Category Archives: TV

Toast Of Tinseltown. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Matt Berry, Doon Mackichan, Fred Armisen, Tim Downie, Shazad Latif, Cecilia Appiah, Robert Bathurst, Rashida Jones, Isaura Barbé-Brown, Larry David, Natasia Demetriou, Kayvan Novak, Adrian Lukas, Harry Peacock, Aiden Turner, Colin McFarlane, Morgana Robinson, Benedict Wong, Tracey Ann Oberman, Freddie Annobil-Dodoo, Nigel Betts, Jaime Barbakoff, Guy Coombes, Gina Bellman, Freddie Fox, Neil Hudson, Jennifer Armour, Bill Hader, Greg Canestrari, Caroline Hacker, Flaminia Cinque, Mara Huff, Hanako Footman, Stuart Milligan, Belinda Stewart-Wilson, Paul Rudd.

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(682 words, estimated 2:44 mins reading time)

American Rust. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jeff Daniels, Maura Tierney, David Alvarez, Bill Camp, Julia Mayorga, Alex Neustaedter, Mark Pellegrino, Rob Yang, Williams Apps, Emily Davis, Dallas Roberts, Namir Smallwood, Zenzi Williams, Jim True-Frost, Jon Collin Barclay, Caitlin Houlahan, Gordon Clapp, Clea Lewis, Federico Rodriguez, Bill Laing, Guy Boyd, Nicole Chanel Williams, Brittany Bellizeare, Emily Donahoe, Joanne Tucker, Riley Baron, Caitlin Cavannaugh, Jeremy Denzlinger, Brendan Burke, Rick Dutrow.

The United States of America was built on foundations that are arguably now struggling to hold up the overburdened and often shoddy structures that have come to dominate its landscape.

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(580 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Eve Of The Daleks. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, John Bishop, Aisling Bea, Adjani Salmon, Pauline McLynn, Nicholas Briggs, Jonny Dixon, Barnaby Edwards, Nicholas Pegg, Jon Davey.

A plan conceived when the clock is against you is one that will arguably make the old heart beat that little bit faster, and therefore be more memorable, than anything that is carefully and meticulously drawn up over the space of weeks, maybe months, and even years.

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(598 words, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)

Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Ashley Zukerman, Eddie Izzard, Valorie Curry, Beau Knapp, Sumalee Montano, Rick Gonzalez, Sammi Rotibi, Greg Bryk, Raoul Bhaneia, Laura de Cartret, Keenan Jolliff, Tyrone Benskin, Mark Gibbon, Steve Cumyn, Dalal Badr, Batz Recinos, Gage Graham-Arbutnot, Ben Carlson, Tamara Duarte, Emily Piggford, Michael Blake, Gia Sandhu.

Any form of art requires faith, from the person painstakingly producing the scene to which others are meant to be inspired, to the audience, singular or large scale, who are the hopeful beneficiaries of the human endeavour, who hope to be blessed by its appearance, by its magnificence.



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

A Discovery Of Witches (Series One). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode, Edward Bluemel, Owen Teale, Louise Brealey, Malin Buska, Aiysha Hart, Alex Kingston, Lindsay Duncan, Valarie Pettiford, Trevor Eve, Greg McHugh, Tanya Moodie, Damiel Ezra, Elarica Johnson, Trystan Gravelle, Adetomiwa Edun, Sophia Myles, David Newman, Sorcha Cusack, Chloe Dumas, Gregg Chillin.

“Those who don’t believe in magic, are doomed never to find it”.

A Discovery Of Witches (Series One). Television Review. full post

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

Landscapers. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Olivia Colman, David Thewlis, Kate O’ Flynn, Dipo Ola, Samuel Anderson, Felicity Montagu, David Hayman, Maanuv Thiara, Daniel Rigby, Connie Kiss Mee, Nimisha Odedra, Hayley Carmichael, Lolly Jones, Souad Faress, Tina Harris, Jay Phelps, Garry Cooper, Aaron Neil, Bruce Lester-Johnson, Ali Azhar, Craig Blake, Joanna Burnett, Jason Williamson, John Mackay.

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(637 words, estimated 2:33 mins reading time)

A Very British Scandal. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Claire Foy, Paul Bettany, Olwen May, Albertine Kotting McMillan, Julia Davis, Richard McCabe, Amanda Drew, Phoebe Nicholls, David Monteath, Mitchell Robertson, Sophia Myles, Don Gallagher, Camilla Rutherford, Sophie Ward, Daniel Burt, Miles Jupp, Timothy Renouf, Katherine Manners, Tim Steed, Nicholas Rowe, Oliver Chris, David Hargreaves, Jonathan Aris, Matt Ripley, Daniel Fearn, Freddie Lund, Alex Skarbek, Phoebe Farnham, Simon Thorp, Matthew Stagg, Lawrence Oswald.

A Very British Scandal. Television Review. full post

(516 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Vienna Blood: Darkness Rising. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Matthew Beard, Jürgen Maurer, Alexander Absenger, Amelia Bullmore, Josef Ellers, Serge Falck, May Garzon, Lucy Griffiths, Miriam Hie, Conleth Hill, Nicolas Matthews, Charlene McKenna, David Oberkogler, Loenhard Srajer, Erwin Steinhauer, Florian Stetter, Florian Teichmeister, Raphael von Bergen, Luise von Finckh, Johannes Zeiler.

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

Death In Paradise. Christmas Special. (2021)

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ralf Little, Don Warrington, Tajh Miles, Elizabeth Bourgine, Danny John-Jules, Josephine Jobert, Matthew Baynton, Tessa Bonham Jones, Anthony Calf, Jocelyn Jee Esien, Tariq Jordan, Elizabeth Tan, Stanley Townsend, Juliet Stevenson, Sara Cox.

You can only be someone else for so long before your old life comes back to haunt you and the person from whose life you lead wants it all back.

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

The Mezzotint. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Rory Kinnear, Frances Barber, Robert Bathurst, John Hopkins, Nikesh Patel, Emma Cunliffe, Tommaso Di Vincenzo.

It is the embracement of life, of being thankful for what you have, and not the chance to add want to the overburdened and groaning table or under pressure waiter serving you another daily dose of charm, reality, and thought, that makes Christmas special, for in reality we see the shadows that skulk at the door, we feel the draft at our feet whilst the heart is cosy, and in that heartbeat that makes us inhale deeply, that causes a string of sweat to form on the brow, we find the night before the ‘big day’ the true meaning of being alive.

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(589 words, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)