Category Archives: TV

Summer Of Rockets. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Toby Stephens, Keeley Hawes, Lily Sacofsky, Linus Roache, Gary Beadle, Toby Woolf, Lucy Cohu, Mark Bonnar, Claire Bloom, Suanne Braun, Timothy Spall, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Leo Staar, Greg Austin, Peter Firth, Molly Casey, Safiyya Ingar, Ronald Pickup, Matthew James Thomas, Jordan Coulson, Fode Simbo, Tony Maudsey, Adrian Edmondson, James Faulkner, Richard Cordery, Cai Brigden,

It takes a special kind of writer to be able to bring to focus the everyday item which we take for granted and then make it part of a story which employs all the finest elements of the dark forces that govern our lives and installs the direction in which a Government and its people are taking.

Summer Of Rockets. Television Review. full post

(581 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

Dark Angel. Television Review. (2016).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Joanne Froggatt, Alun Armstrong, Isla Mowbray, Laura Morgan, George Kent, Jonas Armstrong, Emma Fielding, Hayley Walters, John Hollingworth, Alexander McMonigle, Seamus O’Neill, John Bowler, Sam Hoare, Tom Varey, Penny Layden, George Potts, Paul Bentall, Isobel Dobson, Bill Fellows, Mike Burnside, Edward Gower, Niall Ashdown, Thomas Howes, Mark Underwood, Nigel Cooke, Jake Lawson, Jacob Anderton, Mark Holgate, Joanna Horton, Laura Jane Matthewson, Paul Brennen, Ferdy Roberts, Michael Culkin, Shaun Prendergast, Phil Cheadle.

Dark Angel. Television Review. (2016). full post

(702 words, estimated 2:48 mins reading time)

What We Do In The Shadows. Series One. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kavyan Novak, Natasia Demetriou, Matt Berry, Harvey Guillen, Mark Proksch, Doug Jones, Beanie Feldstein, Gloria Laino, Jake McDorman, Anthony Atamanuik, Alexandra Henrikson,  Kristen Schaal,  Nick Kroll, Taika Waititi, Ari Barker, Jemaine Clement, Tilda Swinton, Jessica B. Hill, Evan Rachel Wood, Danny Trejo, Wesley Snipes, Dave Bautista.

What We Do In The Shadows. Series One. Television Review. full post

(490 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Chernobyl. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard, Jessie Buckley, Emily Watson, Paul Ritter, Adam Nagaitis, Sam Troughton, Robert Emms, Karl Davies, Con O’Neill, Adrian Rawlins, David Dencik, Barry Keoghan, Ralph Ineson, Mark Lewis Jones, Ron Cook, Donald Sumpter, Alex Fearns, Jamie Sives.

Chernobyl. Television Review. full post

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

Hatton Garden. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Kenneth Cranham, Timothy Spall, David Hayman, Alex Norton, Brian F. O’ Byrne, Geoff Bell, Nasser Memarzia, Amira Ghazalla, Lucy Thackeray, Tom Christian, Thomas Coombes, T’Nia Miller, Paul Blackwell, Karl Farrer, Ian Puleston-Davies, Deborah Rock, Toni Thorpe.

Hatton Garden. Television Review. full post

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

Ghosts. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Charlotte Ritchie, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Martha Howe-Douglas, Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Lolly Adefope, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond, Katy Wix, Yani Xander, Jim Howick, Richard Durden, Ed Kear, Ania Marson, Anya McKenna-Bruce, Steve Oram, Tom Mackley, Paul Cawley, Peter Coe, Caoilfhionn Dunne, Caroline Guthrie, Geoffrey McGivern, Tim Plester, Sophie Thompson, Richard Thomson, Angela Yeoh, Simon Bubb, Rosie Cavaliero, Florian Schwienbacher, Simon Stache.

Ghosts. Television Series Review. full post

(573 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: Drawing Dead. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Bill Bailey, Ruby Bentall, Will Brown, Nicholas Burns, Ben Caplan, Nicholas Farrell, Eloise Joseph, Jemma Redgrave, Elana Saurel, Ellen Thomas, Joshua Williams, Heather Wright.

There was a time when teachers would look upon their pupil’s reading habits and consciously judge them accordingly, no matter how interested in the source material, the children’s ability to report on what they had read and the lessons learned from the text, the snobbery and direct condescension placed at the student’s desk as they admitted to reading comic books whilst their peers and friends got praise for having spent their weekend with their noses pretending to have insight into the world of ‘serious’ literature was short sighted and demeaning.

Midsomer Murders: Drawing Dead. Television Review. full post

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

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, Fog Of War/In For A Pound. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Julie Graham, Rachael Stirling, Crystal Balint, Chanelle Peloso, Ben Cotton, Jennifer Spence, Chelah Horsdal, Noel Johansen, Adrian Hough, Peter Benson, Kurt Max Runte, Michael Adamthwaite, Graeme Duffy, Candus Churchill, Raphael Kepinski.

The belief in playing to your strengths is one that is fraught with the acknowledgement that you might never improve in other areas, the whole notion of only ever drawing upon one set of ideals or inspiration is an anathema to writing, it stunts creativity and can lead to the permanent pigeon holing of your possible future endeavour. Yet for all that some conceding must take place when it considers the future of what could be a demanding series, in which the plot begs for a choice to made, one of social commentary or the mystery at hand.

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, Fog Of War/In For A Pound. Television Review. full post

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

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, Not Cricket/Iron In War. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Rachael Stirling, Julie Graham, Crystal Balint, Chanelle Pelaso, Ben Cotton, Jennifer Spence, Luke Camilleri, Graeme McComb, Wesley Salter, Agape Mngomezulu, Aria Birch, Eric Breker, Primo Allon, Jesse James, Matthew Smalley, Trevor Lerner.

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, Not Cricket/Iron In War. Television Review. full post

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

The Victim. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 9/10

Cast: Kelly Macdonald, James Harkness, John Hannah, Chloe Pirrie, Ramon Tikaram, Jamie Sives, Joanne Thomson, Pooky Quesnel, John Scougall, Cal MacAninch, Alison McKenzie, Nicholas Nunn, Karla Crome, Isis Hainsworth, Georgie Glen, Seylan Baxter, David Goodall, Zak Leyni, Caron Rae Brand.

We can never truly understand what goes through the mind of a murderer, for some it is a moment of insanity in which they cannot explain the event or their feelings towards the act in any manner that makes sense to the system or the potential psychiatrist who wishes to probe into the complexity of the situation; for others it is a marker, of dominance, of power, of holding a life in the grip of their hands and understanding full well the implications of their actions, and the possible thrill they get as they watch from a close enough distance their act being investigated.

The Victim. Television Review. full post

(593 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)