Category Archives: TV

Avenue 5. Series 2. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Hugh Laurie, Josh Gad, Zach Woods, Rebecca Front, Suzy Nakamura, Lenora Crichlow, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ethan Phillips, Himesh Patel, Jessica St. Clair, Kyle Bornheimer, Andy Buckley, Daisy May Cooper, Ada, Pålsson, Neil Casey, Lucy Punch, Justin Edwards, John Finnemore, Sacharissa Claxton, Leila Farzad, Jonathan Aris, Arsher Ali, Kelly Coughlin, Julian Ovenden, Priyanga Burford, David Fynn, Julianna Kurokawa, Joanna Scanlan, Amanda Lawrence.

To be given the opportunity to study the craft of a genius, that is surely all any writer or observer of life can ever hope to be gifted, and to be involved with one of Britain’s foremost political satirists and writers of modern farce, even in a viewing capacity, must be at the very least, sheer heaven.

Avenue 5. Series 2. Television Review. full post

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

Ghosts: It’s Behind You. Christmas Special 2022. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Charlotte Ritchie, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Lolly Adefope, Matthew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond.

Making plans and celebrating special occasions is a staple of humanity’s need for order, and Christmas is perhaps the time when those plans, carefully drawn to the minute with military like precision, are likely to come apart at the seams, fraying at the edge, causing upset and damage to the one so immersed in believing that to be perfect is the least that is acceptable.

Ghosts: It’s Behind You. Christmas Special 2022. Television Review. full post

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

Inside No.9: The Bones of St. Nicholas. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Simon Callow, Shobna Gulati.

Never mind Halloween, if you want to feel the chill of fear wrap its clawed hand around your heart and mind, then Christmas is the time in which the intoxication of the spirit is more than just filling a glass of your favourite tipple, it is the beginning and the end of all things rational.

Inside No.9: The Bones of St. Nicholas. Television Review. full post

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

I Hate Susie Too. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Billie Piper, Daniel Ings, Leila Farzad, Matthew Jordan-Caws, Lorraine Ashbourne, Phil Daniels, Douglas Hodge, Blake Harrison, Elle Piper, Katy Trafford, Bessie Carter, Layton Williams, Omari Douglas, Reza Diako, Gary Lamont, Jolyon Coy, Ayesha Antoine, Angela Sant’Albano, Yasser Zadeh, Tobi Ejirele, Emmanuel Kome, Fred Fergus, Anastasia Jille, Peter Caulfield, Jude Mack, Elijah W Harris, Bea Svistunenko, Craig McCulloch, Lucy Martin, Sandra Huggett, Ambika Mod.

It is perhaps to be thankful that for the vast majority of us, someone like Suzie Pickles is but a figure to whom we might only come across when we are confronted with when they make a bee line to inject concern and chaos into our lives.

I Hate Susie Too. Television Review. full post

(506 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Strike: Troubled Blood. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger, Sophie Ward, Jonas Armstrong, Kenneth Cranham, Robin Askwith, Sutara Gayle, Abigail Lawrie, Jessica Impiazzi, Georgia Furlong, Tilly Walker, Carys Bowkett, Thomas Harper-Jones, Ian Redford, Linda Bassett, Syrus Lowe, Phil Langhorne, Kerr Logan, Sarah Sweeney, Genevieve Hulme Beaman, Artie Wilkinson-Hunt, Morgan Jones, Kate Speak, Kierston Wareing, Calvin Dean, Charlie Price, Samuel Oatley, Fionnula Flanagan, Mazz Murray, Giles Matthey, Toni Peach, Eliza Collings, Jack Morris, Ruth Sheen, Andy de la Tour, Jacob James Beswick, Lionelle Nsarhaza, Sam Woolf, Crispin Letts, James Corrigan, Celia Learmonth, Jack Greenlees, Carol MacReady, Anna Calder-Marshall, Madhav Sharma, Dayo Koleosho, Claire Dunbar, Simon Snashall, Ben Crompton, Flaminia Cinque, Cherie Lunghi, Edward Rowe, Michael Tully, Daniel Peacock, Michael Byrne, Mary Roscoe, Billy Boyle, Mollie Holder, Christina Cole, Charlotte Eaton, Henri Merriam, Phil Cornwell, Suzanne Burden, Joe Johnsey.

