Category Archives: TV

Midsomer Murders: The Sting Of Death. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Griff Rhys Jones, Imogen Stubbs, Wendi Peters, Jacquetta May, Jack Fox, Bryan Dick, Nina Toussaint-White, Derek Griffiths, Renee Castle, Ben Starr, Aaron Anthony.

Perhaps in all the ways someone can die at the hands of a murderer, it may be surprising that the creative team and the multitude of writers of Midsomer Murders have never considered using bees as a means of delivering the final, fatal blow.

Midsomer Murders: The Sting Of Death. Television Review. full post

(415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Supergirl: Series Four. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Melissa Benoist, Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh, Katie McGrath, Jesse Rath, Sam Witwer, Nicole Maines, April Parker Jones, David Harewood, Jon Cryer, Rhona Mitra, Robert Baker, Anthony Konechny, Bruce Boxleitner, Andrea Brooks, Sarah Smyth, Graham Verchere,  David Ajala, Donna Benedicto, Jessica Meraz, Azie Tesfai, Lynda Carter, Brenda Strong, Tiya Sircar, Vincent Gale, Cardi Wong, Fulvio Cecere, Xander Berkeley, John Wesley Shipp, La Monica Garrett, Stephen Amell, David Ramsey, Carlos Valdes, Danielle Panabaker, Grant Gustin, Jeremy Davies, Ruby Rose, Carl Lumbly.

Supergirl: Series Four. Television Review. full post

(611 words, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

The Mandalorian (Season Two). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Katee Sackhoff, Giancarlo Esposito, Temuera Morrison, Mercedes Varnado, Misty Rosas, Omid Abtahi, Ming-Na Wen, John Leguizamo, Timothy Olyphant, Richard Ayoade, Simon Kassianides, Titus Welliver, Carl weathers, Michael Biehn, Rosario Dawson, Diana Lee Isosanto, Bill Burr, Mark Hamill.

There was a time when a graphic novel adaption, or a spin off from a much-loved film would be met with the mixture of apathy and delight. Apathy because there was only so much that television could do in terms of making the programme accessible and in keeping with the character’s back story.

The Mandalorian (Season Two). Television Review. full post

(501 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Grace: Dead Simple. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: John Simm, Rakie Ayola, Alisha Bailey, Richie Campbell, Alexander Cobb, Tom Weston-Jones, Silas Carson, Matt Wakeford, Maggie O’Neill, Adrian Rawlins, Matt Stokoe, Charlie Suff, Rupert Holliday-Evans, Cian Binchy, Catherine Bailey, Tiana Khan, Brad Morrison, Laura Elphinstone, Amaka Okafor, Vinny Dhillon, Natasha Joseph, Tim Treloar, Rebecca Scroggs, Diarmaid Murtagh.

Dead Simple, life certainly isn’t; especially when there is money and power involved.

Based on the novels by Peter James, Grace is the latest detective offering by ITV to give insight to the viewers of how police investigations often need a maverick to take risks when it comes to closing a particularly distressing murder or a case that baffles the sense of order.

Grace: Dead Simple. Television Review. full post

(491 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Legends Of Tomorrow (Series Two). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Caity Lotz, Victor Garber, Brandon Routh, Arthur Darvill, Franz Drameh, Matt Letscher, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Amy Pemberton, Nick Zano, Dominic Purcell, Neal McDonough, John Barrowman, Wentworth Miller, Stephen Amell, Christian Westerveld, Rebecca Eady, John Rubenstein, Christina Jastrzemska, Patrick J. Adams, Matthew MacCaull, Srah Grey, Kwesi Ameyaw, Dan Payne, Lance Henriksen, Andre Eriksen, Mel Melancon, Sab Shimono, Jack Turner, Melissa Benoist.

To earn the right to call yourself a successful show or series does not always depend on viewer ratings or how it is talked about in the world of social media, it can also earn the distinction by its character. Like a human being, it is not what is talked about, but underneath that matters.

Legends Of Tomorrow (Series Two). Television Review. full post

(513 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Marcella. Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Anna Friel, Amanda Burton, Aaron McCusker, Hugo Speer, Ray Panthaki, Martin McCann, Kelly Gough, Michael Coglan, Laurence Kinlan, Valerie Lilley, Emily Flain, Eugene O’Hara, Paul Kennedy, Jorin Cooke, Orla Mullan, Julia Dearden, Mary Moulds, Zahra Ahmadi, Hayley McQuillan, Daniel Abbott.

A more contained, streamlined approach, does not always leave the viewer with the comfortable feel of having been enlightened, educated, or entertained. If anything, often less, can be just that, less than entertaining, less than sincere, less than remarkable.

Marcella. Series Three. Television Review. full post

(523 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

The Great. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox, Sacha Dhawan, Charity Wakefield, Gwilym Lee, Adam Godley, Douglas Hodge, Belinda Bromilow, Bayo Gbadmosi, Florence Keith-Roach, Danusia Samal, Sebastian De Souza, Louis Hynes, Kemi-Bo Jacobs, Jamie Demetriou, Christophe Tek, Srewart Scudamore, Alistair Green, Jordan Kagaba, Charlie Price, Blake Harrison, Richard Pyros, Abraham Popoola, Asheq Aktar, Ezra Faroque Khan, Miles Jupp, John Sessions, Freddie Fox.

History is always in perspective, what one historian insists is gospel truth, another will refute and explain in such a way that all that we know is foolish and wrong.

The Great. Television Review. full post

(500 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

McDonald & Dodds: We Need To Talk About Doreen. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tala Gouveia, Jason Watkins, Joy McAvoy, Sharon Rooney, Shelley Conn, Kat Ronney, Maya Coates, Tomos Gwynfryn-Evans, John Thomson, Natalie Gumede, George Watkins, Felipe Bejarano, Andrew Rothney, Carl Andersson, Allegra Marland, James Murray, Jack Riddiford, Lily Sacofsky, Vincent Moisy.

McDonald & Dodds: We Need To Talk About Doreen. Television Review. full post

(612 words, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

WandaVision. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn, Teyonah Parris, Josh Stamberg, Randall Park, Kat Dennings, Evan Peters, David Payton, David Lengel, Amos Glick, Selena Anduze, Julian Hilliard, Debra Jo Rupp, Jett Klyne, Asif Ali, Ithamer Enriquez, Emma Caulfield Ford, Alan Heckner, Zac Henry.

It is fair to insist beyond unreasonable debate that the two Avengers’ films, Infinity War and Endgame, were such behemoths, both in terms of box office performance and providing the type of thrill that has rarely been captured inside a cinema, that it might be suggested by some that no matter what Marvel put out in Phase Four of their ongoing pursuit of graphic novel turned visual entertainment illustrious dominance, it has already reached its zenith.

WandaVision. Television Review. full post

(539 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

McDonald & Dodds: The Man Who Wasn’t There. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tala Gouveia, Jason Watkins, Rob Brydon, Martin Kemp, Cathy Tyson, Rupert Graves, Patsy Kensit, Victor Oshin, Femi Nylander, Vince Leigh, Jack Riddiford, Lily Sacofsky, James Murray, Jonty Stephens, Mia McCallum.

How your opinion can change is to be thought of as a sign of growth, of maturity, or maybe it is just that in the first introduction the feeling of being underwhelmed couldn’t be ignored on the other side that they upped their game to make sure you understood perfectly well that they took the criticism on board and became more in tune with the image they wanted to portray.

McDonald & Dodds: The Man Who Wasn’t There. Television Review. full post

(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)