Category Archives: TV

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)

Midsomer Murders: The Witches Of Angel’s Rise. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Clive Mantle, Caroline Lee-Johnson, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Sarah Paul, Ian Bartholomew, Colin Salmon, Janie Duvitski, Cian Barry, Tristan Sturrock, Richard David-Caine, Jordan Ford Silver, Bettrys Jones, Jessica Whitehurst, Erin Mullen, Holly Willoughby.

In every English village there surely must be at least one person to whom the belief of the dark arts marks them out as strange within the tightly wrapped community. The interest shown at a young age in magic, in spells, the lure of the Tarot cards and all that it entails, can leave the collective gossiping, pointing the finger at the outsider, and marking them out as one to avoid.

Midsomer Murders: The Witches Of Angel’s Rise. Television Review. full post

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

Becoming Elizabeth. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alice von Rittennberg, John Heffernan, Oliver Zetterström, Jamie Parker, Romola Garai, Leo Bill, Ekow Quartey, Tom Cullen, Jacob Avery, Jamie Blackley, Alexandra Gilbreath, Bella Ramsey, Alex Macqueen, Jessica Raine, Ryan Nolan, Olivier Huband, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, Stanley Townsend, Ben Moor, Robert Whitelock, Alfie Todd, Oliver Bennett, Lucy Speed.

Becoming Elizabeth. Television Drama Review. full post

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

Chapelwaite. Television Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Adrien Brody, Emily Hampshire, Jennifer Enns, Sirena Gulamgaus, Ian Ho, Hugh Thompson, Gord Rand, Genevieve DeGraves, Trina Corkum, Devante Senior, Allegra Fulton, Eric Peterson, Michael Hough, Jennie Raymond, Dean Armstrong, Dean Armstrong, Steven McCarthy, Christopher Heyerdahl, Gabrielle Rose, Julian Richings, Gina Thornhill, James MacLean, Jeremy Akerman, Briony Merritt, Joanne Boland, Glen Lefchak, Acadia Colan, Sebastian Labelle, Charlie Rhindress, David Rosetti, Lily Gao.

Chapelwaite. Television Drama Series Review. full post

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

Ghosts (US). Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Rose McIver, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Brandon Scott Jones, Daielle Pinnock, Richie Moriarty, Asher Grodman, Sheila Carrasco, Rebecca Wisocky, Devan Chandler Long, Román Zaragoza, John Hartman, Betsy Sodaro, Trostan D. Lalla, Authur Holden, Nigel Downer, Stuart Fink, Christian Daoust, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Punam Petel, Nichole Sakura, Mark Linn-Baker, Crystle Lightning, Kathryn Greenwood, Mike Lane, Lindsey Broad, Matt Walsh, Matthew Baynton, Odessa A’zion, Dakota Taylor.

Of all the British comedies to have been adapted and altered for the American market, none have arguably come as close to capturing the fine nuances and characterisation that a comedy needs in order to be more than just funny, than that of Ghosts.

Ghosts (US). Series Two. Television Review. full post

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

World On Fire: Series Two. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jonah Hauer-King, Lesley Manville, Julia Brown, Zofia Wichlacz, Mark Bonnar, Parker Sawyers, Blake Harrison, Eugénie Derouand, Ewan Mitchell, Ahad Raza Mir, Miriam Schiweck, Gregg Sulkin, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Eryk Biedunkiewicz, Cel Spellman, Johanna Götting, Beat Marti, Carl Grübel, Matthias Lier, Jonathan Harden, Grace Chilton, Arthur Choisnet.

World On Fire might not be the most in depth, the most heroic, the fiercest critique of World War Two, but it has a sense of honour and grace to it that many television series have neglected, overshadowed, or even pumped up as if to show the period of waste and fear as though it is one big adventure: a celluloid advert for the want of war.

World On Fire: Series Two. Television Series Review. full post

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

Clean Sweep. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Charlene Mckenna, Barry Ward, Aiden McCann, Rhys Mannion, Katelyn Rose Downey, Jeanne Nicole Ni Áinle, Adam Fergus, Aoibheann McCann, Nathara Dayananda, Grace Collender, Cathy Belton, Benjamin Bergin, Robert Mitchell, Kevin Trainor, Orla Casey, Trevor Kaneswaran, Roisin Rankin, Ray Weafer, Sean Duggan, Joe Rooney, Oscar Nolan, Youssef Quinn, Tristan Heanue, Breffni Clack, Steve Gunn, Maeron Libomi, Niall Bishop, Bernadette Carty, Fergus Mulligan.

How far we go to erase our part in a moral and societal transgression is purely at the conscious of our very being. This is especially true when we commit murder to cover up a murder.

Clean Sweep. Television Drama Review. full post

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

Wolf. Televison Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Ukweli Roach, Juliet Stephenson, Owen Teale, Annes Elwy, Sacha Dhawan, Iwan Rheon, Kezia Burrows, Ciarán Joyce, Gwïon Morris Jones, Anthony Webster, Sian Reese-Williams, Zadeiah Campbell-Davies, Emily Adara, Oscar Coleman, Amanda Drew, Luke Rhodri, Andy Eadie, Tim Treloar, Karl Johnson, Kai Owen, Mabil Jên Eustace, Simon Dwyer-Thomas.

There have been a multitude of tales brought to the television viewer’s attention which focus on the ferocity of being to be found within the psychopath, of the damaged, and those to whom society has itself bullied and tormented and then not understood why the dog that was kicked has turned and bitten back.

Wolf. Televison Drama Series Review. full post

(519 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Maggie Moore(s). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jon Hamm, Christopher Denham, Tina Fey, Nick Mohammed, Mary Holland, Allison Dunbar, Happy Anderson, Louise Krause, Oona Roche, Tate Ellington, Richard Lippert, Micah Stock, Gabriela Alicia Ortega, Peter Diseth, Joseph Ortega, Nicholas Azarian, Bobbi Kitten, Crystal Mayes, Jodi Lynn Thomas, Derek Basco, Sewell Whitney, Roni Geva, Christopher Kriesa, Bryant Carroll, Kristin K. Berg, Sale Taylor, Jeff Allen, Claire Hinkley.

Maggie Moore(s). Film Review. full post

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

1883. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tim McGraw, Sam Elliott, Faith Hill, Isabel May, LaMonica Garrett, Audie Rick, Marc Rissmann, James Landry Hébert, Anna Fiamora, Malcolm Stephenson, Amanda Jaros, Jordan Walker Ross, Stephen Austin Long, Konstantin Melikhov, Eric Nelsen, Noah Le Gros, Josef Bette, Eric Bear, James Jordan, Rob Mello, Martin Sensmeier, Sacha Seberg, Neal Kodinsky, Daen Olivieri, David Midthunder, Billy Bob Thornton, Rita Wilson, Graham Greene, Tom Hanks.

1883. Television Drama Review. full post

(498 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)