Category Archives: TV

Legends Of Tomorrow: Series One. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Victor Garber, Brandon Routh, Arthur Darvill, Caity Lotz, Franz Drameh, Ciara Renee, Falk Hentschel, Amy Pemberton, Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Casper Crump. Martin Donovan, Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Neal McDonough, Celia Imrie, Emily Bett Rickards.

Time, you never have enough of it, and you can never change what has been, the best you can hope for is to alter your perception of what has been and hope that the lie you tell yourself sits comfortably in your soul.

Legends Of Tomorrow: Series One. Television Review. full post

(476 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Supergirl: Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Melissa Benoist, Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh, Jeremy Jordan, Katie McGrath, Odette Annable, Chris Wood, David Harewood, Erica Durance, Emma Tremblay, Adrian Pasdar, Andrea Brooks, Carl Lumbly, Chad Lowe, Amy Jackson, Jesse Rath, Anjali Jay, Floriana Lima, Helen Slater, Betty Buckley, Curtis Lum, Brit Morgan, Brenda Strong, Laurie Metcalf.

A fantasy/superhero series that doesn’t acknowledge its dark side is not being honest to its fans, or the graphic novels that inspired the leap to the cinema/television medium.

Supergirl: Series Three. Television Review. full post

(477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

The Serpent. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman, Billy Howle, Ellie Bamber, Mathilde Warnier, Gregoire Isvarine, Tim McInnerny, Amesh Edireweera, Asasiri Kulthanan, William Brand, Chotika Sintuboonkul, Kenneth Won, Fabien Frankel, Adam Rothenberg, Ilker Kaleli, Chicha Amatayakul, Ellie de Lange, Armand Rosbak, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Stacy Martin, Alice Englert.

The Serpent. Television Review. full post

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

Not Going Out (Series 11), Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Lee Mack, Sally Bretton, Hugh Dennis, Abigail Cruttenden, Bobby Ball, Geoffrey Whitehead, Deborah Grant, Susie Blake, Tony Gardner, Jennifer Tollady, Rob Witcomb, Lloyd Griffith, Victoria Grove, Katy Cavanagh, William Andrews, Francesca Newman.

Comedy in times of hardship and national suffering is a difficult ship to steer, to navigate through the pressures of expectation and hope, of continuance, of that overused word of normality, is to arguably place to much a burden on the mind of the writer and the cast that have the added responsibility of their own lives to contend with, let alone an audience in dire need of a laugh.

Not Going Out (Series 11), Television Review. full post

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

The Mandalorian. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Pedro Pascal, Carl Weathers, Werner Herzog, Omid Abtahi, Nick Nolte, Taika Waititi, Gina Carano, Giancarlo Esposito, Emily Swallow, Amy Sedaris, Jake Cannavale, Ming-Na Wen, Mark Boone Junior, Bill Burr, Natalia Tena, Clancey Brown, Richard Ayoade, Ismael Cruz Cordova.

Just when you thought a franchise had no chance of recovery, from out of the darkness comes a different type of light, not one controlled by The Force, but one of actual in-depth characterisation, of thought-provoking subplots and two leads to whom have arguably become one of the great partnerships captured on screen for a long time.

The Mandalorian. Television Review. full post

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

Sharp Objects. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Amy Adams, Patricia Clarkson, Chris Messina, Eliza Scanlen, Matt Craven, Sophia Lillis, Henry Czerny, Elizabeth Perkins, Taylor John Smith, Madison Davenport, Miguel Sandoval, Will Chase, Jackson Hurst, Lulu Wilson, David Sullivan, Violet Brinson, April Brinson, Barbara Eve Harris, Emily Yancy, Sydney Sweeney.

Sharp Objects. Television Review. full post

(595 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

Staged (Series Two). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Simon Evans, Georgia Tennant, Anna Lundberg, Lucy Eaton, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Schwartz, Michael Palin, Romesh Ranganathan, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Christoph Waltz, Ewan McGregor, Hugh Bonneville, Ken Jeong, Josh Gad, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Cate Blanchett.

The problem with originality is that it is difficult to improve upon, people have either sussed you out and expect the format or idea to fail, or they expect bigger and better, the joke to take on a deeper, perhaps even more demanding Kafkaesque appeal; they then insist that the first foray into a new realm was always going to be the best and that it was folly, even reckless to attempt the stunt once more.

Staged (Series Two). Television Review. full post

(546 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

The Pembrokeshire Murders. Television Review.

Cast: Luke Evans, Keith Allen, Caroline Berry, Oliver Ryan, Alexandria Riley, Charles Dale, David Fynn, Steve Meo, Richard Corgan, Kyle Lima, Steffan Cennydd, Simon Nehan, Roger Evans, Rhodri Evan, Anastasia Hille, Simon Armstrong, William Thomas, Suzanne Packer, Owen Teale, Rhys Parry Jones, Ian Saynor, Ioan Hefin, Mabli Jen Eustace, Edward Llewelyn, Sara Gregory, Vern Griffiths, Amy Morgan, Hywel Morgan, Llinor ap Gwynedd.

The Pembrokeshire Murders. Television Review. full post

(565 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

Supergirl: Season Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Melissa Benoist, Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh, Jeremy Jordan, Floriana Lima, Chris Wood, David Harewood, Frederick Schmidt, Rich Ting, Lynda Carter, Dichen Lachman, William Mapother, Dean Cain, Grant Gustin, Benda Strong, Calista Flockhart, Ian Gomez, Katie McGrath, Tyler Hoechlin, Sharon Leal, Terri Hatcher, Harley Quinn Smith, Kevin Sorbo.

There can be no doubting the impact that graphic novels have had on society, the mark they left, the sense of optimism in dark times that they asked their readers to embrace, and the artistic appreciation to which in less than enlightened times were the bane of schoolteachers and parents alike.

Supergirl: Season Two. Television Review. full post

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

Uncle Vanya. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Roger Allam, Richard Armitage, Anna Calder-Marshall, Rosalind Eleazer, Toby Jones, Dearbhla Molloy, Aimee Lou Wood, Peter Wright.

The annoyance of life is such that it only takes one diversion in the perceived day to day normality to throw us from the gentle walk to oblivion and into the realm of unfettered chaos.

Uncle Vanya. Television Review. full post

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