Category Archives: TV

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans. Television Review. (2023).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Will Poulter, Lucy Boynton, Daniel Ings, Jonathan Jules, Alistair Petrie, Nicholas Asbury, Maeve Dermody, Nia Trussler Jones, Christian Patterson, Morwenna Banks, Richard Dixon, Benedict Wolf, Leon Ockenden, Amy Nuttall, Miles Jupp, Paul Whitehouse, Hugh Laurie, Rufus Bateman, Nicholas Banks, Joshua James, Patrick Barlow, Carlie Enoch, Conleth Hill, Alfie Bottley, Tim Treloar, Tom Farrer, Maxine Evans, Sam Farrer, Dan Tetsell, Maggie McCarthy, Timothy Harker, Robert Rhodes, Martyn Ellis, Trevor Cooper, Andria Doherty, Bob Goody, Simon Markey, Jim Broadbent, Emma Thompson.

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans. Television Review. (2023). full post

(553 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Beyond Paradise. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kris Marshall, Sally Breton, Zahra Ahmadi, Dylan Llewellyn, Felicity Montague, Barbara Flynn, Jamie Bamber, Jade Harrison, Annette Badland, Ingrid Oliver, Phil Daniels, Monserat Lombard, Ruth Madoc, Pooky Quesnel, Marcia Warren, Samantha Spiro, Don Warrington, Ralf Little, Shantol Jackson, Tahj Miles, Spencer Jones.

“Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.”

Beyond Paradise. Television Series Review. full post

(656 words, estimated 2:37 mins reading time)

Grace: Dead Like You. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Simm, Zoë Tapper, Craig Parkinson, Richie Campbell, Laura Elphinstone, Brad Morrison, Clare Calbraith, Boni Adeliyi, Andy Apollo, Rakie Ayola, Lizzie Back, Steve Broad, Joanna Brookes, Eliot Cable, Charlotte Christof, Alexander Cobb, Darcy Collins, Thomas Coombes, Rai Endah, Heather Ann Foster, Ernest Gromov, Darragh Hand, Robert Hands, Molly Harris, Jo Herbert, Sam Hoare, Rob Jarvis, Claudia Jolly, Max Krupski, Kiera Lester, Sibylla Meienberg, Henry Miller, Luke Norris, Jack Pierce, Tyler-Jo Richardson, Rebecca Scoggs, Nicholas Tizzard, Ben Wiggins, Charlotte Workman, Jay Oliver Yip.

Grace: Dead Like You. Television Drama Review. full post

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

The Last Of Us. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Anna Torv, Lamar Johnson, Melanie Lynskey, Nico Parker, Merie Dandridge, Keivonn Woodard, Jeffrey Pierce, John Getz, Gabriel Luna, Samuel Hoeksema, Olivier Ross-Parent. Scott Shepherd, Storm Reid, Troy Baker, Ashley Johnson, Nick Offerman, Rutina Wesley, John Hannah, Terry Chen, Christine Hakim, Murray Bartlett, Ari Rombough, Yayu A.W. Unro, Graham Greene, Sonia Maria Chirila, Josh Brener, Ruby Lybbert, Sharon Crandall, Christopher Heyerdahl, Nelson Leis, Elaine Miles.

Never has the genre of the zombie apocalypse ever been so in tune with major environmental concerns as the television adaptation of The Last Of Us has managed to portray.

The Last Of Us. Television Series Review. full post

(550 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Endeavour: Exeunt. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Sean Rigby, Anton Lesser, Caroline O’Neill, James Bradshaw, Sara Vickers, Abigail Thaw, Jack Bannon, Jack Laskey, Danny Webb, Phil Daniels, Mo Sesay, Brian Pettifer, Will Brown, Christopher Godwin, Victoria Alcock, Meg Kubota, Jo Stone-Fewings, Joseph Macnab, Tomi Ogbaro, Richard Ridings, Laura Branigan, Philip Wright, Jack Hamilton, Ross Green, Rufus Wright.

