Category Archives: TV

Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt For The Bone Collector. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Russell Hornsby, Arielle Kebbel, Roslyn Ruff, Ramses Jimenez, Brooke Lyons, Tate Ellington, Courtney Grosbeck, Brian F. O’Byrne, Michael Imperioli, Claire Coffee, Tawny Cypress, Jaidon Walls, Rose Evangelina Arrendondo, Tracie Thoms.

As a species we are far more obsessed with serial killers than we are arguably with a range of subjects that would surely be more beneficial to our soul, and yet, whether you are a fan of working your own grey cells to the point of examining every one you know as a possible suspect, for any imaginable inclination in the disease of murder, or whether you find a sense of titillation, a gruesome understanding of the way the mind thinks; to be in the room as they speak their own gospel and truth is perhaps the zenith of police investigation.

Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt For The Bone Collector. Television Review. full post

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

Des. Television Review.

Cast: David Tennant, Daniel Mays, Jason Watkins, Alex Bhat, Ron Cook, Gerard Horan, Jay Simpson, Ben Bailey Smith, Barry Ward, Bronagh Waugh, Ross Anderson, Oscar Garland, Cal MacAninch, Joel Morris.

If murder is the most despicable of all acts, then where does the publicising of the manner of execution, of slaughter, sit in the national conscious?

Des. Television Review. full post

(703 words, estimated 2:49 mins reading time)

Nora From Queens. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Awkwafina, Lori Tan Chinn, BD Wong, Bowen Yang, Jennifer Esposito, Chrissie Fit, Jon Park, Gabo Augustine, Chris Gethard, Jaboukie Yoing-White, John Sanders, Jamie Chung.

The unexpected should not be classed as unlovable, the temptation to judge before we have allowed ourselves the dignity of understanding is far too often an easier route to walk down, after all, there is only a modicum of shame to be registered when you refuse to see the world through the eyes of another culture or generation, a modicum of shame, but a whole heap of pity and embarrassment to your own self-image.

Nora From Queens. Television Review. full post

(555 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Strike: Lethal White. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger, Kerr Logan, Robert Glenister, Sophie Winkleman, Christine Cole, Robert Pugh, Sophie Colquhoun, Nicholas Agnew, Suzanne Burden, Paul Butterworth, Judi Kenley, Joe Johnsey, Andrew Hawley, Ralph Davis, Suzanne Toase, Natalie Gumede, Joseph Quinn, Alfie Tardi, James Mellish, William Gurney, Nick Blood, Safron Coomber, Jamie Ankrah, Joel Gillman, Robyn Holdaway, Kathleen Cranham, Danny Ashok, Jaqueline Boatswain, Julie Morgan Price, Silas Carson, Jack Greenlees, Ruth Lass, Natalie Walter, Adam Long, Nicholas Burns, Mandana Jones, Ann Akin, Shenagh Govan.

Strike: Lethal White. Television Review. full post

(471 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Natalie Dormer, Daniel Zovatto, Nathan Lane, Kerry Bishe, Adriana Barraza, Jessica Garza, Michael Gladis, Jonathan Nieves, Rory Kinnear, Dominic Sherwood, Julian Hilliard, Santino Barnard, Sebastian Chacon, Adam Rodriguez, Hudson West, Amy Madigan, Thomas Kretschmann, Kyle McArthur, Piper Perabo, Adam Rocha, Lin Shaye, Brent Spiner, Stephanie Arcila, Scott Beehner, Christine Estabrook, Lorenza Izzo, Rod McLachlan, David Figlioli, Brad Garrett, Ethan Peck, Richard Kind.

Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels. Television Review. full post

(534 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

Perry Mason: (2020). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Chris Chalk, Shea Whigham, Tatiana Maslany, John Lithgow, Gayle Rankin, Nate Corddry, Veronica Falcon, Jefferson Mays, Andrew Howard, Eric Lange, Robert Patrick, Stephen Root, Lili Taylor, Matt Frewer, Diarra Kilpatrick, David Wilson Barnes, Taylor Nichols, Aaron Stanford, Molly Ephraim, Gretchen Mol, Jenny O’Hara, Justin Kirk.

For television viewers especially, a character is already drawn before they have had chance to them. All of the great protagonists have a history that unless we allow ourselves to dig deeper than what one medium lays out in stone, we never fully understand their actual motives and drives later on, the one moment that made them who they are when we introduced to them in all their pomp and glory.

Perry Mason: (2020). Television Review. full post

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

Batwoman. Series One. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Ruby Rose, Camrus Johnson, Rachel Skarsten, Meagan Tandy, Nicole Kang, Dougray Scott, Rachel Maddow, Sam Littlefield, Elizabeth Anweis, John Emmet Tracy, Christina Wolfe, Allison Riley, Gabriel Mann, Brendon Zub, Greyston Holt, Ava Sleeth, Sean Kuling, Brianne Howey, Sebastian Roche, Gracyn Shinyei, Alex Zahara, Nathan Witte, Rachel Matthews, Nicholas Holmes.

For a series that had the mantra of diversity supposedly at its very heart, the much publicised Batwoman seemed almost obliged to focus on the continual, rather than opening itself up to a greater variety of choice than it often alluded itself to.

Batwoman. Series One. Television Review. full post

(563 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

The Deceived. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Catherine Walker, Emily Reid, Emmett J. Scanlan, Paul Mescal, Eleanor Methven, Ian McElhinney, Shelley Conn, Dempsey Bovell, Louisa Harland, Lloyd Everitt, Cathy-Brennan Bradley, Saffron Coomber, Ciara Berkley, Ava Gallagher, Sophia Adli, Niall Cusack, Vanessa Ifediora, Louise Mathews, Shashi Rami, Catherine Rees, Declan Rodgers, Ethan Yandall, Frank Cannon.

Never trust a writer, they have spent all their life working out how to use their voice to add suspicion and mislead others; such is the finesse in which they have created their characters ability to betray, it is possible to believe everything they say and feel elated when the truth is revealed.

The Deceived. Television Review. full post

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

The Edge. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

“The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity…”, however, it might not be as simple as time suggests, nor as easy as the pundit and fan wishes that it were, for an eternity in the minds of the devoted who worship the swing of the red ball and the poise of the bat on guard, is but a partial second in the mind of the one occupying the crease, a split second in which their weapon parries the hurled round missile away past deep extra cover for six, or in which the mind wanders, and the wicket is taken, taking a fine nick at The Edge.

The Edge. Television Review. full post

(752 words, estimated 3:00 mins reading time)

The Plot Against America. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Winona Ryder, Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, Anthony Boyle, Michael Kostroff, David Krumoltz, Azhy Robertson, Caleb Mills, Jacob Laval, John Turturro, Ben Cole, Kristen Sieh, Steven Maier, Billy Carter, Caroline Kaplan, Eleanor Reissa, Philip Hoffman, Graydon Yosowitz, Ed Moran, Douglas Schneider, Bob Leszcak, Lee Tergesan, David Pittu, Russell Posner, David Greenspan, Keilly McQuail, Andrew Polk, Zach McNally, Kimberly Faye Greenberg, Orest Ludwig, Jason Liebman.

The Plot Against America. Television Review. full post

(630 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)