Category Archives: TV

Not Going Out. Series 13. Television Comedy Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Lee Mack, Sally Breton, Hugh Dennis, Abigail Cruttenden, Deborah Grant, Geoffrey Whitehead, Francesca Newman, Max Pattison, Finlay Southby, Selina Griffiths, Chris McCausland, Melvyn Hayes, Kiana Wu, Melanie Gray, Rich Keeble, Bryan Hands, Mukamajule Michelo, Sanchia McCormack, Viss Elliot Safavi, Tanvi Virmani, Jonny Dixon, Adam Boardman, Dan Linney, David Ajao, James Benson, Naveed Khan, Sabrina Sandhu, Matt Weyland.

Despite the loss of Bobby Ball as Lee’s Father, series 13 of the acclaimed comedy Not Going Out stands out as one that is unafraid to tackle certain sensitivities that come as life’s journey winds on.

Not Going Out. Series 13. Television Comedy Review. full post

(480 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Poker Face. Series One. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Natasha Lyonne, Benjamin Bratt, Simon Helberg, Adrian Brody, Ellen Barkin, Nick Nolte, Chloë Sevigny, Dascha Polanco, Noah Segan, Ron Perlman, Luis Guzmán, Hong Chau, Tim Meadows, Megan Suri, Colton Ryan, John Ratzenburger, Brandon Michael Hall, Judith Light, S. Epatha Merkerson, Tim Russ, Tim Blake Nelson, Joseph-Gordan Levitt, Clea Duval, David Castañeda, Lil Rel Howery, Danielle Macdonald, Shane Paul McGhie, Larry Brown, Jameela Jamil, Audrey Corsa, Charles Melton.

Poker Face. Series One. Television Drama Review. full post

(659 words, estimated 2:38 mins reading time)

Yellowjackets. Series One. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Kevin Alves, Alexa Barajas, Mya Lowe, Ella Purnell, Sarah Desjardins, Jane Widdop, Alex Wyndham, Rukiya Bernard, Aiden Stoxx, Keeya King, Rekha Sharma, Peter Gadiot, Princess Davis, Jeff Holman, Andres Soto, Jack DePew.

Yellowjackets. Series One. Television Drama Review. full post

(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Van Der Valk: Redemption In Amsterdam. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Marc Warren, Maimie McCoy, Darrell D’Silva, Emma Fielding, Azan Ahmed, Django Chan-Reeves, Daisy Badger, Lu Corfield, Aden Gillett, Simon Gregor, Jaye Griffiths, Rasmus Hardiker, Bart van den Donker, Alwin Pulinckx, Tara Hetharia, Zoë, Love Smith, Sol Vinken, Loes Haverkort, Peter van Heerlingen, Mike Libanon.

Each one of us has done something terrible in our lives, committed an act that has caused another person distress, has made perhaps a loved one think badly of our actions, and we have in return either sought out forgiveness or taken on board the anger and allowed it to define us, to be that which we have been labelled, even if it transpires that we were in the end innocent of the charge.

Van Der Valk: Redemption In Amsterdam. Television Drama Review. full post

(486 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Perry Mason. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Chris Chalk, Shea Whigham, Eric Lange, Diarra Kilpatrick, Justin Kirk, Gayle Rankin, Molly Ephraim, Katherine Waterston, Paul Raci, Jen Tullock, Mark O’Brien, Veronica Falcón, Peter Mendoza, Fabrizio Guido, Onahoua Rodriguez, Jon Chafin, Jee Young Han, Hope Davis, Stephanie Hoston, Wallace Langham, Kersti Bryan, Amber Friendly, Tom Amanes, Gretchen Mol, Mona Lee Wylde, Anthony Molinari, John DiMaggio, Jack Eyman, Brian R. Norris, Christopher Carrington, Tommy Dewey, Sean Astin.

Perry Mason is an American icon, based on a legendary criminal defence lawyer, and to whom was a staple of television in the guise of Raymond Burr in the title role.

