Category Archives: TV

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)

Nolly. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Con O’Neill, Augustus Prew, Mark Gatiss, Antonia Bernath, Chloe Harris, Lloyd Griffiths, Richard Lintern, Bethany Antonia, Clare Foster, Emily Butcher, Matt Crosby, Emily Langham, Adele Taylor, Adam Morris, Kerry Washington, Sophie Lucas, Philip Gascoyne, Max Brown, Paulo Braghetto, Tim Wallers.

For anybody who had not yet opened their eyes and stared at the fuzzy images of life at a time when even five terrestrial stations seemed excessive, to find out that there were simple homegrown programmes that could command such loyalty of viewers that over 15 million people would tune in and watch convoluted plots and the now famous ‘wonky sets’, they would consider it a preposterous notion, absurd nostalgia that could not be true.

Nolly. Television Drama Review. full post

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

A Spy Among Friends. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Guy Pearce, Damian Lewis, Anna Maxwell Martin, Adrian Edmondson, Stephen Kunken, Monika Gossmann, Nicholas Rowe, Karel Roden, Puiu Mircea Lascus, Lucy Russell, Lucy Akhurst, Jennifer Marsala, Alexander Terentyev, Anastasia Hille, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, Steven Elder, Thomas Arnold, Gilly Gilchrist, Daniel Lapaine, Jacob James Beswick, Mark Flitton, Rick Warden, Colin Mace, Jed Aukin, Anna Andresen, David Coomber, Jay Simpson, Lucinda Raikes, Nicholas Pritchard, Morgane Ferru, Denis Khoroshko, Kate Fahy, Jolyon Coy, George Taylor, Reza Diako, Alice Barclay, Tugba Tirpan, Ruth Clarson, Edward Baker-Duly, Roger Barclay, Orlando Wells, Justine Mitchell, Mark Tandy.

A Spy Among Friends. Television Drama Review. full post

(773 words, estimated 3:06 mins reading time)

Romantic Getaway. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Romesh Ranganathan, Katherine Ryan, Johnny Vegas, Harrie Hayes, Phaldut Sharma, Neil D’Souza, Julie Legrand, Jordan Coulson, Mensah Bediako, Jackie Morrison, Stephen Samson, Jerry-Jane Pears, Chris Aukett, Charlie Brook, Alwyne Taylor, Charles Baker, Martin Buchanan, Mara Allen, Billy Clements, Alexandr Delamere, Tom Davis, Lila Garrad, Jules Brown, Adam Young, Melissa Phillips, David Bresnahan, Farshid Rokey, Steven Jeram, Simon DeSilva, Chris Robb, Lindsay Townley.

What could be the most desired event in your life you could make happen without stepping across a moral line.

Romantic Getaway. Television Review. full post

(559 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Willow. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Ruby Cruz, Warwick Davis, Ellie Bamber, Erin Kellyman, Tony Revolori, Amar Chadha-Patel, Dempsey Byrk, Claudia Hughes, Ralph Ineson, Graham Hughes, Joonas Suotamo, Sifiso Mazibuko, Kenny Knight, Joanne Whalley, Rosebell Laurenti Sellers, Adwoa Aboah, Derek Horsham, Annabelle Davis, Simeon Dyer, Daniel Naprous, Eileen Davies, Vitas Le Bas, Charlie Rawes, Talisa Garcia, Alexis Rodney, Christian Slater, Tom Wilton, Dee Tails, Simon Armstrong, Mario Revolori, Jean Marsh, Julian Glover, Sarah Bennett, Sallyanne Law, Hannah Waddingham, Amalia Vitale.

Willow. Television Series Review. full post

(585 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

Stonehouse. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Kevin McNally, Keeley Hawes, Dorothy Atkinson, Emer Heatley, Simon Greenall, Orla Bird, Aoife Checkland, Archie Barnes, Paul Westwood, Celia Robertson, Alex Caan, Robin Laing, Timothy Walker, Will Adamsdale, Albert Welling, Catherine Skinner, Emma Davies, Jessica Murrain, Rupert Wickham, Sam Lockwood, Samantha Yetunde, Alan Sylvester, Dainton Anderson, Brian Caspe, Ieva Andrejevaite, Igor Grabuzov, Richard Dillane, Carl Batchelor, Devon Black, Elyot Burnett, Celeste Wong, Timothy Knightley, Adrian Metcalfe, Jeremy Secomb, Jonathan Rhodes, Mike Sengelow, Crispin Letts.

Stonehouse. Television Review. full post

(593 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)