Category Archives: TV

The Terror. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies, Paul Ready, Adam Nagaitis, Ian Hart, Nive Nielsen, Ciaran Hinds, Christos Lawton, Matthew McNulty, David Walmsey, Liam Garrigan, Jack Colgrave Hirst, Stephen Thompson, Ronan Raftery, Mikey Collins, Edward Ashley, Chris Corrigan, Alistair Petrie, Charlie Kelly, Kevin Guthrie, Declan Hannigan, Anthony Flanagan, Aaron Jeffcoate, Greta Scacchi, Trystan Gravelle, Charles Edwards, John Lynch, Guy Falkner, Sian Brooke, Reed Diamond, William MacDonald, Johnny Issaluk, Richard Sutton, Tom Weston-Jones.

The Terror. Television Review. full post

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

Resident Alien: Series One. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Alan Tudyk, Sara Tomko, Alice Wetterlund, Corey Reynolds, Levi Fiehler, Judah Ptehn, Meredith Garretson, Elizabeth Bowen, Alex Barima, Keith Arbuthnot, Mandell Maughan, Kaylayla Raine, Diana Bang, Gary Farmer, Jenna Lamia, Deborah Finkel, Gracelyn Awad Rinke, Elvy, Ben Cotton, Sarah Podemski, Linda Hamilton, Terry O’ Quinn, Nathan Fillon.

Resident Alien: Series One. Television Review. full post

(552 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: With Baited Breath. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Vincent Franklin, Eleanor Fanyinka, Nicola Stephenson, Nitin Ganatra, Bronagh Waugh, Miles Jupp, Lloyd Everitt, Andrew Brooke, Morgan Watkins, Krupa Pattani, Aneurin Barnard, John Stahl, Paul Hunter.

Many a lake and village pond hold a dark and terrible secret. On the surface what is seen is just the ripples caught by the wind or the thrown and skimmed stone, a gentleness of English countryside, the majesty of the Scottish Loch, is in fact a burial ground for the dead and the forgotten.

Midsomer Murders: With Baited Breath. Television Review. full post

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

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)