Tag Archives: Charlene McKenna

Ripper Street, Episode One, Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, Myanna Buring, Charlene McKenna, Jonathon Barnwell, David Wilmot, Ian Bannon, David Dawson.

London’s Whitechapel district is never far from a source of inspiration when it comes to gruesome tales, especially when it comes to its down at heel and salubrious past. Things may have improved in the 130 years since Jack the Ripper stalked its alleyways but in the 1880’s the police and the public were under siege by evil and danger that masqueraded itself as decency. The latest B.B.C. television series to look at the way Victorian detectives dealt with the disorder and death of the times is the tremendous Ripper Street.

Ripper Street, Episode One, Television Review. B.B.C. Television. full post

(393 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Ripper Street, Episode Two. Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring, Charlene McKenna, Amanda Hale, Jonathon Barnwell, David Wilmot, Michael Smiley, Hugh O’ Conor, Giacomo Mancini, Joe Gilgun.

When it comes to British crime drama, you don’t get much better than basing the story on real events or authentic people and by placing in it in the sometimes squalid and mean streets of late Victorian era Whitchapel, it surely should be a ratings winner. Ripper Street continues the superb start it made in episode one and brings the claustrophobic, disease ridden and above the law contempt even closer to home in the second episode, In My Protection.

Ripper Street, Episode Two. Television Review. B.B.C. Television. full post

(355 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Vienna Blood: Mephisto Waltz. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Ration 9/10

Cast: Matthew Beard, Juergen Maurer, Luise von Finckh, Charlene McKenna, Amelia Bullmore, Conleth Hill, Raphael von Bargen, Josef Ellers, Simon Hatzl, Miriam Hie, Robert Reinagl, Leonie Benesch, Ulrike Beimpold, Maria Köstlinger, Johannes Zeiler, Johannes Zirner, Stipe Erceg, Murathan Muslu, Stefan Pohl, Tobias Resch, Hagen Dürre, Larissa Fuchs, Rainer Galke, Rainer Wöss, Harald Taschner, Andreas Lust.

There should be mandatory lessons in the science and application of psychiatry to all as they turn to an age where they could be found being used by the system, by the covert machinations of the state and by the narcissistic intent of those seeking an agenda in which, if pushed, could see those same young people sent to a war they had no idea they were signing up to.

Vienna Blood: Mephisto Waltz. Television Drama Review. full post

(538 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Clean Sweep. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Charlene Mckenna, Barry Ward, Aiden McCann, Rhys Mannion, Katelyn Rose Downey, Jeanne Nicole Ni Áinle, Adam Fergus, Aoibheann McCann, Nathara Dayananda, Grace Collender, Cathy Belton, Benjamin Bergin, Robert Mitchell, Kevin Trainor, Orla Casey, Trevor Kaneswaran, Roisin Rankin, Ray Weafer, Sean Duggan, Joe Rooney, Oscar Nolan, Youssef Quinn, Tristan Heanue, Breffni Clack, Steve Gunn, Maeron Libomi, Niall Bishop, Bernadette Carty, Fergus Mulligan.

How far we go to erase our part in a moral and societal transgression is purely at the conscious of our very being. This is especially true when we commit murder to cover up a murder.

Clean Sweep. Television Drama Review. full post

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

Vienna Blood: Deadly Communion. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Matthew Beard, Jurgen Maurer, Amelia Bullmore, Conleth Hill, Charlene McKenna, Luise von Finckh, Raphael von Bargan, Szonja Oroszlán, Lara Mandoki, Lisa Marie Pothoff, Nils Arzimann, Lujza Hajdú, Sara Schmitt, Jurgen Maurer, Josef Ellers, Robert Reinagl, Anna Kulbatzki, Victoria Nikolaaevskaj, Ákos Inotay, Markus Freistätter, Luise von Finckh, Xaver Hutter, David Rott, Dániel Kozma, Miriam Hie, Rainer Egger, Péter Végh, Raphael von Bergen, Zsófia Bach, Attila Arpa, Ilvie Moritz, Maria Köstlinger, Laura Podlovica, Lilla Czvikker, Mara Romel, Stefen Puntigam, Levente Törköly.

The fashion industry is murder.

Vienna Blood: Deadly Communion. Television Review. full post

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

Vienna Blood: Darkness Rising. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Matthew Beard, Jürgen Maurer, Alexander Absenger, Amelia Bullmore, Josef Ellers, Serge Falck, May Garzon, Lucy Griffiths, Miriam Hie, Conleth Hill, Nicolas Matthews, Charlene McKenna, David Oberkogler, Loenhard Srajer, Erwin Steinhauer, Florian Stetter, Florian Teichmeister, Raphael von Bergen, Luise von Finckh, Johannes Zeiler.

Vienna Blood: Darkness Rising. Television Review. full post

(474 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Vienna Blood: The Devil’s Kiss. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Matthew Beard, Jürgen Maurer, Astrit Alihaidaraj, Christoph Bittenauer, Heinz Arthur Boltuch, Amelia Bullmore, Haymon Maria Buttinger, Josef Ellers, Stipe Erceq, Larissa Fuchs, Lucy Griffiths, Simon Hatzl, Miriam Hie, Conleth Hill, Brigitte Karner, Charlene McKenna, Dajana Rajic, Robert Reinagl, Bernhard Schir, Florian Teichtmeister, Raphael von Bargen.

Vienna Blood: The Devil’s Kiss. Television Review. full post

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

Vienna Blood: The Melancholy Countess. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Matthew Beard, Jürgen Maurer, Conleth Hill, Charlene McKenna, Amelia Bullmore, Michael Dangl, Josef Ellers, Till Firit, Aaron Friesz, Michou Friesz, Nikolai Gemel, Lucy Griffiths, Miriam Hie, Sunnyi Melles, Corinna Pumm, Krista Stadler, Felix Stichmann, Oliver Stokowski, Florian Teichmeister, Raphael von Bargen, Luise von Finckh.

Vienna Blood: The Melancholy Countess. Television Review. full post

(557 words, estimated 2:14 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)

Death And Nightingales. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Matthew Rhys, Ann Skelly, Jamie Dornan, Valene Kane, Charlene McKenna, Martin McCann, Sean McGinley, Michael Smiley, Francis Magee, Des McAleer, Ciaran Flynn, Aoibheann Mullan, Paul Kennedy, Eugene O’Hare, Pip Torrens, Conor MacNeill, Frankie McCafferty.

Against the backdrop of the fight for radical Irish independence from Britain in the 19th Century, a story of corruption, betrayal and tragedy is neatly interwoven through a 24 hour period in the life of Beth Winters, a condensed down reflection of what was happening across the Irish Sea, the pride of individuality and freedom from what was arguably seen as a distant master, one who made all the rules but wanted to keep the people in chains, if not physically, then at least metaphorically.

Death And Nightingales. Television Review. full post

(422 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)