Category Archives: TV

Code 404: Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Stephen Graham, Daniel Mays, Rosie Cavaliero, Anna Maxwell Martin, Amanda Payton, Michelle Greenidge, Richard Gadd, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Michael Armstrong, Vinette Robinson, Louise Stewart, Bleu Landau, James Grogan, John Cummins, Alan Mooney, Sasha Behar, Hannah Bourne, Idris Balogun.

One way to ensure that the dystopian future of policing never happens is to ensure we find ways to ridicule it, that we mock it with intelligence, that we pour scorn on every circuit, and ask the those with the means to sow the seeds of derision, the artists with keen eye and sharp observation skills, to portray the need for AI in certain walks of responsible life to be curtailed.

Code 404: Series Three. Television Review. full post

(474 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Westworld. Series Four. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Aaron Paul, Angela Sarafyan, Ed Harris, James Marsden, Luke Hemsworth, Ariana DeBose, Aurora Perrineau, Celeste Clark, Manny Montana, Michael Malarkey, Daniel Wu, Morningstar Angelina, Rodrigo Santoro, Fredric Lehne, Arturo Del Puerto, Alex Fernandez, Aaron Stanford, Brandon Sklenar, Jasmyn Rae, Jack Coleman, Saffron Burrows, José Zúñiga, Liza Weil, Lili Simmons, Zahn McClarnon, Cherise Boothe, Nico Galán, Hannah James, Paul-Mikél, Emily Somers, Nicole Pacent, Evan Williams, Alec Wang.

Westworld. Series Four. Television Review. full post

(520 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Van Der Valk: Blood In Amsterdam. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Marc Warren, Maimie McCoy, Luke Allen-Gale, Eliot Barnes-Worrell, Darrell D’Silva, Emma Fielding, Robert Boulter, Julia Akkermans, Selin Akkulak, Anil Aras, Paul Bentall, Peter Bolhuis, Thomas Cammaert, Alkan Çöklü, Anita Franklin, Loes Haverkort, Peter van Heeringen, Thom Hoffman, Mike Libanon, Simon Manyonda, Maria Marbus, Hadewych Minis, Liz Snoyink, Leo Staar.

Van Der Valk: Blood In Amsterdam. Television Review. full post

(471 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kate Phillips, Stuart Martin, Cathy Belton, Ansu Kabia, Ian Pirie, Evan McCabe, Tim Chipping, Laura Rollins, Aiden McArdle, Michael Simkins, Jessie Cave, Dominic Mafham, Emma Campbell-Jones, Tristan Sturrock, Elizabeth Bower, Jason Thorpe, David Bark-Jones, Dan Cede, Katie Brayben, Rosemary Boyle, Phill Langhorne, Richard James, Milan Nikitovic.

Miss Scarlet And The Duke. Series Two. Television Review. full post

(621 words, estimated 2:29 mins reading time)

The Newsreader. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Anna Torv, Sam Reid, William McInnes, Michelle Lim Davidson, Chum Ehelepola, Chai Hansen, Marg Downey, Stephen Peacocke, Robert Taylor, Caroline Lee, Maude Davey, Bert LeBonté, Jackson Tozer, Maria Angelico, John Leary, Peter Houghton, Dom Phelan, Tony Rickards, Robert Grubb, Edwina Wren, Rhys Mitchell, Tim Draxl Cullen Gorman, Hany Lee, Meewon Yang, Rohan Mirchandaney, Melissa Jaffer, Anne Charleston, Alexandra Schepisi, Stephen Lopez, Peter Paltos, David Woods, Alex Duncan, David Whiteley, Blair Venn, Keith Brockett, Natalia Novikova.

The Newsreader. Television Review. full post

(785 words, estimated 3:08 mins reading time)

Van Der Valk: Plague On Amsterdam. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Marc Warren, Maimie McCoy, Luke Allen-Gale, Elliot Barnes-Worrell, Darrell D’Silva, Emma Fielding, Robert Boulter, Beatie Edney, Joseph Millson, Bobbi Blijleven, Ruben Brinkman, Deirde Duisterhof, Loes Haverkort, Peter van Heeringen, Marcel Hensema, Mike Libanon, Saskia Neville, Mark Rietman, Anastasia Reshetnikova, Anneke Sluiters, Lilana de Vries, Daria Zueva.

