Category Archives: TV

Grace: Dead Tomorrow. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Simm, Rakie Ayola, Brad Morrison, Laura Elphinstone, Craig Parkinson, Zoë Tapper, Clare Calbraith, Seham Aar, Shamail Ali, Faith Alabi, Ellis George, Daniel Adegboyega, Richie Campbell, Lucy Phelps, Lu Corfield, Alec Newman, Joséphine de La Baume, Amina Koroma, Jayne McKenna, Antony Byrne, Carolina Valdés, Stephen Boxer, Rebecca Scroggs, Ernest Kingsley Junior.

The harvesting of human organs for profit is an abhorrence, to kill for the body piece is to desecrate the bond that civility and humanity insists upon.

Grace: Dead Tomorrow. Television Review. full post

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

Suspect. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: James Nesbitt, Imogen King, Sacha Dhawan, Sam Heughan, Antonia Thomas, Richard E. Grant, Joely Richardson, Niamh Algar, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Miller, Tabitha Green, Adam Kiani, Adele Marie, Alexander F. James.

Originality is a scarce commodity, and even then, the chances are it has been done before, but that doesn’t stop the belief that what you are witnessing is a novel approach to an age-old problem, that of how to entertain, educate, and inform, whilst keeping the attention of the one who has invested their time in your product, in your story.

Suspect. Television Review. full post

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

Grace: Looking Dead Good. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: John Simm, Amit Shah, Christina Chong, Craig Parkinson, James Tarpey, Kristy Philipps, Richie Campbell, Michael D. Xavier, Mitchell Hunt, Alex Price, Cassie Clare, Rakie Ayola, Owen Roberts, Sidney Kean, Sally Edwards, Laura Elphinstone, William Andrews, Brad Morrison, Henry Miller, Callum Coates, Steven Elder, Darren Tighe, Matt Barkley, Boo Golding, Lauren O’Neil, Nicholas Khan, Adrian Rawlings, Louis Boyer, Austin Hardiman, Robyn Ashwood, Katie Brayben, James Barriscale.

Grace: Looking Dead Good. Television Review. full post

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

Grace: Dead Man’s Footsteps. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Simm, Craig Parkinson, James D’Arcy, Zoë Tapper, Richie Campbell, Laura Elphinstone, Brad Morrison, Rakie Ayola, Dave Lynn, Katie Clarkson-Hill, Caolina Valdés, Margot Leicester, Michael Bertenshaw, Jake Fairbrother, Alexander Cobb, Clare Calbraith, Steven Hartley, Elizabeth Rider, Brian Pettifer, Amy Conachan, Nick Warnford.

Grace: Dead Man’s Footsteps. Television Review. full post

(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

The Midwich Cuckoos: Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Keeley Hawes, Max Beesley, Aisling Loftus, Ukweli Roach, Lara Rossi, Synnove Karlsen, Hannah Tointon, Rebekah Staton, Mark Dexter, Marianne Oldham, Lewis Reeves, India Amarteifio, Cherrelle Skeete, Amy Cuddon, Samuel West, Dexter Sol Ansell, Laura Doddington, Georgia Thorne, Jade Harrison, Scarlett Leigh, Erin Ainsworth, Billie Gadsdon, Evan Scott, Kaylen Luke, Natalia Harris, Aditi Pothuganti.

The world created by John Wyndham deserves the praise he achieved in his lifetime, and the respect he has posthumously garnered and maintained in the decades since his passing in 1969.

The Midwich Cuckoos: Television Drama Review. full post

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

Ms. Marvel. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Iman Vellani, Matt Lintz, Zenobia Shroff, Yasmeen Fletcher, Rish Shah, Nimra Bucha, Samina Ahmed, Mohan Kapur, Aylsia Reiner, Anjali Bhimani, Saagar Shaikh, Adaku Ononogbo, Aramis Knight, Mehwish Hayat, Laural Marsden, Azhar Usman, Farhan Akhtar, Fawad Khan, Arian Moayed, Laith Nakli, Travina Springer, Vardah Aziz, Ali Alsaleh, Jordan Firstman, Asfandyer Khan, Dan Carter, Zion Usman, Connor Jones, Brie Larson. 

Ms. Marvel. Television Series Review. full post

(567 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

McDonald & Dodds: Clouds Across The Moon. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tala Gouveia, Jason Watkins, Max Bennett, Gerran Howell, Charlie Chambers, Liv Sacofsky, Danyal Ismail, Pearce Quigley, Claire Skinner, Joanna Riding, Joan Iyiola, Stefan Adegbola, Grace Francis.

There is a subsection of the police procedural crime fiction that the armchair detective will rave about, as if solving a murder wasn’t good enough for them, that they can battle their own wits against the investigator in charge, it is when the villain is so conniving, so  devious in their passion to prove they are just as clever as the one chasing them, if not more so, the complications presented to the viewer are boundless and enthralling to decipher.

McDonald & Dodds: Clouds Across The Moon. Television Review. full post

(418 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

The Flight Attendant: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Kaley Cuoco, Zosia Mamet, Griffin Matthews, Rosie Perez, Audrey Grace Marshall, Mae Martin, Santiago Cabrera, Sharon Stone, Deniz Akdeniz, T.R. Knight, Michelle Gomez, Colin Woodell, Mo McRae, Callie Hernandez, Joseph Julian Soria, Yasha Jackson, David Iacono, Jessie Ennis, Erik Passoja, Shohreh Aghdashloo, James Seol, Bruce Baek, Briana Cuoco, William DeMerritt, Mary Ann Welshans, Cheryl Hines, Alanna Ubach.

The Flight Attendant: Series Two. Television Review. full post

(507 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

McDonald & Dodds: War Of The Rose. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tala Gouveia, Jason Watkins, Claire Skinner, Jack Riddiford, Lily Sacofsky, Saira Choudhry, Rosie Day, Nitin Ganatra, Nicholas Goh, Siobhan Hewlett, Sarah Parish, Rhashan Stone, Andrew Greenough, Mark Meadows, Emily Joyce, Richard Dixon, Leah Balmforth, Flora London, Romani Wright, Bex Hainsworth.

It’s not what you know, it’s who you can reach…the modern mantra of the social influencer is such that it pervades into our everyday lives, and it divides opinion as easily as it spreads its word and sales pitch on the internet.

McDonald & Dodds: War Of The Rose. Television Review. full post

(532 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

McDonald & Dodds: A Billion Beats. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jason Watkins, Tala Gouveia, Jack Riddiford, Claire Skinner, Lily Sacofsky, Danyal Ismail, Paul McGann, Ben Batt, Daisy Bevan, Kelvin Fletcher, Paul Forman, Naoki Mori, John Omole, Bluey Robinson, Bill Skinner, Bridgitta Roy, Nino Furuhata, Louise Jameson.

There are sports that seem universally embraced and then there are those that to a proportion of the population is not for them, that is not only fuelled by a passion that defies logic, but can seem reckless, spoiled by money, out of the realms to ordinary men and women, and in the case of motor racing, is all about the one second glimpse of the vehicle, a second in which A Billion Beats of the heart can seem to be over in a flash.

McDonald & Dodds: A Billion Beats. Television Review. full post

(490 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)