Tag Archives: Steve Pemberton

The Hack. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: David Tennant, Robert Carlyle, Toby Jones, Rose Leslie, Eve Myles, Nadia Albina, Mark Stobbart, Katherine Kelly, Kevin Doyle, Sophie Bould, Daniel Ryan, Dougray Scott, Barry Sloane, Rosealie Craig, Lee Ingleby, Neil Maskell, Jay Simpson, Rocky Marshall, Jamie Parker, Ian Burfield, Richard Pepple, Dolly Gadsdon, Pip Torrens, George Russo, Steve Pemberton, Ron Cook, Georgia Jay, Andrew Lancel, Nicholas Rowe, Adrian Lester, Lisa McGrillis, Jonathan Aris, Lucy Speed, Steve Waddington, Nigel Lindsay, Nicola Stephenson, Robert Bathurst, Robert Glenister, Paul Kaye, Lara Pulver, Sean Pertwee, Jonathan Coy, Lisa Dillon, Cara Theobold, Phil Davis.

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(733 words, estimated 2:56 mins reading time)

High Cockalorum. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Monica Dolan, Goldie Crane.

The strangest of encounters often make for the finest stories to be told, the random, the most unexpected, the implausibly surprising, these intersecting stumbling’s into another’s orbit are to be cherished by all as they prove a truth of life, that those we meet in a one off moment in time have been placed before us to perhaps make an amends elsewhere in our lives; this truth is expanded when it comes to those we perceive as an idol, a hero maybe, someone to whom we look to as a star in our eyes and who we know so much about, but who might only be in our lives for less than a day.

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(481 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Whitechapel. Television Review. Series Three, Episode Four.

Originally published by L.S. Media. February 20th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating * * * *

Cast: Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davies, Steve Pemberton, Claire Rushbrook, Sam Stockwell, Ben Bishop, Hannah Walters, Jacqueline Roberts, Camilla Power.

The continuity announcer said before the start of the second part of the second story of Whitechapel, that some viewers may find some scenes upsetting, she might have well as ushered into the phrase, “and you’ll kick yourself for not realising who the killer is.” Such were the latent and subtle clues strewn throughout this final part that it was easy to forget the one fleeting and seemingly innocuous moment in the first episode where the murderer was revealed.

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(447 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Whitechapel. Television Review. Series Three, Episode Three.

Originally published b y L.S.Media. February 13th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating * * * *

Cast: Rupert Penry Jones, Phil Davies, Steve Pemberton, Claire Rushbrook, Sam Stockwell, Ben Bishop, Hannah Walters, Jacqueline Roberts, Camilla Power.

Series three of Whitechapel continues with the gruesome premise of a murderer and the brutality of dismemberment. The scene is set by that other act of social discourse and interaction that some can find squeamish and sends shudders down the spines of the strongest of police officers, namely the spectacle of a family christening attended by those family and friends who you never see except when there’s free drinks on offer by the host. Given the choice I think I’d rather investigate another of those historical patterned murders, no matter how insidious, than ever have to wipe new born baby sick of a freshly ironed shirt.

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(631 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Whitechapel. Series Three, Episode Two. Television Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. February 7th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating * * * *

Cast: Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis, Steve Pemberton, Sam Stockman, Claire Rushbrook, Shaun Evans, Christina Chong, David Schneider, James Dreyfus.

Just who exactly is watching you? One side of the argument could be the state, the police, Neighbourhood Watch! The other is the person you let in to read the electricity meter, the furniture delivery man or the amiable builder who happened to make something of that spare space.

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

Whitechapel. Series 3, Episode 1. Series 3, Episode 1.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 31st 2012.

L.S. Media Rating * * * *

Cast: Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davies, Steve Pemberton, Claire Rushbrook.

If you are a fan of the whole historical story of Whitechapel, the abundance of dark characters that litter and parade through the East End of London’s dark and dismal past like a proverbial Mister Hyde to the City and the West End’s Dr. Jekyll, then the modern detective story of Whitechapel and its mismatched team of detectives is just the return you have waited for.

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(551 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Inside No.9.: The Last Weekend. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Sheila Reid.

“Beware the fury of a patient man”.

The question of how long and how far you would go in order to exact revenge on the one that destroyed you is one that is dangled before us in the darkness, perhaps whispered by a friend when the Devil is on their shoulder, the one who wants to know just how far you are prepared to go so they can either aid you, or have their statement and story ready when the police come knocking on their own door.

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(489 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Inside No.9 : Love Is A Stranger. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Claire Rushbrook, Frances Barber, Matthew Horne, Asim Chaudhry.

The insular and the perpetually lonely, the shy and the sexually sly, have never had it so good when it comes to the advent of online dating. As near to anonymity as it is possible to go, the filters, the regulations, the privacy, all is in favour of finding the one, the perfect match which little engagement and effort; for nobody expects to find love online, no one imagines unearthing the one to die for in such a short space of time.

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(459 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Inside No.9: Mother’s Ruin. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Anita Dobson, Phil Daniels.

It’s too late to ask your parents to reveal their secrets when they have left this mortal coil, but what lengths would you go to ask them for the truth when they are in Heaven or Hell, or the Limbo in between.

In typical resounding style, Inside No.9’s Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith take the opportunity to delve into the realm of the nightmare and the visionary in the latest episode of the successfully long running series, wonderfully titled, Mother’s Ruin.

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(383 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Inside No.9: The Bones of St. Nicholas. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Simon Callow, Shobna Gulati.

Never mind Halloween, if you want to feel the chill of fear wrap its clawed hand around your heart and mind, then Christmas is the time in which the intoxication of the spirit is more than just filling a glass of your favourite tipple, it is the beginning and the end of all things rational.

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(449 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)