Van Der Valk: Plague On Amsterdam. Television Review. full post

(526 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

The Undeclared War. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Simon Pegg, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Edward Holcroft, Hanna Khalique-Brown, Adrian Lester, Tom McKay, Joss Porter, Charlie J. Tinson, Mark Rylance, Alex Jennings, German Segal, Hattie Morahan, Tinatin Dalakishvili, Andrew Rothery, Jamie Muscato, Gavi Singh Chera, Alfie Friedman, Irena Tyshyna, Ed Stoppard, Kerry Godliman, Aysha Kala, Julie Barclay, Yasmin Wilde, Daniel O’Meara, Bharti Patel, Nikita Zabolotny, Julian Harries, Sean La-Tunje, Melanie Gutteridge, Nitin Ganatra.

The Undeclared War. Television Review. full post

(687 words, estimated 2:45 mins reading time)

The Lazarus Project. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Paapa Essiedu, Anjli Mohindra, Rudi Dharmalingam, Caroline Quentin, Tom Burke, Salóme Gunnarsdóttir, Lorn Macdonald, Charly Clive, Lukas Loughran, Vinette Robinson, Tommy Letts, Enyi Okoronkwo, Alec Utgoff, Martin Razpopov, Brian Gleeson, Chris Fulton, Michael Matus, Sarah Edwardson, Bradley John, Felix Hayes, Nina Singh, Kate Alderton, Marilyn Nnadebe, Olivia Nita, Thomas Flynn, Adam Best, Taz Skylar.

Time travel never leaves the user unscarred, even in the least convincing of films and television series, it is a given that consequences are unavoidable even for the hardiest of souls, that Time is often a bitter and twisted entity that thrives on chaos, confusion, and humanity’s folly in believing that even the smallest interaction will leave them unscathed.

The Lazarus Project. Television Review. full post

(469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Sherwood. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: David Morrisey, Robert Glenister, Lesley Manville, Clair Rushbrook, Joanne Froggatt, Alun Armstrong, Adeel Akhtar, Adam Hugill, Terence Maynard, Andrea Lowe, Lorraine Ashbourne, Clare Holman, Perry Fitzpatrick, Kevin Doyle, Philip Jackson, Stephen Tompkinson, Lindsay Duncan, Bally Gill, Harpel Hayer, Safia Oakley-Green, Chloe Harris, George Howard, Tom Glenister, Bill Jones, Hazel Ellerby, Nadine Marshall, Phaldut Sharma, Leah Walker, Sean Gilder, Charles Dale, Lance O’Reilly-Chapman, Mark Addy, Mark Frost, Pip Torrens, Poppy Gilbert, Jonathan Readwin, Don Gilet, René Zagger, Kwarme Bentil, Kelly Harrison, Neil Ashton, Christopher Fairbank, Sunetra Sarker.

Sherwood. Television Series Review. full post

(709 words, estimated 2:50 mins reading time)

Murder In Provence. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Roger Allam, Nancy Carroll, Keala Settle, Patricia Hodge, Kirsty Bushell, Geff Francis, Samuel Barnett, Ashley Russell, Janet Amsden, Jonathan Aris, Christophe R. Tek, Jeremy Clyde, Damola Adelaja, Scott Chambers, Paul Bazely, Holi Dempsey, Benedict Clarke, Alex Felton, Cara Horgan, Shadrach Agozino, Yasmin Taheri, Crispin Redman, Jasmine Hyde, Robbie Gee, Thomas Vernal, Sara Powell, Leila Mimmack, Flora Montgomery, Melanie Gutteridge, Nico Rao Pimparé, John Light, Richard Sargent, Ben Jones, Mark Adams, Louise Delamere, Lizzy McInnerny, Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Max Gold, Liran Nathan, Rachel Mariam, Asheq Akhtar.

Murder In Provence. Television Series Review. full post

(498 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)