Category Archives: TV

Fringe: Series 1-5. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Jasika Nicole, John Noble, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown, Michael Cerveris, Kirk Acevedo, Seth Gabel, Leonard Nimoy, Ryan McDonald, Marl Valley, Michael Kopsa, Lily Pilblad, Ari Graynor, Eugene Lipinski, Jared Harris, Sebastian Roche, Shaun Smyth, Kevin Corrigan, Georgina Haig, Meghan Markle.

Cult Science-Fiction television is arguably, in its own way, far more satisfying a pastime in which to get the brain moving and stirring the what-if of imagination than by being sucked into the daily routine of gameshows, celebrity gossip and the intrigue of the soap opera digest.

Fringe: Series 1-5. Television Review. full post

(642 words, estimated 2:34 mins reading time)

Too Close. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Emily Watson, Denise Gough, Thalissa Teixeira, Karl Johnson, Jamie Sives, Risteard Cooper, Eileen Davies, Chizzy Akudolu, Thea Barrett, Nina Wadia, Henry Helm, Isabelle Mullally, Ariyon Bakare, Madeleine Demetriou, Jackie Clune, Adrian Hood, Islah Abdur-Rahman, Grace Calder, Paul Chahidi, Stephen McCole, Rina Fatania, Delainey Hayles, Nathalie Armin, Joan Iyiola, Barbara Drennan, Ria Knowles, Gina Fillingham, Alex Hughes, James Doherty.

Too Close. Television Review. full post

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

Supergirl: Series 5. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Melissa Benoist, Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh, Katie McGrath, Jesse Rath, Nicole Maines, Azie Tesfai, Andrea Brooks, Julie Gonzalo, Staz Nair, LaMonica Garrett, David Harwood, Jon Cryer, Phil LaMarr, Carl Lumbly, Mitch Pileggi, Cara Buono, Brenda Strong, Sean Astin, Jeremy Jordan, Henry Czerny, Chris Wood, Sam Witwer, Odette Annable.

Fighting on all fronts, opening new worlds, only to see them collide and burn, that is the fate of us all, so it would seem. Yet through the eyes of many, we are given insight into how super we can become, that when the true moment of possible destruction is upon us, we can fly in the face of fear and look upon ourselves as something more than heroic, we can be genuinely human.

Supergirl: Series 5. Television Review. full post

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

Bates Motel: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thierot, Olivia Cooke, Nicola Peltz, Nestor Carbonell, Michael O’Neill, Michael Eklund, Ian Tracey, Paloma Kwiatkowski, Michael Varten, Rebecca Creskoff, Kathleen Robertson, Kenny Johnson, Matthew Mandzij, Michael Rogers, Francis X. McCarthy, Agam Darshi, Aliyah O’Brien, Robert Moloney, Vincent Gale, Gillian Barber, Lini Evans, Brendan Fletcher, Veena Sood, Sarah Gray, Andrew Airlie, John Cassini, Keegan Connor Tracy.

Bates Motel: Series Two. Television Review. full post

(531 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: The Stitcher Society. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Keith Allen, Lizzy McInnerny, Colin Murtagh, Manoj Anand, Raj Awasti, Nimmy March, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd. Peter De Jersey, Michael Nardone, Sirine Saba, Natalie Simpson, John Thompson, Harriet Thorpe.

A heart attack is a life changing moment, a point of reckoning, a path that splits in two, and depending on how you recover, can lead to decisions being made that have ramifications down the line, and which, like murder, can lead to others suffering for your spur of the moment actions.

Midsomer Murders: The Stitcher Society. Television Review. full post

(481 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Legends Of Tomorrow: Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast; Caity Lotz, Brandon Routh, Victor Garber, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Franz Drameh, Amy Louise Pemberton, Tala Ashe, Nick Zano, Dominic Purcell, Arthur Darvill, Jes Macallan, Hiro Kanagawa, Adam Tsekhman, Courtney Ford, John Noble, Neal McDonough, Matt Ryan, Billy Zane, Bar Paly, Celia Massingham, Isabella Hofmann, Graeme McComb, Benjamin Diskin, Luke Bilyk, Geoffrey Blake, Lovell Adams-Gray, Johnathon Schaech, Wentworth Miller.

Passionate irreverence and satire are to be applauded when offered to an audience in the knowing wink and smile that is hoped to produce a smile. It is the acknowledgement that taking life so seriously can be harmful to the soul, and if that satire and cheeky impudence is aimed at yourself, then it makes the experience of the artistic intent, all the greater.

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

(462 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Bates Motel: Series One. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot, Olivia Cooke, Nestor Carbonell, Nicola Peltz, Ian Hart, Kennan Tracey, Ian Tracey, Aliyah O’Brien, Mike Vogel, Jenna Romanin, Brittney Wilson, Jere Burns, Emmalyn Estrada, Matthew Matdzij.

How do you top a film that routinely makes the top 100 lists of all time, how do you bring one of cinema’s scariest villains into the conscious of the television viewer without taking apart what made him such a compelling antagonist in the first place; the only way such a character as Norman Bates can return to the mind of the audience is to take him back to the very beginning, to the point where nature and nurture explore the madness within his teenage soul.

Bates Motel: Series One. Television Review. full post

(440 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: The Wolf Hunter Of Little Worthy. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Louise Jameson, Maimie McCoy, Mark Williams, Siobhan Redmond, Poppy Gilbert, Mollie Harris, Ferdinand Kingsley, Kojo Attah, Brian Bovell, Lee Byford, Kadell Herida, Ruth Horrocks, Sinead Matthews, Mat McCooey.

Every village has its myth, its local legend, and if doesn’t then it should take a leaf out of the playbook of the long running and popular series, Midsomer Murders.

Midsomer Murders: The Wolf Hunter Of Little Worthy. Television Review. full post

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

Damien. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Bradley James, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Omid Abtahi, Barbara Hershey, David Meunier, Robin Weigert, Melanie Scrofano, Viv Moore, Scott Wilson, Brody Bover, Michael Therriault, Daniel Kash, Madison Oldroyd, Juan Carlos Velis, Sandrine Holt, Joe Doyle, Bola Aiyeola, James Cade, Fulvio Cecere, Sara Garcia, Bess Armstrong.

We are forever vigilant it seems against the pulse of evil, its persuasion, its power in rhetoric and belief, that we forget how some can be swayed, seduced into following the path that others fear to tread, how the blinding light of what appears to be reasonable at face value, has the potential to turn humanity into baseless creatures of the night.

Damien. Television Series Review. full post

(504 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

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)