Category Archives: TV

Ghosts: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Mathew Baynton, Martha Howe-Douglas, Simon Farnaby, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond, Charlotte Ritchie, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Lolly Adefope, Katy Wix, Yani Xander, Raj Ghatak, Ed Kear, Steve Oram, Cornelius Booth, Geoffrey McGivern, Anya McKenna-Bruce, Nathan Bryon, Isabella Laughland, Yaamin Chowdhury, Bridget Christie, Mario Demetriou, Holli Dempsey, Neil Edmond, Megan Grech, Shiraz Haq, Amber Jackson-Bond, Bronwyn James, Simon Kane, Aquib Khan.

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

The Twilight Zone: The Who Of You. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ethan Embry, Daniel Sunjata, Mel Rodriguez, Billy Porter, Jay Hindle, Carmel Amit, Veena Sood, Jordan Peele, David Lewis, Samantha Rose, Miles Phoenix Foley, Joel Chico, Frank C. Turner, Paolo Maiolo, Bailey Corneal.

Not all of us have the opportunity to see the world through the eyes of another soul, we may sympathise with their plight, we can perhaps engage with their worries, their suffering, be overjoyed at their feelings of love, their elation, the demands on their time, the peace they wish for; but we cannot ever fully experience what it is to see our shared surroundings and understand the way they view it.

The Twilight Zone: The Who Of You. Television Review. full post

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

The Third Day. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jude Law, Katherine Waterston, Naomi Harris, Emily Watson, Paddy Considine, Mark Lewis Jones, John Dagleish, Jessie Ross, Richard Bremmer, Freya Allan, Borje Lundberg, Paul Kaye, Nico Parker.

British Folk Horror or the gothic supernatural doesn’t perhaps get the respect it deserves in the 21st Century, few writers will embrace it, and it appears even less people wish to dip their toe into the murky, almost pitch black seas to which the mirroring and observances of the closed community has thrived unabated by the pressures of time, or indeed the interference of the outside world.

The Third Day. Television Review. full post

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

Two Weeks To Live. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Maisie Williams, Sian Clifford, Mawaan Rizwan, Taheen Modek, Thalissa Teixeira, Kerry Howard, Jason Flemyng, Michael Begley, Tony Pritchard, Sean Knopp, Sean Pertwee, Pooky Quesnel, Jean Trend, Caitlin Rawden, Josh Hull, Dominic Holmes. 

It all starts with a lie, a small one, a fib in which we believe we are doing the right thing to keep someone safe from a truth which is more potentially devastating and overwhelming than the lie being exposed twenty years down the line. With Two Weeks To Live, would you come clean, or would you rather see the world explode around your ears if it meant you never had to admit to one small fib, one moment of falsehood, delivered to keep someone alive.

Two Weeks To Live. Television Review. full post

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

Us. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Hollander, Saskia Reeves, Tom Taylor, Gina Bramhill, Iain De Caestecker, Thaddea Graham, Sophie Grabol, Giuseppe Bonifati, Charlotte Spencer, Amaia Aguinaga, Charlie Archer, Frank Assi, Rachel Coutinho, Joe Dixon, Daniel Fearn, Andrew Hawley, Severine Howell-Meri, Jason Langley, Dylan Mitchell, Lucia Saavedra, George Webster.

A coming of age story is not exclusively one told from the perspective of the young adult who has successfully navigated life’s early lessons, only to find that they now face a tougher set of questions, set-backs and revelations; in deed age is no barrier to that one moment in life where everything you thought you were, all that you have strived to be, is nothing more than a minefield of quandaries, difficulties and heart breaking realisations.

Us. Television Review. full post

(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

The Twilight Zone: Downtime. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Morena Baccarin, Colman Domingo, Serinda Swan, Tony Hale, Jordan Peele, Hamza Fouad, Javcie Dotin, Natalie Goyarzu, James Kot, Darren Dolynski, Andrew Lo, Jacob Machin, Aason Nadjiwan, M.J. Kokolis, Zac Siewert, Miriam Smith, Sandy Robson, Ingrid Libera.

We all have daydreamed about being somebody else, perhaps even have a specific image in our minds of how we would look, our standing, our gender, if we had the choice offered us, rather than the one we inherit thanks to our genes and the luck of the draw when it comes to conception.

The Twilight Zone: Downtime. Television Review. full post

(543 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

I Hate Suzie. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Billie Piper, Leila Farzad, Daniel Ings, Matthew Jordan-Caws, Nathaniel Martello-White, Emma Smithin, Molly Jackson-Shaw, Chelsea Edge, Dexter Fletcher, Amanda Abbington, Ryan Gage, Phil Daniels, Lorraine Ashbourne.

Regardless of whether you are considered a celebrity or someone who just happens to be chosen at random to be humiliated, the sense of power that a malevolent hacker can have over your most intimate moments in life is enough to make you consider removing yourself from the modern day rack which is the internet, completely.

I Hate Suzie. Television Review. full post

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

Agatha And The Midnight Murders. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Helen Baxendale, Gina Bramhill, Elizabeth Tan, Alistair Petrie, Vanessa Grasse, Blake Harrison, Jodie McNee, Daniel Caltagirone, Morgan Watkins, Jacqueline Boatswain, Scott Chambers, Thomas Chaanhing,

If you can’t make the programmes or films you want, then there is always a way to produce something close, a piece of art that fills the same shaped gap and which will always have the fan clamouring to add to their memory, giving them just that little extra taste of their favourite character or person; even if the situation is versed in the realm of the imaginative alternative history.

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

The Twilight Zone: Meet In The Middle. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jimmi Simpson, Gillian Jacobs, Kristin Lehman, Mike Dupod, Jordan Peele, Emily Chang, Sara Amini, Lossen Chambers, Emerson Skye Coutts, Jamall Johnson, Simon Chinn, Nagin Rezaiean, Matthew Mandzij, Garth Hodsogson, Nicole Major.

Having someone to care for and having someone always on your mind are not exclusive bed fellows when it comes to dating, to love, to togetherness, and yet we somehow tie ourselves up in knots as we try to reconcile the two emotions and meld them into one large, often gut wrenching, passion in which we imagine we know what they are thinking at all times.

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(449 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Agatha And The Curse Of Ishtar. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Lyndsey Marshal, Jonah Hauer-King, Bronagh Waugh, Rory Fleck Byrne, Jack Deam, Wai Ali, Stanley Townsend, Colin Farrell, Crystal Clarke, Katherine Kingsley, Daniel Gosling, Mark Lambert, Walles Hamonde, Liran Nathan, Waleed Elgadi, James Staddon, Emma Darlow.

It is perhaps in keeping with another moment of her life, that the time after her divorce from her first husband, Colonel Archibald Christie, should also be shrouded in a little mystery and intrigue, and regardless of the truth of the matter, there is always a little fun to be had in a slight alternative history which adds to the alure and grandness of Agatha Christie’s overall powerful and driven persona.

Agatha And The Curse Of Ishtar. Television Review. full post

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