Category Archives: TV

Doctor Who: Dalek Universe 1. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: David Tennant, Jane Slavin, Joe Sims, Juliet Aubrey, Nicholas Briggs, Maria Teresa Creasey, Mark Gatiss, Chris Jarman, Kevin McNally, Gemma Whelen.

Time has a habit of bringing us back to that place we think we have left behind forever.

The Doctor, especially in his tenth incarnation, has lived through the emotional turmoil of losing companions, his people, and at times, his own perspective on the Universe; pushed through time and sometimes not able to withstand the pressure facing him from all sides. He might win, he might save the day, but it feels like a loss, a devastating failure in which his actions to save Gallifrey in a previous life still echo around him like marbles in a tin can.

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

Doctor Who: The War Doctor Begins – Forged In Fire. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jonathon Carley, Adele Anderson, Anna Andresen, Nicholas Briggs, John Dorney, Amy Downham, Helen Goldwyn, Chris Jarman, Marilyn Nnadebe, Veronica Roberts, Tracy Wiles, Kit Young.

We cannot judge the actions of the final act of a person’s life unless we truly understand what led them to the battle, the rage of conflict in the first place.

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(610 words, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

Fargo (Series 4). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Chris Rock, Jessie Buckley, Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw, Jack Huston, Salvatore Esposito, E’myri Crutchfield, Andrew Bird, Jeremie Harris, Matthew Elam, Corey Hendrix, James Vincent Acquaroli, Gaetano Bruno, Stephen Spencer, Karen Aldridge, Glynn Turman, Timothy Olyphant, Kelsey Asbille, Rodney L. Jones, Rodney L. Jones, Nadia Simms, Tommaso Ragno, Torrey Hanson, Will Clinger, Cruz Gonzalez-Cadel, Sean Firtunato, Evan Mulrooney, Bokeem Woodbine, Brad Mann.

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

Loki. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sophie Di Martino, Owen Wilson, Wunmi Mosaku, Richard E. Grant, Jack Veal, Deobia Oparei, Jonathan Majors.

They who have remained are the ones reaping the benefits of dedicated, intricate, and highly polished storytelling. A narrative so beautiful that not only would the late, great, and hugely missed Stan Lee have marvelled at how sublime the director Kate Herron had brought every element of surprise, style and belief to the six-part series of Loki, but how both Tom Hiddlestone and Sophie Di Martino in their respective roles have encompassed the graphic novel’s giants turn to the television serial, and how effective it has been.

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(487 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

The Watch. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Richard Dormer, Lara Rossi, Adam Hugill, Marama Corlett, Jo Eaton-Kent, Samuel Adewunmi, Bianca Simone Mannie, Craig Macrae, Wendell Price, Joe Vaz, Shane John Kruger, Anna Chancellor, Paul Kaye, Natalie Walsh, Matt Berry, Marc Hyland, Ingrid Oliver, Ralph Ineson, Trevor Frost, Russell Crous, Ruth Madeley, James Fleet, Jonathan Pienaar, Tarryn Wyngaard, Hakeem Kae-Kazim.

If the Devil is in the detail, then it must have taken one hell of a being to come up with the intricacies that lay in the world of Ankh-Morpork, and the realm that encompasses Discworld.

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

Intergalactic. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Savannah Steyn, Imogen Davies, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Eleanor Tomlinson, Natasha O’Keefe, Diany Samba-Bandza, Parminder Nagra, Samantha Schnitzler, Thomas Turgoose, Craig Parkinson, Oliver Coopersmith, Neil Maskell, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Emily Bruni.

The future for humanity is one still yet to be decided, and whether we make it through the current sets of crises more or less unscathed; whether we take heed of the lessons being taught us as the Earth, our home, screams in pain through our abuse, remains to be seen. Yet still, the golden future could come to pass, there could be silver towers glimmering in the sunlight, we could all be equal under law until we break it, the science fiction utopia could be ours; if we are willing to sacrifice something else that’s precious instead.

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(507 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

The Nevers. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Laura Donnelly, Ann Skelly, Olivia Williams, James Norton, Tom Riley, Pip Torrens, Rochelle Neil, Amy Manson, Zachary Momah, Viola Prettejohn, Kiran Sonia Sawer, Ella Smith, Anna Devlin, Ben Chaplin, Zain Hussain, Denis O’ Hare, Nick Frost, Elizabeth Berrington, Pui Fan Lee, Eleanor Tomlinson, Vinnie Heaven, Claudia Black, Domenique Fragale, Martyn Ford, Mark Benton, Sylvie Briggs, Nicholas Farrell, Nicola Sloane, Abigail Thaw, Matt Emery.

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

Time. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Sean Bean, Stephen Graham, James Nelson-Joyce, Hannah Walters, Dean Fagan, Jack McMullen, Paddy Rowan, Brian McCardie, Siobhan Finnernan, Cal MacAninch, Nadine Marshall, Kevin Harvey, David Calder, Sue Johnston, Franc Ashman, Nabil Elouahabi, Natalie Gavin, Aneurin Barnard, George Gjiggy Francis, Shaun Mason, Marie Critchley, Neal Caple, Bobby Schofield, Shahid Ahmed, Philip Barantini, Jonathan Harden, Terence Maynard, Jason Done, Lee Morris.

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

The Luminaries. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Eve Hewson, Eva Green, Himesh Patel, Marton Csokas, Ewan Leslie, Erik Thomson, Callan Mulvey, Benedict Hardie, Richard Te Are, Matt Whelan, Matthew Sunderland, Joel Tobeck, Gary Young, Paolo Rotondo, Byron Coll, Mark Mitchinson, Yoson An, Errol Shand, Kieran Charnock, Chelsie Preston Crayford, Jed Brophy, Emma Sloman, Cameron Rhodes.

There are so few lands left to explore here in Earth, that we must look to the stars and other realms in which to spread our wings as a species, but we do so in the knowledge that we will always be limited by our imagination, and the inability to keep the sacred nature of what we find, pure and unsoiled.

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

Doctor Who. Dalek Universe: The Dalek Protocol.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, John Leeson, Jane Slavin, Joe Simms, Jez Felder, Anna Mitcham, Nicholas Briggs.

Every ending must have a beginning, and every person you have ever said goodbye to, at some point said hello for the first time, such is the issue with Time that sometimes it can feel as though these moments are the wrong way round, maybe even inside out, and our minds have to catch up, have to adapt, or we might find that Time will find a way to erase us from the future to come.

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(422 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)