Category Archives: TV

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.

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.

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.

Not Going Out (Christmas Special 2021).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Lee Mack, Sally Breton, Deborah Grant, Geoffrey Whitehead, Hugh Dennis, Abigail Cruttenden, Jason Donovan, Rick Astley.

The trick is to so all you can to stay fresh whilst never betraying the core values of what made you popular in the first place; if you can master that then the world of entertainment and art is at your beckoned call.

Ghosts: Christmas Special. (2021). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Charlotte Ritchie, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Jim Howick, Martha Howe-Douglas, Matthew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Lolly Adefope, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willibond, Katy Wix, Jennifer Saunders, Justin Edwards, Keeran Blessie, Richard Dixon, Andrew Francis, Jeremy Limb, Marcus Onilude, Chrostopher Villiers.

The message of Christmas gets lost, swamped by the greed of consumerism, by the heady ringing of tills and the message from political elites that you may as well as celebrate now because come the New Year life is about to get real, is about to see you become nostalgic for the 24 hours you try to make perfect.

Hawkeye. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Jeremy Renner, Hailee Steinfeld, Vera Farmiga, Tony Dalton, Alaqua Cox, Fra Fee, Linda Cardellini, Florence Pugh, Vincent D’Onofrio, Aleks Paunovic, Piotr Adamczyk, Carlos Navarro, Cade Woodward, Ava Russo, Clayton English, Ben Sakamoto, Adetinpo Thomas, Robert Walker Branchaud, Ivan Mbakop, Adelle Drahos, Pat Kiernan, Brian d’Arcy James, Zahn McClarnon, Simon Callow, Darnell Besaw, Phoenix Crepin, Sissi Kal, Franco Castan, Clara Stack.

Ragdoll. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Thalissa Teixeira, Lucy Hale, Michael Smiley, Sam Troughton, Angus Wright, Samantha Spiro, Phil Davies, Natasha Little, Clive Mendus, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Perry Jaques, Amita Dhiri, Douggie McMeekin, James Barriscale, James Tarpey, Robin Weaver, Camilla Beeput, Tim McDonnell, Ava Masters, Oriana Charles, Cannon Hay, Eric Raymond Lim, Paul McEwan, Dave Hart, Peter Bottley.

The sense of the extraordinary comes from out of nowhere and hits you where you least expect it.

Vienna Blood: The Devil’s Kiss. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Matthew Beard, Jürgen Maurer, Astrit Alihaidaraj, Christoph Bittenauer, Heinz Arthur Boltuch, Amelia Bullmore, Haymon Maria Buttinger, Josef Ellers, Stipe Erceq, Larissa Fuchs, Lucy Griffiths, Simon Hatzl, Miriam Hie, Conleth Hill, Brigitte Karner, Charlene McKenna, Dajana Rajic, Robert Reinagl, Bernhard Schir, Florian Teichtmeister, Raphael von Bargen.

What We Do In The Shadows (Series Three). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demeetriou, Harvey Guillén, Mark Proksch, Kristen Schaal, Lauren Collins, Tyler Alvarez, Aida Turturro, Catherine Cohen, Scott Bakula, Cree Summer, Donal Logue, Khandi Alexander, David Cross.

In the world of the ‘Mockumentary’, What We Do In The Shadows stands out as one of the finest examples of the genre. Not only does it have characters that are unassumingly charismatic, who you genuinely find yourself caring for, but the fact that it is able to develop, that the progressive nature of the writing, the situation and the narrative is fluid enough to keep the viewer on their toes, marks it out as one of the great comedies of the day.

Vienna Blood: The Melancholy Countess. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Matthew Beard, Jürgen Maurer, Conleth Hill, Charlene McKenna, Amelia Bullmore, Michael Dangl, Josef Ellers, Till Firit, Aaron Friesz, Michou Friesz, Nikolai Gemel, Lucy Griffiths, Miriam Hie, Sunnyi Melles, Corinna Pumm, Krista Stadler, Felix Stichmann, Oliver Stokowski, Florian Teichmeister, Raphael von Bargen, Luise von Finckh.