Category Archives: TV

The Goes Wrong Show: Harper’s Locket. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Bryony Corrigan, Dave Hearn, Chris Leask, Henry Lewis, Charlie Russell, Jonathan Sayer, Henry Shields, Greg Tannahill, Nancy Zamit.

Croquet, in the words of Progressive Rock legend Peter Gabriel, “Is a particularly vicious sport” and as the mallet falls through the air and crashes into the head of the family maid, Mrs Hargreaves, one cannot but fail to appreciate just how the team behind The Goes Wrong Show have become, in one short season on television, the theatre team that have conquered the stage and the cameras with apparent ease.

The Goes Wrong Show: Harper’s Locket. Television Review. full post

(392 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders, The Point Of Balance. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * *

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Christopher Timothy, Tom Chambers, Jaye Griffiths, Natalie Gumede, Nigel Havers, Jack Hawkins, Ty Hurley, Michelle Jeram, Chen Yip Lai, Cassidy Little, Danny Mac, Carolina Main, Colin Murtagh, Guy Normas, Kazia Pelka, Steven Pereira, Luke Pierre, Mike Ray, Isabel Shaw, Faye Tozzer, Jo Wheatley, Susan Fordham, Tim Wildman, Chris Wilson.

Dance is not for everyone, like most art it can be a subjective pursuit, one that is open to interpretation and double meaning; like the lies we tell when we wish to impress, interpretation is one that either scores well or is seen to be lacking in its detail and glamour.

Midsomer Murders, The Point Of Balance. Television Review. full post

(456 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Nikola Tesla’s Night Of Terror. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, Mandip Cole, Goran Visnjic, Robert Glenister, Anjli Mohindra, Haley McGee, Paul Kasey, Robin Guiver, Erick Hayden, Russell Bentley, Brian Caspe, Shaun Mason.

It would be easy to dismiss the dreamers, those who see beyond the structure of the present moment and who just, understandably, want to see their lives as a strict progression of birth to death and the fun, the love, the lessons in between. There is nothing wrong with that state of mind, nothing that can, or should be, taken away from the simplicity which marks our time on Earth.

Doctor Who: Nikola Tesla’s Night Of Terror. Television Review. full post

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

Doctor Who: Orphan 55. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, Laura Fraser, Gia Re, James Buckley, Julia Foster, Amy Booth-Steel, Will Austin, Col Farrell, Lewin Lloyd, Spencer Wilding.

Regardless of whether we feel like we are being preached to, or we accept that occasionally we require reminding, we are not the masters of our world; we may act like it, we rape and pillage all the natural resources, shed a tear as animals burn but count the pounds, shillings and pence as we profit from yet another mine opening, another plastic bag found at the bottom of the sea but we save a tenner on a flight. Such is the cause and effect of our actions on the planet, that we can be seen as monsters in our own reflections, not matter how much good we try to bestow.

Doctor Who: Orphan 55. Television Review. full post

(410 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Vera: Blood Will Tell. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Kenny Doughty, Jon Morrison, Ibinabo Jack, Riley Jones, Paul Kaye, Barry Aird, Marian McLoughlin, David Birrell, Jalaal Hartley, Charlotte Pyke, Simon Trinder, Josh Barrow, Brian Lonsdale, Viraj Juneeja, Amaka Okafor, Janine Birkett, Jay Saighal, Jonathan Spencer, Charity Bedu-addo.

When it comes to murder, motive is seen as a prime indication of guilt, the trouble being is that an investigation is rarely that clean and clear cut and if everyone who had motive acted out on the dark fantasy of assassination and killing, then there would be an awful lot more bodies on the pathologist’s table; such is our depths of self-destruction and possible fall outs that death and murder are the two constants that drive the universe on.

Vera: Blood Will Tell. Television Review. full post

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

The Goes Wrong Show: A Trial To Watch. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Bryony Corrigan, Dave Hearn, Henry Lewis, Charlie Russell, Jonathan Sayer, Henry Shields, Greg Tannahill, Nancy Zamit.

The art of farce and slapstick is form that only comes alive when the whole production is behind it, it cannot be achieved in half measures, it requires all the cast to be on their absolute game; a situation where the magic of the farce is brutally exploited to make the belief of ineptness become just as much as part of the act as the mockery and cynicism to which the situation calls for.

The Goes Wrong Show: A Trial To Watch. Television Review. full post

(371 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: Till Death Do Us Part. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Camilla Arfwedson, Ella Blainska, Kelly Brook, Michael Fox, Liz Fraser, Gabrielle Glaister, Nick Hancock, Colin McFarlane, Maya Sondhi, Fenella Woolgar.

To have and to hold…Till Death Do Us Part, sometimes the symbolic words take on extra meaning, especially when a marriage is short-lived, something that is arguably a possibility when the ceremony is held in the vicinity of Midsomer.

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

Doctor Who: Spyfall (Parts One And Two). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gill, Tosin Cole, Sacha Dhawan, Lenny Henry, Stephen Fry, Aurora Marion, Slyvie Briggs, Mark Dexter, Shibna Gulati, Ravin J. Ganatra, Bhavnisha Parmar, Melissa De Vries, Sacharissa Claxton, William Ely, Brian Law, Buom Tihngang, Asif Khan, Andrew Bone, Ronan Summers, Christopher McArthur, Darron Meyer, Dominique Maher, Struan Rodger, Lex Lamprey, James Rockey, Andrew Pipe, Tom Ashley, Kenneth Jay, Blanche Williams.

The spies in disguise, ones to whom perhaps have thrown off the shackles of the previous series and now have free reign to take the long running show into a new direction.

Doctor Who: Spyfall (Parts One And Two). Television Review. full post

(603 words, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)

Dracula. Television Review.(2020).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Claes Bang, Dolly Wells, John Heffernan, Joanna Scanlan, Morfydd Clark, Lujza Richter, Lyndsey Marshall, Corinna Wilson, Mark Gatiss, Matthew Beard, Tim Ignall, Jonathan Aris, Chanel Cresswell, Petra Dubayova, Sacha Shawan, Youssef Kerkour, Phil Dunster, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Patrick Walshe McBride, Lydia West, Clive Russell, Catherine Schell, Samuel Blenkin, Anthony Flanagan, Alec Utgoff, Dilyana Bouklieva, Andrew Byron, Lily Dodsworth-Evans, Ria Fend, Katherine Jakeways, Lily Kakkar, Scott Karim, Anthony Kaye, Olivia Klein, Abdulla Majid, John McCrea, Sarah Niles, Sofia Oxenham, Natasha Radski, Joakim Skarli, Veronica Stanwell, Cat White, Millicent Wong.

Dracula. Television Review.(2020). full post

(617 words, estimated 2:28 mins reading time)

The Goes Wrong Show: The Pilot (Not The Pilot. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Bryony Corrigan, Dave Hearn, Nancy Zamit, Chris Leask, Henry Lewis, Charlie Russell, Jonathan Sayer, Henry Shields.

Audiences have become too used to the idea of historical inaccuracies being part of a plot line, so much so that we no longer question them with the same level of interrogation as we used to. They are presented as adding texture to the story, vital to portray the themes in a certain light and to perhaps highlight a certain character’s involvement in the tale to a greater effect that was played out in real life.

The Goes Wrong Show: The Pilot (Not The Pilot. Television Review. full post

(422 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)