Category Archives: TV

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.

Departure: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Archie Panjabi, Kris Holden-Reid, Karen LeBlanc, Mark Rendall, Christopher Plummer, David Hewlett, Dion Johnstone, Kelly McCormack, Etienne Kellici, Charlie Carrick, Wendy Crewson, Donal Logue, Jason O’Mara, Greg Bryk, Jennifer Podemski, Cara Ricketts, Diana Bentley, Florence Ordesh, Danny Waugh, Lindsey Connell.

Accidents happen, it is inevitable as a good man making a poor choice that leads to his ruin, and yet some accidents are merely the underplaying of planned catastrophe, the chance taken by one person or a group of like-minded individuals to further their cause but presenting it as a freak mishap, a calamity of coincidence that just happens to change the world, or at least the locality in which it took part, forever.

Doctor Who: Flux. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, John Bishop, Barbara Flynn, Jo Martin, Kevin McNally, Craige Els, Steve Oram, Nadine Albina, Sam Spruell, Sarah Powell, Jemma Redgrave, Craig Parkinson, Rochenda Sandall, Jacob Anderson, Annabel Scholey, Blake Harrison, Dan Starkey, Robert Bathurst, Jonathan Watson, Barbara Fadden, Paul Broughton, Gerald Kyd, Sue Jenkins, Nicholas Briggs, Bhavnisha Parmar, Alex Frost, Vincent Brimble, Jemma Churchill, Penelope McGhie, Nicholas Blane, George Caple.

Supergirl: Series Six. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Melissa Benoist, Chyler Leigh, Katie McGrath, Jesse Rath, Nicole Maines, Azie Tesfai, Julie Gonzalo, Staz Nair, Peta Sergeant, David Harwood, Jon Cryer, Brenda Strong, Sharon Leal, Claude Knowlton, Jason Behr, Matt Baram, Jhaleil Swaby, Mila Jones, Calista Flockhart, Mechad Brooks, Jeremy Jordan, Chris Wood, Helen Slater.

There are finales that leave you breathless, there are finales that make you question your beliefs, and there are endings in which the length of time invested in a particular television series leaves you understandably devastated by its removal from your timetable and television schedule that it can hit you like a bereavement, not of the physical, but of the declared love you have shown it.