Category Archives: TV

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Ching, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, Babs Olusanmokun, Rebecca Romijn, Paul Wesley, Adrian Holmes, Carol Kane, Melanie Scrofano, Dan Jeannotte, Bruce Horak, Mia Kirschner, Gia Sandhu, Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, Eugene Cordero, Jerry O’ Connell, Greg Byrk, Clint Howard, Martin Quinn.

To view a series with the foreknowledge of what may happen to many of the characters in the future is one that in most circumstances would arguably lead to viewer apathy, the storyline hoped for always standing in the shadows of the decline and death of a main player just so that they can feel the emotion of loss and excitement.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Series Two. Television Review. full post

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

Miracle Workers: End Times. Series Four, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Buscemi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Karan Soni, Jon Bass, Ithamar Enriquez, Erin Darke, David Dastmalchian, Annie Mumlo, Lisa Loeb, Quinta Brunson, Jon Daly, Garcelle Beauvais, Tim Heidecker, Paul F. Tompkins, Ego Nwodim, Kyle Mooney, Sascha Compère, Lolly Adefope.

Whoever thought of casting Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi together in Miracle Workers must be preserved for their intelligent and off the wall mind.

Miracle Workers: End Times. Series Four, Television Review. full post

(397 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

The Woman In The Wall. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Ruth Wilson, Simon Delaney, Philippa Dunn, Mark Huberman, Hilda Fay, Abby Fitz, Daryl McCormack, Ciara Stell, Frances Tomelty, Dermot Crowley, Caoimhe Farren, Cillian Lenaghan, Stephen Brennan, Rory Corcoran, Liam Heslin, Lynn Rafferty, Chizzy Akudolu, Ardel O’Hanlon, Eimear Morrissey, Charles Abomeli, Brendan McCormack, Aoibhinn McGinnity, Helen Roache, Anne Kent, Fiona Bell, Dominic Anglim, Brian Doherty, Genevieve Hulme Beaman, Brendan Conroy, Nicolas Nunes de Souza, Sodem Solana, Alexandra Moloney, Anthoy Kinahan, Frank O’ Sullivan, Fiona Browne, Orla Gaffney, Eoin Gleeson, Karen McCartney, Michael O’Kelly, Aisling O’Neill.

The Woman In The Wall. Television Drama Review. full post

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

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Series One Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, Babs Olusanmokun, Bruce Horak, Rebecca Romijn, Adrian Holmes, Dan Jeannotte, Gia Sandhu, Melanie Scrofano, Samantha Smith, Lindy Booth, Ian Ho, Huse Madhavji, Jesse James Keitel, Paul Wesley.

Strange New Worlds, a misfortune that we today are stuck in between two different periods of exploration and that we have lost the capability to be curious and respectful of cultures vastly different to ours; and it is to this era in which we inhabit that has flexed our need to change the world we live in, to push discovery further up the social agenda.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Series One Review. full post

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

Screw. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Nina Sosanya, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Laura Checkley, Faraz Ayub, Stephen Wright, Ron Donachie, Ben Tavassoli, Lee Ingleby, David Judge, Barnaby Kay, Nicholas Lumley, Chicho Tche, James Foster, Bill Blackwood, Mark Newsome, Nathan Vaughan Harris, Riley Carter Millington, Leo Gregory.

The representation of the British penal policy can be traced through almost every genre and system of delivery known to media as one of progression and brutal truth.

Screw. Series Two. Television Drama Review. full post

(524 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Annika. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Nicola Walker, Jamie Sives, Katie Leung, Silvie Furneaux, Ukweli Roach, Katie Dickie, Paul McGann, Varada Sethu, Taylor Goodwin, Sven Henriksen, Rebecca Root.

The art of the aside in theatre is a tribute to the writer’s immense skill to break the fourth wall in such a way that the silence on stage is filled with a cacophony of stunned appreciation. It is not so much the secret being revealed or the information shared for the audience’s elucidation, but for the truth that dare not be spoken to those who share the scene; and when this ability is taken to its next logical step on television, it highlights the weight of the unvarnished conscious at play; unhindered by the crowded thoughts of others who will only derail the investigation of the self-analysis.

Annika. Series Two. Television Drama Review. full post

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

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)