Category Archives: TV

Endeavour: Zanana. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Anton Lesser, James Bradshaw, Sean Rigby, Abigail Thaw, Caroline O’Neill, Ryan Gage, Richard Harrington, Jessica Hayles, Stephanie Leonidas, Lucy Black, Holli Dempsey, Marianne Oldham, Carol Royle, Flora London, Sam Ferriday, Naomi Yang, Don Gallagher, Charlotte Potter, Andy Williams, Chris Foster, Susan Legg, Ben Alden, Michael Bundy, Paul O’ Kelly.

Doctor Who: The Haunting Of Villa Diodati. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gill, Tosin Cole, Lili Miller, Jacob Collins-Levy, Lewis Rainer, Maxim Baldry.

The Doctor, no matter who plays the titular role of the long running B.B.C. science fiction programme, is always best observed when the element of humour is gradually replaced by the fear of the unknown, when the adversary actually is represented as the darker side of humanity to which the audience, in its role of observer, is taken to its pinnacle of emotional bond.

Good Omens. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Frances McDormand, Sam Taylor Buck, Daniel Mays, Sian Brooke, Adria Arjona, Jon Hamm, Jack Whitehall, Michael McKean, Amma Ris, Alfie Taylor, Miranda Richardson, Paul Chahidi, Ilan Galkoff, Ned Dennehy, Doon Mackichan, Simon Merrells, Gloria Obianyo, Ariyon Nakare, Anna Maxwell Martin, Mireille Enos, Brian Cox, Yusef Gatewood, Bill Paterson, Lourdes Faberes, Jamie Hill, Elizabeth Berrington, Nick Offerman, Josie Lawrence, Nina Sosanya, Jill Winternitz, Tim Bentinck, Dan Antopolski, Bryony Corrigan, Samson Marraccino, David Morrissey, Andy Hamilton, Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss, Paul Kaye, Jonathan Aris, Dan Starkey, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Derek Jacobi, Nicholas Parsons.

Inside No. 9: Love’s Great Adventure. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Debbie Rush, Gaby French, Bobby Schofield, Olly Hudson-Croker.

The secret kept behind closed doors is the one that can either bring a family together, or break it, completely fracture it to the point where the joints will never be truly aligned once more. Whilst television normally glorifies in the fall out of such family despair, whilst film praises the pain in family disfunction, what cannot be argued with is how resilience and love can make for a finer interpretation of what family means, that even in the darkest moment, Love’s Great Adventure is there to prove that drama is only a side show to a truth of expression that is forgiveness and battling the enemies at the gate together.

Endeavour: Raga. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Anton Lesser, James Bradshaw, Sean Rigby, Abigail Thaw, Caroline O’ Neill, Carol Royle, Sia Alipour, William Allam, Pal Aron, Emma Cunniffe, Ryan Gage, Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Merrells, Hiftu Quasem, Rebecca Saire, Madhav Sharma, Deva Wareing, Shane Zaza, Flora London, Harki Bhambra, Buom Tihngang, Graeme Stevely, Ted Robins, Neil Roberts, Raj Awasti.

To understand a country in its current outlook, you have to delve into its past, the moment where perhaps today’s older living generation have set the tone and in which the rest have fallen into line with or which are actively trying to undermine, to create a finer version, or comprehend the fine line that separates the two, between tradition and revolution.

The Pale Horse. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Rufus Sewell, Sean Pertwee, Kaya Scodelario, Bertie Carvel, Georgina Campbell, Madeleine Bowyer, Poppy Gilbert, Claire Skinner, Rita Tushingham, James Fleet, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Sheila Atim, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Ellen Robertson, Sarah Woodward, Kim Chapman, Nicky Goldie, Christopher Bianchi, Elliot Francis, Sarah Jane, Jon Ramsbottom, Mark Schneider.

The supernatural plays no part in the pursuit of murder, or so the purists might have you believe, for in solving a mystery nothing can be forsaken in the reveal of the face of evil.

Cobra. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Robert Carlyle, Victoria Hamilton, Richard Dormer, David Haig, Marisa Abela, Emmanuel Imani, Lucy Cohu, Daz Morland, Con O’Neill, Charlie Carrick, Leigh Remnant, Paul Whelligan, Steven Cree, Alexandre Willaume, Grace Hogg-Robinson, Mark Bazeley, Lee Byford, Jem Hawkes, Leeds Paul, Joshua Hogan, Jennifer Bulcock, Lisa Palfrey, Danny Ashok, Ian Attard, Chris Wilson, Edward Bennett, Ellie Kendrick, Vera Chock, Damien Speed, Molly McGlynn, Max Parker, Yemisi Oyinloye, Caroline Hayes, Denise Moreno, Amber Aga, Christopher Ben, Jamie Causer, Jonathan Harden.

White House Farm. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Freddie Fox, Mark Addy, Gemma Whelan, Stephen Graham, Cressida Bonas, Scott Reid, Alexa Davies, Mark Stanley, Grace Calder, Sean Gilder, Andrew Frame, Amy-Jayne Leigh, Amanda Burton, Oliver Dimsdale, Richard Goulding, Tom Christian, Alfie Allen, Amy McCallum, Dorian Lough, Nicholas Farrell, Millie Brady, Maimie McCoy, Jude Barrowcliffe, Nate Barrowcliffe, Oliver Zettertrom, Stewart Scudamore, Thomas Coombes, David Hunt, Nick Harris, Lucy Briggs-Owen, Amanda Lawrence.

Inside No.9: Death Be Not Proud. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Jenna Coleman, Kadiff Kirwan.

It is not always about who we let into our lives that should be of a concern, it ought to be those we refuse to let go of that would surely be the most troubling; the presence in the room that we cannot somehow live without, such is the fear of letting go that occasionally we find troubled souls and the homes they have made, are nothing more than shrines to ones to whom that refuse to leave.

Doctor Who: Can You Hear Me? Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, Ian Gelder, Clare-Hope Ashley, Aruhan Galieva, Nasreen Hussain, Buom Tihngang, Bhavnisha Parmar.

Every story needs a good villain, every tale requires and demands that one person, that extraordinarily unpleasant creature in the room who will push the fear that you feel every day to the point where it becomes overwhelming, succinct, with form, with trepidation surging through the veins; it is what keeps us alive, it is what asks us plainly to take strength from and defeat the one true foe, fear.