Category Archives: TV

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Inside No.9: 3 x 3. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Lee Mack, Tiajna Amayo, James Bailey, Kiran L. Dadlani, Gemma Page, Mary Keegan, Ronay Poole, Jim Rastall, James Tucker, Saskia Wakefield.

A piece of television that keeps you awake during the night, that has taken your reason out for a long walk and left it at the roadside attached to a pole and driven off at high speed, is to be congratulated for the sheer audacity in which it has been conceived and executed.

Miss Scarlet And The Duke. Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kate Phillips, Stuart Martin, Ansi Kabia, Evan McCabe, Felix Scott, Sophie Robertson, Brian Bovell, Cathy Belton, Simon Ludders, Sam Hoare, Tim Chipping, Tafline Steen, Greg Haiste, Robert Wilfort, Emma Gojkovic, Joseph May, Will Merrick, Tamsin Newlands, Liz Crowther, James Barriscale.

There are detective series that stand out for an entirely different reason than that which are forever hoping to attain.