Category Archives: TV

Killing Eve. Series Four. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jodie Comer, Sandra Oh, Fiona Shaw, Kim Bodnia, Edward Bluemel, Camille Cottin, Robert Gilbert, Anjana Vasan, Adeel Akhta, Imogen Daines, Steve Oram.

All good things must end, and all celebrity obsessed, all public fascinations must finally be allowed to go out in a blaze of glory.

There have been few series that have caught the public’s imagination as much as Killing Eve, and perhaps even less that when it comes right down it, when it is actually scrutinised and boiled down to its component parts, is willing to take the audience on a trip that appeals to base function and highbrow voyeurism in a tale that is seems complicated but is actually a wonderful, well-planned tease.

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(496 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

The Ipcress File. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Joe Cole, Lucy Boynton, Tom Hollander, Ashley Thomas, Paul Higgins, David Dencik, Joshua James, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Anastasia Hille, Brian Ferguson, Matthew Steer, Nora-Jane Noone, Corey Johnson, Ifran Shamji, Anna Geislerová, Paul Bazely, Marko Braic, Tamla Kari, Mark Quartley, Alexandria Moen, Ben Turner, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Anna Schumacher, Gaby French, Shireen Farkhoy, Nigel Hastings, Therese Bradley, Claire Cox, Chris Lew Kum Hoi.

The Ipcress File. Television Review. full post

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

Lois And Superman: Series One. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Elizabeth Tulloch, Tyler Hoechlin, Jordan Elsass, Alex Garfin, Erik Valdez, Inde Navarrette, Wolé Parks, Dylan Walsh, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Sofia Hasmik, Adam Rayner, Daisy Tormé, Zane Clifford, Joselyn Picard, Stacey Farber, Taylor Buck, Fritzy-Klevans Destine, Austin Anozie, Danny Wattley, Wern Lee, Eric Keenleyside, Pavel Romano, Leeah Wong, Monique Phillips, Dee Jay Jackson, Shawn Stewart, Kelcey Mawema, Ian Bohen, Samantha Di Francesco, Angus Macfadyen, Rya Kihlstedt, A.C. Peterson, Kayla Heller, Victoria Katongo, Ben Cockell, Jill Teed, Mariana Klaveno, Hesham Hammoud, Kennedy Chew, Miguel Castillo, Michele Scarabelli.

Lois And Superman: Series One. Television Review. full post

(665 words, estimated 2:40 mins reading time)

Clarice. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Rebecca Brands, Michael Culditz, Lucca De Oliveira, Nick Sandow, Devyn A. Tyler, Kal Penn, Jayne Atkinson, Maya McNair, Marnee Carpenter, Raoul Bhaneja, Derek Moran, Caitlin Robson, Douglas Smith, David Hewlett, K.C. Collins, Brian Bisson, Grace Lynn Kung, Caitlin Stryker, Simon Northwood, Will Conlon, Jen Richards.

The story is never complete.

What was once considered enough to wet the lips and stoke the appetite of the film lover and television watcher, has in recent years become a slot filler. The story has taken on a different direction with television leading the way, expanding a universe that perhaps had enough tension and pace in them to not require another tale being weaved into the original text.

Clarice. Television Review. full post

(678 words, estimated 2:43 mins reading time)

The Witchfinder. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Tim Key, Daisy May Cooper, Jessica Hynes, Daniel Rigby, Tuwaine Barrett, Michael Culkin, Dan Renton Skinner, Rosie Cavaliero, Dan Mersh, Vincent Franklin, Joplin Sibtain, Sharlene Whyte, Karl Theobald, Katy Wix, Julian Barratt, Reece Shearsmith, Justin Edwards, Ricky Tomlinson, Cariad Lloyd, Angus Wright.

If comedy is subjective and can rise and fall with whatever the fashion of the day dictates then at some point, we must expect almost every historical scenario to be discussed as potential for a sitcom, or at the least as backdrop and discussion in which to drive the genre forwards.

The Witchfinder. Television Review. full post

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

Pam And Tommy. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Lily James. Sebastian Stan, Seth Rogan, Nick Offerman, Pepi Sonuga, Taylor Schilling, Fred Hechinger, Paul Ben-Victor, Mozhan Marnò, Adam Ray, Iker Amaya, Chris Mann, Andrew Dice Clay, Paul Guzman, Don Harvey, Larry Brown, Mike Seely.

There is no greater story of fiction than that which is housed in fact.

Pam And Tommy. Television Review. full post

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

A Discovery Of Witches. Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode, Alex Kingston, Gregg Chilingirian, Trevor Eve, Owen Teale, Malin Buska, Edward Blumel, Aiysha Hart, Valarie Pettiford, Lindsay Duncan, Aisling Loftus, Tanya Moodie, Adelle Leonce, Sorcha Cusack, Steven Cree, Daniel Ezra, Jacob Ifan, Greg McHugh.

A trilogy is only as good as its final part. If you can stomach that declaration then understanding is part of your deal, for a trilogy means nothing if the ending is unbelievable, if it goes against everything that has been set up in good faith before, then the whole structure falls apart, it becomes worthless, the one willing to sit through an entire season, take pleasure in the excitement of the ending, might arguably feel cheated, will feel the waves of cynical impression forced upon their time.

A Discovery Of Witches. Series Three. Television Review. full post

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

Screw. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Nina Sosanya, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Laura Checkley, Faraz Ayub, Stephen Wright, Ron Donachie, Jake Davies, Ben Tavassoli, Nicholas Lumley, Jordan Myrie, Chicho Tche, James Foster, Karen Gill, Bill Blackwood, Mark Newsome, Jack Bardoe, Nathan Vaughn Harris, Riley Carter Millington, Marianne McIvor, Mark Arden, Lawrence Walker, Matthew Stirling, Simon Donaldson, Alistair Lock, Yusef Chaudhri, Jaden Baker, Denzil Baidoo, Stephen Clyde, Jordan Howat, Sagar Arya, Christopher Fulford.

Screw. Television Review. full post

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

The Book Of Boba Fett. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Temeura Morrison, Ming-Na Wen, Pedro Pascal, Matt Berry, David Pasquesi, Carey Jones, Jennifer Beals, Sophie Thatcher, Jordan Bolger, Robert Rodriguez, Joanna Bennett, Barry Lowin, Frank Trigg, Collin Hayes, Timothy Olyphant, Danny Trejo, Rosario Dawson.

The Western genre doesn’t die, it just finds new ways to menace the airwaves and pump new belief into what was a form of storytelling that had its supposed day by the time that science fiction became big business.

The Book Of Boba Fett. Television Review. full post

(609 words, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

The Responder. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Martin Freeman, MyAnna Buring, Adelayo Adedayo, Romi Hyland-Rylands, Mark Womack, Josh Finan, Emily Fairn, Philip Shaun McGuinness, Warren Brown, Ian Hart, Faye McKeever, Philip Barantini, Elizabeth Berrington, Christine Tremarco, David Loy, Rob Pomfret, Jude Cooper-Kelly, Kerrie Hayes, Dave Hart, Lois Cringle, James Nelson-Joyce, David Bradley, Karl Collins, Philip Whitchurch, Amaka Okafor, Marji Campi, Rita Tushingham, Maud Druine, Michael Starke, Jake Abraham, Paul Campion, Christian Waite, Victor McGuire, Kieran Urquhart, Sylvie Gatrill, Matthew Cottle, Dave Hill, Roy Brandon, Harry Burke, Pat Winker.

The Responder. Television Review. full post

(764 words, estimated 3:03 mins reading time)