In the end, everybody must leave for pastures new; only those with unfinished business or the ones that guard the memories and secrets of their fallen comrades remain in vigil.

Endeavour: Exeunt. Television Review. full post

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

Our Flag Means Death. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Rhys Darby, Taika Waititi, Con O’Neill, Joel Fry, Samson Kayo, Nathan Foad, Matthew Maher, Kristian Nairn, Samba Schutte, Ewen Bremner, Vico Ortiz, Nat Faxon, Rory Kinnear, Guz Khan, David Fane, Eden Grace Redfield, William Barber-Holler, Leslie Jones, Connor Barrett, Boris McGiver, Fred Armisen, Michael Crane, Theo Darby, Angus Sampson, Nick Kroll, Simone Kessell, Kristen Schaal, Kristen Johnston, Mateo Gallegos, Damien Gerard, Carlos Areliano, Ashna Sharan, Christian Lagadec, Jeff Lorch, Cornelius Peter.

History is but a consecutive set of lies passed off as fact and written down in accordance by historians to dispute at leisure.

Our Flag Means Death. Television Review. full post

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

Endeavour: Uniform. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Sean Rigby, Anton Lesser, Caroline O’Neill, James Bradshaw, Sara Vickers, Abigail Thaw, Kevin McNally, Leo Starr, Richard Hope, Jake Kenny-Byrne, Bill Skinner, Todd Bell, Milo Mackenzie, Shaheen Khan, Ayesha Antoine, Jack Bannon, Michael Keane, Paul Bazely, Simon Harrison, Laurence Spellman, Jack Laskey.

The pieces are coming together, but even when the puzzle is complete, the chances are that the revealed picture will be one that still won’t give all the answers that are being sought by the armchair detective and sofa sleuth alike.

Endeavour: Uniform. Television Review. full post

(399 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Endeavour: Prelude. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Sean Rigby, Anton Lesser, Caroline O’Neill, James Bradshaw, Sara Vickers, Abigail Thaw, Nicholas Farrell, James Anderson, Nicholas Boulton, Rob Ostlere, Leaphia Darko, Imogen Daines, Tamsin Newlands, Kirsten Louie, Jane Lapotaire, James Doherty, Simon Harrison, Jack Bannon, Jenny Galloway, Jason Lines.

What was that single moment in your life where everything you did after was just a continuation, the first touch of the Prelude of temptation which led you on the path in which your actions affected everything you did and all those around you.

Endeavour: Prelude. Television Review. full post

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

National Treasure: Edge Of History. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Lisette Olivera, Zuri Reed, Antonio Cipriano, Jordan Rodrigues, Jake Austin Walker, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Brenda Wool, Lyndon Smith, Armando Riesco, Darri Ingolfsson, Salena Qureshi, Dustin Ingram, Tommy Savas, Joseph D. Reitman, Jacob Vargas, Alejandro Edda, Patrick Brennan, Kathleen York, Vanessa Vasquez, Chris Browing, Gariel ‘G -Rod’ Rodriguez, Jay Montalvo, Ben Taylor, Derek Russo, Neal Kodinsky, Shane Paitlow, Tevin Marbeth, Davod Kellaway, Derek Evans.

National Treasure: Edge Of History. Television Series Review. full post

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

His Dark Materials. Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy, Amir Wilson, Will Keen, Lewin Lloyd, Jade Anouka, Simone Kirby, Chipo Chung, Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje, Jonathan Aris, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Jamie Ward, Sian Clifford, Alex Hassell, Lia Williams, Simon Harrison, Amber Fitzgerald-Woolfe, Nina Sosanya, Andrew Scott, Lin Manuel Miranda, Victoria Hamilton, Kit Connor, Joe Tandberg, Sope Dirisu, Lindsay Duncan, Kate Ashfield, Emma Tate, Patricia Allison, Tuppence Middleton, Sorcha Groundsell, Wade Briggs, Peter Wright.

His Dark Materials. Series Three. Television Review. full post

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