Category Archives: TV

Obi-Wan Kenobi. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Ewan McGregor, Moses Ingram, Vivien Lyre Blair, Hayden Christensen, Rupert Friend, James Earl Jones, Kumail Nanjiani, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Indira Varma, Marisé Álvarez, Maya Erskine, Jimmy Smits, Grant Feely, Flea, Joel Edgerton, Bonnie Piesse, Simone Kessell, Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels, Liam Neeson.

Ewan McGregor’s time as Obi-Wan Kenobi always seemed short and one that arguably carried, alongside Ian McDiarmid as Emperor Palpatine, the prequel trio of films that framed the Star Wars franchise to a place where the maligned nature and often heavy-handed criticism is thankfully overlooked.

Obi-Wan Kenobi. Television Series Review. full post

(466 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

The Time Traveler’s Wife. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Rose Leslie, Theo James, Everleigh McDonell, Gui Agustini, Natasha Lopez, Jaime Ray Newman, Michael Park, Caitlin Shorey, Desmin Borges, Marcia DeBonis, Peter Graham, Kate Siegel, Josh Stamberg, Jason David, Brian Altemus, Shawna Hamic, Spencer House, Taylor Richardson, Finn Brown, Carol Mazhuvancheril, Chelsea Frei.

From The Time Machine to Doctor Who, Time travel has intrigued us, thrilled us, and at times left us breathless with excitement and rigid with fear for generations. From book to audio dramas, from theatre to cinema, and across every language possible, the interest in the ability to travel through Time and perhaps put right the wrongs of our generation, is a palpable conceit that is embraced by all despite knowing it is a physical impossibility.

The Time Traveler’s Wife. Television Series Review. full post

(541 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Macdonald & Dodds: Belvedere. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jason Watkins, Tala Gouveia, Jack Riddiford, Claire Skinner, Lily Sacofsky, Danyal Ismail, Sian Phillips, Alan Davies, Catherine Tyldesley, Holly Aird, Gabriel Bisset Smith, Charlie Chambers.

The locked room mysteries have not quite had their day, but they certainly have exhausted the imagination of many a writer; so much so that it will take a phenomenal tale worthy of being presented by a supreme great to revive significant interest in the genre once again.

Macdonald & Dodds: Belvedere. Television Review. full post

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

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.

The Outlaws (Series Two). Television Review. full post

(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)