Category Archives: TV

Doctor Who: The Woman Who Fell To Earth. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, Sharon D. Clarke, Samuel Oatley, Jonny Dixon, Amit Shah, Asha Kingsley, Janie Mellor, Asif Khan, James Thackeray, Philip Abiodun, Stephen MacKenna, Everal A. Walsh.

Upstart Crow. Series Three, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: David Mitchell, Liza Tarbuck, Paula Wilcox, Harry Enfield, Helen Monks, Gemma Whelen, Tim Downie, Rob Rouse, Mark Heap, Dominic Coleman, Steve Spiers, Spencer Jones, Jocelyn Jee Esien, Adrian Edmondson, Rosanna Beacock, Joe Willis, Beattie Edmondson, Brandon Fellows, Ben Miller, Peter Hamilton Dyer, Ken Nwosu, Nigel Planer.

If there is one thing an audience can count on with Ben Elton, aside from being involved in some of television’s most iconic comedies in the last thirty years, it is his unequalled ability to take a moment and turn it completely on its head and leave you with the feeling of being driven over the edge emotionally, of having the laughter pulled from underneath you and understanding that with great comedy must come empathy and grief in equal measure.

Killing Eve. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * *

Cast: Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, Fiona Shaw, Kim Bodnia, Sean Delaney, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Owen McDonnell, David Haig, Darren Boyd, Ken Nwosu,  Sonia Elliman, David Agranov.

The world of spies and espionage is nothing without its major villain, it is the binding reassurance that the tussle between two equally determined people plays out in front of an audience who always seem to have the appetite for the resource of the cloak and dagger, the thinly veiled appreciation of a war that has enthralled readers and viewers alike for decades.

Bodyguard. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Richard Madden, Keeley Hawes, Gina McKee, Sophie Rundle, Paul Ready, Vincent Franklin, Stuart Bowman, Nina Toussaint-White, Stephanie Hyam, Tom Brooke, Matt Stokoe, Pippa Haywood, Nicholas Gleaves, Shubham Saraf, Claire-Louise Cordwell, Michael Schaeffer, Richard Riddell, David Westhead, Anji Mohindra.

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco. Charlotte’s Web/Madhouse. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Julie Graham, Rachael Stirling, Crystal Balint, Chanelle Peloso, Jennifer Spence, Jessica Harmon, Jordana Largy, Peter Benson, Sarah Smyth, Jesse Moss, Paul McGillion, Colin Lawrence, Luke Camilleri, Arron Craven, Emma Flemington, Andrew Neil McKenzie, Brendan Riggs, Ben Cotton.

Not all deaths are murders, some are just accidents, some have the sadness and heartbreak of suicide attached to them, and some are just unexplainable, they fall into the realm where Morpheus takes a gentle hand and eases the soul in its time of despair; not all deaths are murders but the ones that can be corrupted by the foul stench of profit and the act of greed are arguably amongst the most insidious to bear.

Picnic At Hanging Rock. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Natalie Dormer, Lily Sullivan, Lola Bessis, Harrison Gilbertson, Samara Weaving, Madeleine Madden, Inez Curro, Ruby Rees, Yael Stone, Philip Quest, Marcus Graham, James Hoare, Mark Coles Smith, Don Hany, Anna McGahan, Bethany Whitmore, Mayah Fredes, Alyssa Tuddenham, Kate Bedford, Markella Kavenagh, Johnny Pasvolsky, Emily Gruhl, Neil Melville, Nicholas Hope, John Flaus, Tom Hobbs, Aaron Glenane, Roslyn Gentle, Lee Cormie, Kate Box, Kaarin Fairfax, Sibylla Budd, Bruce R. Carter, Felix Johnson, Charlotte Steenbergen.

 

Hidden. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Rhodri Meilir, Sian Reese-Williams, Gwyneth Keyworth, Sion Alun Davies, Gillian Elisa, Nia Roberts, Ian Saynor, Victoria Pugh, Lowri Izzard, Garmon Rhys, Elodie Wilton, Owen Arwyn, Lara Catrin, Sarah Tempest, Lois Meleri-Jones, Rhodri Sion, Ioan Hefin, Mali Ann Rees, Megan Llyn, Melangell Dolma, Gwion Aled Williams, Morfudd Hughes, Jess Parsons, Manon Wilkinson, Gwydion Rhys, Beth Robert, Mari Rowland Hughes, John Pierce Jones, Wyn Bowen Harries, Mark Lewis Jones, Greta James.

War & Peace, Television Review. (2016).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Paul Dano, Lily James, James Norton, Jessie Buckley, Jack Lowden, Aisling Loftus, Tom Burke, Tuppence Middleton, Callum Turner, Adrian Edmondson, Rebecca Front, Greta Scacchi, Aneurin Barnard, Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rae, Brian Cox, Kenneth Cranham, Gillian Anderson, Jim Broadbent, Kate Phillips, Olivia Ross, Thomas Arnold, Adrian Rawlins, Ken Stott, David Quilter, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Otto Farrant, Chloe Pirrie, Rory Keenan, Terence Beasley, Pip Torrens, Guillaume Faure, Ludger Pistor.

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco: Presidio/Wake. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 7/10

Cast: Julie Graham, Rachael Stirling, Crystal Balint, Chanelle Peloso, Jennifer Spence, Peter Benson, Colin Lawrence, Agape Mngomezulu, Ben Cotton, Teach Grant, Nicholas Lea, Lydia King, Neil Grayston, Sarah-Jane Redmond.

The war may have ended but for many the fight went on, especially those women from every walk of life who fought to be recognised, rightly, as equals to their male colleagues who were doing the same job as them. The code breakers, the factory girls, the women working the land, the teachers and the everyday; a war was not just won in the fields, seas and air over Britain, Europe and the whole world, it was engaged and wrestled with in the homes, in the minds and experiences of those who stood up to the evil of Fascism and who wanted at all cost, for the country to survive.

Lethal Weapon: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Damon Wayans, Clayne Crawford, Jordana Brewster, Keesha Sharp, Kevin Rahm, Johnathan Fernandez, Michelle Mitchenor, Chandler Kinney, Dante Brown, Thomas Lennon, Hilarie Burton, Tony Plana, Andrew Patrick Ralston, Andrew Creer, Kristen Gutoskie, Rex Linn, Peter Coventry Smith, Chase Magnum, Sophia Woodward.

If there is an American drama that frames the modern situation on the streets of its major cities, then perhaps Lethal Weapon is the one that in the future television and society psychiatrists might look to as being the one that understands the dichotomy of its relaxed gun laws and the mess in which such lives are quite often driven into.