Category Archives: TV

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.

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(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.

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(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.

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(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)

Rabbit Hole. Televison Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Meta Golding, Enid Graham. Rob Yang, Walt Klink, Charles Dance, Jason Butler Harner, Alexandra Castillo, Matthew MacFadzean, Maia Jae Bastidas, Wendy Makkena, Peter Weller, Phil Burke, Jonas Chernick, Graham Harvey, Elisa Campanella, Jorja Cadence, Ishan Davé, Erin Karpluk, Jed Rees, Josetta Jorge, Stephen Bogaert, Megan Follows, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Lance Henriksen.

The conspiracy theory is often always proved, if not completely vindicated, then at least remarkably close to being true; or at least as many would have you believe.

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

We Hunt Together. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Eve Myles, Babou Ceesay, Hermoine Corfield, Vicki Pepperdine, Dipo Ola, Kris Marshall, Babirya Bukilwa, Sharlene Whyte, Neil Stuke, Nigel Harman, Freya Durkan, Steffan Rhodri, Ayomidun Odunaiya, Anaya Beckford-Cole, Kate Dobson, Sylvie Erskine, Anthony Shuster, Perry Fitzpatrick, Kamare Abraham, Michael Bertenshaw, James Redmond.

We fear the murderer in our midst with quite rightful concern, the image of the lone slayer is one that frequents crime novels and the news with ever increasing abundance. From the insatiable to the silent and the patient killer, our screens are filled with the character to whom we see in our nightmares, whose figure is one to whom our own personal Grim Reaper leaves us dreading making their acquaintance.

We Hunt Together. Television Drama Review. full post

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

Secret Invasion. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Emilia Clarke, Don Cheadle, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Killian Scott, Ben Mendelsohn, Olivia Coleman, Charlayne Woodward, Samuel Adewunmi, Katie Finneran, Irmena Chichikova, Cobie Smulders, Dermot Mulroney, Michael Epp, Anna Madeley, Mark Bazeley, Mark Lewis, Christopher McDonald, Martin Freeman, Nisha Aaliya, Uriel Emil, Tony Curran.

There was a time when artists, actors of all persuasions and abilities, were being dragged to the Senate to give evidence, and to name those to whom they ‘suspected’ of what was euphemistically called ‘Anti-American Activities’, essentially of harbouring the supposed ill-will against the United States of America in the fight against America.

Secret Invasion. Television Series Review. full post

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

Yellowjackets: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, Sophie Néilsse, Nicole Maines, Elijah Wood, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Kevin Alves, Alexa Barajas, Luciano Leroux, Mya Lowe, Ella Purnell, Sarah Desjardins, Jane Widdop, Alex Wyndham, Rukiya Bernard, Aiden Stoxx, Simone Kessell, Lauren Ambrose, Nia Sondaya, Rekha Sharma, Nuha Jes Izman, John Reynolds, Jeff Holman.

Television series come and go with alarming ferocity, and to be caught in its glare for more than one series is to admit in modern terms that there is a seismic appreciation for the tale being played out for the benefit of the viewer.

Yellowjackets: Series Two. Television Review. full post

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