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Doctor Who: The Well. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Ncuti Gatwa, Varada Sethu, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Caoilfhionn Dunne, Christopher Chung, Annabel Brook, Luke Rhodri, Bethany Antonia, Gaz Choudhry, Gary Pillai, Franki Lipman, Paul Kasey, Jermaine Dominique, Anita Dobson, Amy Tyger, Meg Abernethy-Hope, Beyagy Demba, Umit Gozuacik.

There are episodes of Doctor Who that rank so highly that they will not be forgotten, and they all have one major thread in common, that of the near unseen ubiquitous horror that waits just out of sight or that possesses the power to control from within; all other villains of the tales from the blue box are to be feared, but they, these unseen beings that wonderfully spread dread in their wake, they are the truth of terror given the confidence of anxiety.

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(512 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

House Of The Dragon. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Matt Smith, Ewan Mitchell, Simon Russell Beale, Tom Glynn-Carney, Fabian Frankel, Steve Toussaint, Rhys Ifans, Sonya Mizuno, Matthew Needham, Jefferson Hall, kurt Egyiawan, Eve Best, Paddy Considine, Paul Kennedy, Phil Daniels, Harry Collett, Max Wrottesley, Bethany Antonia, Anthony Flanagan, Phia Saban, Phoebe Campbell, Nicholas Jones, Vincent Regan, Freddie Fox.

It’s never what was is in the presentation, it is always what is excluded that leaves the viewer, the expectant fan aghast at the omission of what could have been, and the counter narrative that suggests a different conclusion to those paid, employed to deliver the freedom of the story in the best way they see fit.

House Of The Dragon. Series Two. Television Review. full post

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

Nolly. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Con O’Neill, Augustus Prew, Mark Gatiss, Antonia Bernath, Chloe Harris, Lloyd Griffiths, Richard Lintern, Bethany Antonia, Clare Foster, Emily Butcher, Matt Crosby, Emily Langham, Adele Taylor, Adam Morris, Kerry Washington, Sophie Lucas, Philip Gascoyne, Max Brown, Paulo Braghetto, Tim Wallers.

For anybody who had not yet opened their eyes and stared at the fuzzy images of life at a time when even five terrestrial stations seemed excessive, to find out that there were simple homegrown programmes that could command such loyalty of viewers that over 15 million people would tune in and watch convoluted plots and the now famous ‘wonky sets’, they would consider it a preposterous notion, absurd nostalgia that could not be true.

Nolly. Television Drama Review. full post

(497 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)