Strike: Troubled Blood. Television Review. full post

(627 words, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

Vienna Blood: Deadly Communion. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Matthew Beard, Jurgen Maurer, Amelia Bullmore, Conleth Hill, Charlene McKenna, Luise von Finckh, Raphael von Bargan, Szonja Oroszlán, Lara Mandoki, Lisa Marie Pothoff, Nils Arzimann, Lujza Hajdú, Sara Schmitt, Jurgen Maurer, Josef Ellers, Robert Reinagl, Anna Kulbatzki, Victoria Nikolaaevskaj, Ákos Inotay, Markus Freistätter, Luise von Finckh, Xaver Hutter, David Rott, Dániel Kozma, Miriam Hie, Rainer Egger, Péter Végh, Raphael von Bergen, Zsófia Bach, Attila Arpa, Ilvie Moritz, Maria Köstlinger, Laura Podlovica, Lilla Czvikker, Mara Romel, Stefen Puntigam, Levente Törköly.

The fashion industry is murder.

Vienna Blood: Deadly Communion. Television Review. full post

(577 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

The English. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Chaske Spencer, Emily Blunt, Tom Hughes, Steve Wall, Stephen Rae, Valerie Pachner, Malcolm Storry, Nicholas Aaron, Ciarán Hinds,  Ian Pirie, Toby Jones, Miguel Alvarez, William Belleau, Walt Klink, Cristian Solimeno, Tadhg Murphy, Rafe Spall, Julian Bleach, Jan Knightley, Rod Rondeaux, Corey Bird, Sam Alexander, Tonantzin Carmelo, Nichola McAuliffe, Andy Williams, Kristian Phillips, Ben Temple, Gary Farmer, Arturo Vazquez, Matilda Ziobrowski, Jimmy Shaw, Benjamin Victor, Edward Crook, Kimberly Guerrero, Stuart Milligan.

The English. Television Series Review. full post

(597 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

Perception. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Eric McCormack, Rachael Leigh Cook, Kelly Rowan, Arjay Smith, LeVar Burton, Scott Wolf, Brad Rowe, Jonathan Scarfe, DJ Qualls, Dan Lauria, Shane Coffey, Robert Curtis Brown, Chris Gartin, David Paymer, Peter Coyote, Jamie Bamber.

Psychotherapy, a treatment of the analysis of the mind…we understand so little of what drives human behaviour, what guides the brain and how it sparks certain actions by the person, that it is reasonable to look upon the practise with some suspicion, an excuse provided by opinion to keep a criminal, a murderer, an abuser, away from facing the full fury of justice.

Perception. Television Series Review. full post

(596 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

House Of The Dragon. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Paddy Considine, Rhys Ifans, Matt Smith, Emma D’ Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Milly Alcock, Fabian Frankel, Eve Best, Graham McTavish, Bill Paterson, Steve Toussaint, Jefferson Hall, Gavin Spokes, Sonoya Mizurio, Matthew Needham, Milly Alcock, Emily Carey, David Horovitch, Kurt Egyiawan, Luke Tittensor, Phil Daniels, Anthony Flanagan, Ewan Mitchell, Ty Tennant, Sian Brooke, Garry Cooper.

Power is not only in hands of those wield it in the moment, but to those who can claim lineage to its formation.

House Of The Dragon. Television Series Review. full post

(531 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Ghosts (US). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Rose McIver, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Brandon Scott Jones, Richie Moriarty, Danielle Pinnock, Asher Goodman, Rebecca Wisocky, Sheila Carrasco, Devan Chandler Long, Román Zaragosa, Tristan D. Lalla, John Hartman, Arthur Holden, Nigel Downer, Stuart Fink, Betsy Sodaro, Mark Linn-Baker, Kathryn Greenwood, Christian Daoust, Cody Crain, Cat Lemieux, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Odessa A’zion.

It is a curious proposition that any show, especially comedy, that is a big hit in Britain, can face a clamour of public calls for it to be remade for the American television market.

Ghosts (US). Television Review. full post

(684 words, estimated 2:44 mins reading time)