings, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Zachary Quinto, Jahkara Smith, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Virginia Krull, Ashley Romans, Mattea Conforti, Jonathan Langdon, Dalton Harrod, Jason David, Celeste Arias, John James Cronin, Paul Schneider, Sweta Keswani, Larry Vigus.

It is a demonstration to the pursuit of a truth and reflection that the writing of Joe Hill resonates with so much angst and the passion of possible sorrow that it could be argued that he is able to take a step into the darkness that his own famous father, and one of the finest exponents of horror of all time, Stephen King, was unable to truly master; that of the ordinary insight given its own inference of damage.

NOS4A2. Series Two. Television Drama Review. full post

(427 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

The Agency. Television Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Katherine Waterston, Jodie Turner-Smith, Richard Gere, John Magaro, Harriet Sansom Harris, Saura Lightfoot Leon, India Fowler, Hugh Bonneville, David Harewood, Andrew Brooke, Reza Brojerdi, Alex Reznik, Bilal Hasna, Sabrina Wu, Kurt Egyiawan, Ambreen Razia, Adam Nagaitis, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Julia Westcott-Hutton, Dominic West, Edward Holcroft, Abdullahi Islaw, Elana Saurel, Juris Zagars, Olekandr Rudynskyy, Emma Lau, Curtis Lum, Sergej Onopko, Marcin Zarzeczny, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Akpore Uzoh, Violet Verigo, Alex Jennings.

The world of espionage has become so engrained into our collective psyche that for the most part it has become background noise to the genuine concerns of real life that inspires it.

The Agency. Television Drama Series Review. full post

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

The Crow Girl. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Eve Myles, Katherine Kelly, Clara Rugaard, Dougray Scott, Victoria Hamilton, Elliot Edusah, Raphael Sowole, Roger Jean Nsengiyumva, Michael Lumsden, Karen Ascoe, Isabella Astbury, Chloé Sweetlove, Jaye Ersavas, Lauren Morais, Trevor White, Winston Sawyers, Oliver Hembrough, Lu Corfield, Smylie Bradwell, Basel Osman, Andrew Buckley, Lee Boardman, Charles Dale, Julie Legrand, Malek Alkoni, Ashling O’Shea, Pasha Bocarie, Thomas Coombes, Will Barton, Sally Scott, Ellie Duckles, Noah Manzoor, Yanick Ghanty, Lisa Zahra, Alison Fitzjohn, Aso Sherabayani, Renu Brindle, Aden Gillett.

The Crow Girl. Television Drama Review. full post

(501 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)