Category Archives: TV

Troy: Fall Of A City. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Louis Hunter, Bella Dayne, Joseph Mawle,  David Threlfall,   Christiaan Schoombie, Jonas Armstrong, David Avery, Carl Beukes, Garth Breytenbach, Alfred Enoch, Chris Fisher, David Gyasi, Johnny Harris, Lex King, Chloe Pirrie, Waldemar Schultz, Amy Louise Wilson, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Frances O’Connor, Tom Weston-Jones , Inge Beckmann, Shamilla Miller.

Keeping Faith. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Eve Myles, Mark Lewis Jones, Hannah David, Matthew Gravelle, Bradley Freegard, Mali Harries, Aneirin Hughes, Rhian Morgan, Eiry Thomas, Catherine Ayers, Alex Harries, Suzanne Packer, Betsan Llwyd, Kizzy Crawford, Colin Murtagh, Mark Preston, Menna Trussler, Pinar Ögün.

To trust someone is to understand their faults and understand that they may let you down, nobody is perfect after all and we all have the chance to be put in the way of temptation, be it in the way of sex, money or greed, we all the opportunity to be exploited for our mistakes and lack of at the time judgement, but it is to love someone when you know you might get hurt, when the foundations of their actions will cause you to see them in a different light.

Hamlet, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Andrew Scott, Jessica Brown Findlay, Angus Wright, Juliet Stevenson, David Rintoul, Barry Aird, Calum Finlay, Joshua Higgott, Elliot Barnes-Worrell, Marty Cruikshank, Amaka Okafor, Daniel Rabin, Luke Thompson, Peter Wright, Matthew Wynn.

There is always mileage in the heart of a universal play that means it never runs out of steam, it might falter and choke once in a while, it might be considered as bloated, overweight, have the wrong driver, be overwhelmed by passengers who contribute nothing to the aesthetics of the piece but on the whole it is one that often purrs along. The luxury on the outside replicated on the inside, the joy of seeing the production vehicle out on the road is a radiant sight and even when it is via the medium of television, the excitement and drama is one on which to celebrate.

Shetland: Series Four. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Douglas Henshall, Alison O’Donnell, Steven Robertson, Lewis Howden, Erin Armstrong, Mark Bonnar, Anne Kidd, Julie Graham,  Stephen Walters, Neve McIntosh, Sean McGinley, Amy Lennox, Fiona Bell, Sophie Stone, Gerard Miller, Allison McKenzie, Julia Brown, Arnmundur Ernst Björnsson, Carolin Stoltz, Eleanor Matsuura, Joi Johannsson, Hannah Donaldson, Michael Moreland.

Endeavour: Icarus. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Anton Lesser, Sean Rigby, Dakota Blue Richards, Lewis Peak, Caroline O’Neill, Phil Daniels, James Bradshaw, Abigail Thaw, Sara Vickers, Caroline Martin, Aldo Maland, Sam Clement, Jojo Macari, Lily Lesser, Michael Simkins, Felix Scott, Andrew Buckley, Barnaby Taylor, Xander Classey, Mark Arden, Louis Strong, Tom Paney, Anson Boon, Madeleine Worrall, David Jonsson Fray.

Endeavour: Quartet. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Sean Rigby, Anton Lesser, Dakota Blue Richards, Lewis Peek, James Bradshaw, Abigail Thaw, Sara Vickers, Caroline O’ Neil, Sam Clement, Phil Daniels, Madeleine Worrall, Caroline Martin, Aldo Maland, Jojo Macari, Lilly Lesser, Michael Simkins, Felix Scott, Andrew Buckley, Barnaby Taylor, Mark Arden, Louis Strong, Thomas Panay, Anson Boon, David James Fray.

 

If there is ever an emotive subject other than murder to bring into the world of the armchair detective, then it surely has to be the prospect of spies and counter espionage, the two realms of dark forces combined making a seemingly perfect storm in which to pit the wits against and to see who comes out on top; the writer or the viewer.

Collateral, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Carey Mulligan, Jeany Spark, Nicola Walker, John Simm, Nathaniel Martello-White, Ahd, Billie Piper, Kae Alexander, Hayley Squires, Judy Namir, Ben Miles, Orla Brady, Rob Jarvis, Mark Preston, George Georgiou, John Heffernan, Shawn Dixon, Lati Gbaja, Buppha Witt, Molly Simm, Nicola Duffett, Kim Medcalf, Vineeta Rishi, Siobhan McSweeney, Guy List, Richard McCabe, Tom Turner, Jacqueline Boatswain, Robert Portal, Alais Lawson, Brian Vernal, Deborah Findlay, Nick Mohammed, Tony Way, Alex Reid, Adrian Lukis.

Strike: Career Of Evil. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Burke, Holliday Granger, Andrew Brooke, Ben Crompton, Jessica Gunning, Matt King, Kerr Logan, Killian Scott, Neil Maskell, Kierston Wareing, Fern Deacon, Antonia Kinlay, Nicholas Agnew, Mollie Peacock, Cosima Shaw, Ann Akin, Suzanne Burden, Kirsty Dillon, Ella James, Emmanuella Cole, Archie Wrightman, Paul Butterworth, Joe Johnsey, Michelle Bonnard.

The human mind is such a complex organism that nobody quite understands, despite mountains of published papers and theories, why anyone would contemplate, let alone endeavour to make a career out of doing despicable acts, a vocation of evil.

Endeavour: Colours. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Sean Rigby, Anton Lesser, Dakota Blue Richards, Lewis Peek, James Bradshaw, Abigail Thaw, Sara Vickers, Caroline O’ Neil, Jack Bannon, Lee Armstrong, Greg Austin, Dominic Carter, Steven Elder, Claire Ganaye, Caroline GoodaLL, Marcus Griffiths, Leo Hatton, Sam Marks, Ian Pirie, Robert Portal, Jules Robertson, Rebecca Saire, William Scott-Masson, Ray Sesay, Bert Seymour, Dominic Thorburn.

 

Endeavour: Passenger. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Sean Rigby, Anton Lesser, Dakota Blue Richards, Lewis Peek, James Bradshaw, Abigail Thaw, Sara Vickers, Caroline O’ Neil,  Simon Scardifield, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Lydea Perkins, Judy Clifton, John Biggins, Edwin Thomas, Rosalie Craig, Simon Harrison, Thomas Coombes, Colin Mace, Hadley Fraser, Celeste Dodwell, Nicola Millbank, Justin Edwards, Jason Hall, Lizzy Watts, Mark Asante, Claire Ganaye, Leon Stewart.