Category Archives: TV

The Outlaws (Series Two). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Rhianne Barreto, Darren Boyd, Gamba Cole, Charles Babalola, Jessica Gunning, Stephen Merchant, Clare Perkins, Eleanor Tomlinson, Christopher Walken, Grace Calder, Aiyana Goodfellow, Dolly Wells, Kojo Kamara, Tom Hanson, Ian McElhinney, Nina Wadia, Guillermo Bedward, Isla Gie, Gyuri Sarossy, Marcus Fraser, Lois Chimimba, Amanda Drew, Claes Bang, Joseph Passafaro, Chicho Tche, Jessica Boyde, Rufus Wright, Chloe Partridge, Rosa Robson, Julia Davis, Verity Blyth, Jonny Weldon, Gabrielle Sheppard.

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(487 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

The Staircase. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Michael Stuhlbarg, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sophie Turner, Dane DeHaan, Vincent Vermignon, Juliette Binoche, Tim Guinee, Parker Posey, Justice Leak, Olivia DeJonge, Rosemarie DeWitt, Robert Clayton, Cory Scott Allen, Hannah Pniewski, Myke Holmes, Kevin Sizemore, Ryan Lewis, Maria Dizzia, Susan Pourfar, Frank Feys, Trini Alvarado, Andre Martin, Cullen Moss, Daniela Lee.

Murder divides opinion, of that there is no doubt, especially when the deceit of ambiguity takes its place on the stage and forensic science can be seen to have faltered, questioned, shown to be in the hands of those whose very judgement can be found wanting as their own agenda dirties the water of the truth beyond recognition.

The Staircase. Television Review. full post

(690 words, estimated 2:46 mins reading time)

Pistol. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Toby Wallace, Anson Boon, Sydney Chandler, Jacob Slater, Talulah Riley, Maisie Williams, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Louis Partridge, Francesca Mills, Christian Lees, Ferdo Walsh-Peelo, Lorne MacFadyen, Toby Woolf, Rory Alexander, Jay Simpson, Beth Dillon, Emma Appleton.

Never mind the Big Bang, for many the social upheaval and the meeting of a few bored young men, two special women, and one radical entrepreneur, set alight, and arguably changed the world, in a way that made the Big Bang seem quite dull in comparison.

Pistol. Television Series Review. full post

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

Inside No.9: A Random Act Of Kindness. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jessica Hynes, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Noah Valentine.

Kindness is its own reward, but it rarely comes out of a place of virtue, of absolute benevolence to humanity, it always comes with a catch, even it is unthought at the time, it is an action that comes with a price heavily attached with that reward, and one that at any time can be cashed in and exacted as payment.

Inside No.9: A Random Act Of Kindness. Television Review. full post

(386 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Raised By Wolves: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vison Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Amanda Collin, Abubaker Salim, Winta McGrath, Travis Fimmel, Niamh Algar, Jordan Loughran, Felix Jamieson, Ethan Hazzard, Aasiya Shah, Ivy Wong, Matias Varela, Loulou Taylor, Susan Danford, Litha Bam, Shoko Yoshimura, Jenna Upton, Daniel Lasker, Garth Breytenbach, Clayton Evertson, Morgan Santo, Peter Christoffersen, Carel Nel, Selina Jones, James Harkness, Kim Engelbrecht.

Raised By Wolves: Series Two. Television Review. full post

(486 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Lucy Worsley Investigates: The Witch Hunts. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The past is not only a foreign country, it is a circus that cannot be easily explained, in which the ringmasters were all of a certain class and nobody else could perform without their express permission, and even then you could not hope to be enlightened because the language used to convey each act was written so that only certain public figures had the means to understand it; and even then they could alter the meaning quickly if it meant keeping what they considered to be the clowns, the lower order, down.

Lucy Worsley Investigates: The Witch Hunts. Television Review. full post

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

Inside No. 9: Kid/Nap. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Danny Mays, Daisy Haggard, Jason Isaacs.

A resounding fear that we push away is that somewhere, somehow, someone values us in a way that is not safe, that is harmful, a momentary possession that is against our will, and which goes further than most crimes, because of the perceived monetary worth and lack of respect that comes with the sovereignty of the body, and one that could in all concerns descend rapidly into torture, rape, and even death.

Inside No. 9: Kid/Nap. Television Review. full post

(410 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

The War Doctor Begins: Battlegrounds. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jonathon Carley, Troy Alexander, Adèle Anderson, Rose Basista, Ken Bones, Nicholas Briggs, Emma Campbell-Jones, Julian Forsyth, Sarah Moss, Hugh Ross, Homer Todiwala, David Warwick.

We look at war as either the outcome, or we pick and choose the moments that we believe are the key points of significance, of the importance of scale in determining the battlegrounds that held the key to victory, or to the bitterness of defeat.

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

Peacemaker. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Cena, Danielle Brooks, Freddie Stroma, Chukwudi Iwuji, Jennifer Holland, Steve Agee, Robert Patrick, Annie Chang, Lochlyn Munro, Dee Bradley Baker, Elizabeth Faith Ludlow, Rochelle Greenwood, Zak Santiago, Nhut Le, Christopher Heyerdahl, Viola Davis, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller.

Despite the often-overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Marvel does not have it all their own way when it comes to producing films and television fantasy and superhero comic book serials that capture the imagination of the viewers, even in a world where they have become the dominant force, they are arguably pushed by the appearance of the unexpected, the one series that rivals all of theirs; and in the case of Peacemaker, it is one that is absolutely and adorably near perfect.

Peacemaker. Television Series Review. full post

(483 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Inside No. 9: Nine Lives Kat. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Sophie Okonedo, Robin Weaver, Siobhan Redmond, Coco-Lili Hoder.

The space between the writer and their creation is one so small that they can often overlap, they become one and the same, the observation of one enhances the act of the other, and in this merging of souls the space narrows to the most infinite of spaces possible.

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(484 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)