Category Archives: TV

Vienna Blood: The Lost Child. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Matthew Beard, Jurgen Maurer, Luise von Finckh, Jessica De Gouw, Conleth Hill, Amelia Bullmore, Charlene McKenna, Oliver Stokowski, Raphaek von Bargan, Simon Hatzl.

A fellowship is only as noble as its intentions, one may look to the ideals of any organisation and believe that it is possible to fit in, to strive to be accepted into the ranks in which opportunities lay and reward follows suit, but in amongst such pursuits we may find that we become a little less whole, that the uniform handed to us fits uncomfortably and the handshake of acceptance is one that crushes the fingers.

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

Elizabeth Is Missing. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Glenda Jackson, Helen Behan, Sophie Rundle, Liv Hill, Nell Williams, Mark Stanley, Neil Pendleton, Maggie Steed, Sam Hazeldine, Michelle Duncan, John-Paul Hurley, Tom Urie, Julia Hannan, Linda Hargreaves, Neil Pendleton, Tony Atherton, Anne-Marie Nabirve, Begonia Villalba, Nabs Aziz.

To gradually forget what has happened in your life is one of the great sources of unhappiness that anyone could arguably go through. To leave behind moments of love and tenderness, to fail to recall an event, to not recognise your child, to be powerless to get through the day without being capable of remembering the basics to be able to function, that is the greatest act of cruelty that the mind can play on a human being.

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(378 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

The Name Of The Rose. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Turturro, Rupert Everett, Damian Hardung, James Cosmo, Michael Emerson, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Greta Scarno, Richard Sammel, Stefano Fresi, Roberto Herlitzka, Fausto Maria Sciarappa, Maurizio Lombardi, Nina Fotaras, Guglielmo Favilla, Piotr Adamczyk, Tcheky Karyo, Benjamin Stender, Claudio Bigagli, Corrado Invernizzi, Max Malatesta, Alessio Boni, Sebastian Koch, Rinat Khismatouline, Camilla Diana, David Brandon, Peter Davison.

If life is about having faith, then to tackle a classic novel over the course of several episodes on television and pray that it hits home with even greater intensity than it did in the cinema, then that is devotion and conviction in one fell swoop to the cause of the writer’s pen.

The Name Of The Rose. Television Review. full post

(520 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Vienna Blood, The Queen Of The Night. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Matthew Beard, Jurgen Maurer Luise Von Finckh, Jessica De Gouw, Conleth Hill, Amelia Bullmore, Charlene McKenna, Ursula Strauss, Oliver Stokowski, Raphaek von Bargen, Simon Hatzl.

We stoke the fires of revenge in our minds with ease, by refusing to let go of every conceived sleight, every disgrace against our body and our mind, we become trapped by our own belief, we wish to create an anarchy of feeling in which we can enjoy the employment of justice by our own hands.

Vienna Blood, The Queen Of The Night. Television Review. full post

(518 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Vienna Blood: The Last Séance. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Matthew Beard, Jurgen Maurer, Luise Von Finckh, Jessica De Gouw, Conleth Hill, Amelia Bullmore, Charlene McKenna, Oliver Stokowski, Raphaek Von Bargen, Simon Hatzl. 

Modern investigation into murder and criminal action has moved on in the last one hundred years to such a pace where now we arguably rely on technology with more certainty than we do with the greatest resource available to us, that of the mind.

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(518 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

The War Of The Worlds. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 0

Cast: Rafe Spall, Eleanor Tomlinson, Rupert Graves, Nicholas Le Provost, Harry Melling, Jonathan Aris, Robert Carlyle, Charlie De’Ath, Joey Batey, Freya Allan, Daniel Cerqueira, Aisling Jarrett-Gavin, Woody Norman, Reid Anderson, Susan Woolridge, Taliyah Blair, Philip Gascoyne, Sam Benjamin, Christopher Hatherall, Daniel Cerqueira, Bradley Cottrell, Kieron Bimpson, Cokey Falkow, Milo Twomey, Michele Donockley, Joanne James, Craig Thomas Lambert, Keith Lomas, Juliet Roar, Georgie-May Tearle.

The War Of The Worlds. Television Review. full post

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

Guilt. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Mark Bonnar, Jamie Sives, Ruth Bradley, Sian Brooke, Ellie Haddington, Emun Elliott, Moyo Akande, Bill Paterson, Gregor Firth, Noof McEwan, Tom Urie, Joe Donnelly, Gordon Brown, Natali McCleary, Michael Nardone.

The guilt we carry over one seemingly random accident is normally a product of time, of all the wrongs we have committed, the slanders, the lies, the moments in which we went against the greater good and lined our own pockets with sentiment and mealy-mouthed praise. Guilt eats you alive and devours you with disturbing eagerness, and when it finally catches up with you it leaves no trace but hopeful shame rotting in the place where your soul should be.

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(445 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

World On Fire: Series One. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Helen Hunt, Julia Brown, Jonah Hauer-King, Sean Bean, Zofia Wichlacz, Brian J. Smith, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Parker Sawyers, Max Riemelt, Tomasz Zietek, Joao Rei Viller, Eugenie Derouand, Ansu Kabia, Ewan Mitchell, Lesley Manville, Johannes Zeiler, Blake Harrison, Ceallach Spellman, Dora Zygouri, Matthew Aubrey, Arthur Darvill, Benjamin Wainwright.

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

Dublin Murders. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Sarah Greene, Killian Scott, Michael D’Arcy, Eugene O’Hare, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Moe Dunford, Ellie O’Halloran, Niall Jordan, Ian Kenny, Conleth Hill, Amy Macken, Leah McNamara, Peter McDonald, Jonny Holden, Daniel Brickenden, Sam Keeley, Niall O’Brien, Aoife Fitzpatrick, David Thomas, Aiden O’ Hare, Alexandra Moen, Jonathan Forbes, Carolyn Bracken, Antonio Aakeel, Vanessa Emme, Charlie Kelly, Amelia Crowley, Barry O’Connor, Eunice McMenamin, Ned Dennehy, Erika Roe, James Browne, Caoimhe O’Malley, Paul Roe.

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(436 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Not Going Out: Halloween Special. (2019). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Lee Mack, Sally Breton, Bobby Ball, Marcia Warren, Stephanie Levi-John, Ben Crowe, Billy Lydon, Michael Fenton-Stevens, Francesca Newman, Finlay Southby, Max Pattison.

 

You either love Halloween or you hate it, you can see it as a night of childish fantasy, or an import, a moment in which we party at the expense of someone else’s culture, the trick or the treat, whichever way you look at it, it is only for one night.

Not Going Out: Halloween Special. (2019). Television Review. full post

(499 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)