Perry Mason. Series Two. Television Drama Review. full post

(562 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

Van Der Valk: Freedom In Amsterdam. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Marc Warren, Maimie McCoy, Darrell D’Silva, Emma Fielding, Azan Ahmed, Django Chan-Reeves, Rita Bernard-Shaw, Josh Bolt, Thoren Ferguson, Roger Jean Nsengiyumva, Patrick Aliev, Simone Giel, Erika Minderop, Loek Peters, Sieger Sloot, Chiem Vreeken, Loes Haverkort, Peter van Heeringen, Mike Libanon.

A detective’s team is a family, there may be the lone wolf who solves crimes with unnerving consistency, but they still require back up in today’s modern fight against the criminal underworld, they essentially need collaboration and reinforcement to bring the perpetrator to book, to see justice done; and yet there is the grey area which insists that if a detective has a family of sorts to help in their examinations of the crime, then the criminal themselves relies heavily on those they also have brought into their own fold.

Van Der Valk: Freedom In Amsterdam. Television Drama Review. full post

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

The Gallows Pole. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Michael Socha, Sophie McShera, Nicole Barber-Lane, Stevie Binns, Emma Chadbourne, Samuel Edward-Cook, Adam Fogerty, Rob Galloway, Sharondeep Kaur, Seigfried Moorland, Soraya Jane Nabipour, Charlotte Ockelton, Dave Perkins, Jennifer Reid, Joe Sproulle, Thomas Turgoose, Yusra Warsama, Anthony Walsh, Stuart Zubrzycki, Fine Time Fontayne, Tai Mukome, Olivia Pentelow, Harv Sodhi, Thomas Taylor, Esmae Wilson, Ralph Ineson.

Every generation sees the world through essentially the same eyes, the politics may alter, the situation that creates the division may change, but the overriding thought of any person anywhere in the world is that of having enough money in order to survive.

The Gallows Pole. Television Review. full post

(630 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: For Death Prepare. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Alexander Hanson, Clive Rowe, Kevin Whately, Samantha Spiro, Shobna Gulati, Jenna Russell, Jane Bertish, David Rubin, Dylan Wood, Tessa Wong, Matthew Bose, Ben Godard.

“A policeman’s lot is not a happy one…”

No matter how hard people within certain professions try, what they see whilst they are holding communities together, stopping cities from becoming zones overrun by fear, hate, damnation, they can never truly see the sparkle of a day without something reminding them that underneath it all the spectre of humanity’s more base instincts will rise to the surface and threaten to pour oil over small fires burning, will make any compulsion to sing one that becomes a mumble of forgotten promises in front of the paying audience.

Midsomer Murders: For Death Prepare. Television Review. full post

(538 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Inside No.9.: The Last Weekend. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Sheila Reid.

“Beware the fury of a patient man”.

The question of how long and how far you would go in order to exact revenge on the one that destroyed you is one that is dangled before us in the darkness, perhaps whispered by a friend when the Devil is on their shoulder, the one who wants to know just how far you are prepared to go so they can either aid you, or have their statement and story ready when the police come knocking on their own door.

Inside No.9.: The Last Weekend. Television Review. full post

(489 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

A Small Light. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Bel Powley, Joe Cole, Live Schreiber, Billie Boullet, Ashley Brooke, Amira Casar, Ian McElhinney, Sally Messham, Andy Nyman, Nichlas Burns, Rudi Goodman, Caroline Katz, Liza Sadovy, Laurie Kynaston, Noah Taylor, Sebastian Armesto, Bill Milner, Sean Hart, Hanna Van Vliet, Eleanor Tomlinson, Jim High, Cosima Shaw, Tom Stourton, Daniel Donskoy, Dylan Edwards, Sarah T. Cohen, Vicki Pepperdine, Victor McGuire, Jeff Rawle.

A Small Light. Television Series Review. full post

(657 words, estimated 2:38 mins reading time)