Category Archives: TV

Dalgliesh: Cover Her Face. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Bertie Carvel, Allegra Marland, Sam Swainsbury, Parth Thakerar, Holly Castle, Ellora Torchia, Josie Walker, Soni Razdan, Jack Myers, Richard Doubleday, Oliver Woollford, Sara Powell, Allison Harding, Anne Bird, Andrew Tiernan, Alistair Brammer.

The country house murder, a staple of the detective writer’s handbook, no intriguing mind can resist, it seems setting at least one novel within the confines of the manor house and amongst the beating hearts of the rich and self-made and those that are required to serve them, are de rigueur for the armchair fans to tease out the insight to what makes the two classes mix with each other, despise one another, and ultimately it could be argued, protect one another when the time comes to draw forces against the police.

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

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Timothy Spall, Lilit lesser, Harry melling, Kate Philips, Jonathan Pryce, Richard Dillane, Karim Kadjar, Charlie Rowe, Joss Porter, Will Keen, Will Tudor, Lydia Leonard, Harriet Walker, Tom Mothersdale, Alex Jennings, Lucy Russell, James Larkin, Robert Wilfort, Thomas Arnold, Hannah Steele, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Corentin Fila, Viola Prettejohn, Jordan Kouamé, Agnes O’ Casey, Cecilia Appiah, Ellie de Lange, Hubert Burton, Pip Carter, Josef Altin, Sarah Priddy, Hannah Khalique-Brown, Amir El-Masry, German Segal, Tim Scragg, Summer Richards, Dana Herfurth, Claire Foy.

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(542 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Day Of The Jackal. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 9/10

Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch, Chuckwudi Iwuji, Lia Williams, Úrsula Corberó, Charles Dance, Corey Johnson, Eleanor Matsuura, Ben Hall, Jon Arias, Khalid Abdalla, Sule Rimi, Florisa Kamara, Nick Blood, Christy Meyer, Adoney Díaz Barajas, Saúl Díaz Barajas, Patrick Kennedy, Martin McDougall, Puchi Lagarde, Patrick O’Kane, Jonjo O’Neill, Kate Dickie, Adam James, Gerard Kearns, Russell Balogh, Richard Dormer, Andreas Jessen, Laura Checkley, Lucas Englander, Jan-Martin Müller, Péter Kálloy Molnár, Brian Caspe, Eddie Elks, Thomas Mraz, Philip Jackson, Michelle Newell.

Day Of The Jackal. Television Drama Review. full post

(535 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

Shetland. Series 9. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Alison O’ Donnell, Ashley Jensen, Steve Robertson, Lewis Howden, Anne Kidd, Angus Miller, Steve Miller, Ian Hart, Tibu Fortes, Stuart Campbell, Sarah MacGillivray, Jacob Ferguson, Robert Jack, Vincent Regan, Ross Anderson, Macleod Stephen, Tara Lee, Johannes Lassen, Nathalie Merchant, Ines Høysæter Asserson, Leroy Boone.

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(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

The Listeners. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Rebecca Hall, Ollie West, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Mia Tharia, Niamh McCann, Gayle Rankin, Amr Waked, Lucy Sheen, Karen Henthorn, Samuel Edward-Cook, Franc Ashman, Romy Kelleher, Akai Coleman, Lucy Chambers, Scotee, Shreya M. Patel, Kiruna Stamell, Ian Mercer, Delroy Brown, Anne Hornby, Jim Bligh, Emily Aston, Alice Kirkpatrick, George Lewis.

The Listeners. Television Drama Review. full post

(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Moonflower Murders. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Lesley Manville, Tim McMullan, Conleth Hill, Daniel Mays, Alexandros Logothetis, Adrian Rawlins, Pooky Quesnel, Will Tudor, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Rosealie Craig, Joanna Bacon, Thomas Coombes, Mark Gatiss, Wade Briggs, Rupert Evans, Amy Griffiths, Kostis Daskalakis, Liam Garrigan, Tim Plester, Kate Ashfield, Jeany Spark, Alec Secareanu, Claire Rushbrook, Matthew Beard, Martyn Ellis, Billie Gadsdon, Mitchell Robertson, Gay Soper, Aliona Baranova, Daniel Lapaine, Paul Dunphy, Vasilis Xenikakis, Davina Moon, Oliver Hubard, Shane G. Casey, Sanjeev Kohli.

Moonflower Murders. Television Drama Review. full post

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

Sweetpea. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Ella Purnell. Nicôle Lecky, Jon Pointing, Lorraine Burroughs, Jeremy Swift, Tim Samuels, Lydia Whitehead, Calam Lynch, Leah Harvey, Nitin Ganatra, Dustin Demri-Burns, Alexander Bellinfantie, Elliot Cable, Jessys Romeo, Lucy Heath, Jessica Brindle, Dino Kelly, Ingrid Oliver, Olivia Brady, Alexandra Dowling, Amelie Bea Smith, Lily Morales-Lee, Coco Sully, Judi Love, Rachel Lumberg, Luke McGibney, Marissa Hussain, Matthew Hawksley, Gillian Axtell, Omar Ibrahim, Luke Kempner, Sam Ducane.

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(525 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Frasier. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Jack Cutmore-Scott, Toks Olagundoye, Jess Salgueiro, Anders Keith, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Peri Gilpin, Patricia Heaton, Jimmy Dunn, Kevin Daniels, Renee Pezzotta, Parvesh Cheena, Nike Doukas, Amy Sedaris, Harriet Sansom Harris, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jorsy Cass, Rachel Bloom, Greer Grammer, Andrew Leeds, Dan Butler, Rafael Cebrián, Giovanni Chambers, Edward Hibbert, Angelique Cabral, Robert Mammana, Eden Rose, Carol Burnett, Tiffany C. Adams.

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

Penguin. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Colin Farrell, Cristin Milioti, Rhenzy Feliz, Deirdre O’Connell, Theo Rossi, Clancy Brown, Carmen Ejogo, Daniel J. Watts, David H. Holmes, Michael Kelly, Myles Humphus, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Kenzie Grey, Robert Lee Leng, Hunter Enery, Michael Zegan, Jared Abrahamson, James Madio, Tess Soltau, Joshua Bitton, Jessie Pinnick, Daren Donofrio, Scott Cohen, François Chau, Ade Otukoya, Craig Walker, Ben Cook, Aleska Palladino, Mark Strong, Con O’Neill, Ryder Allen.

Penguin. Television Drama Review. full post

(554 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: Dressed To Kill. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Claire Hingott, Felix Kai, Tessie Orange-Turner, Stewart Wright, Nigel Lindsay, Baxter Westby, LJ Johnson, Sophie Stone, Ace Bhatti, Suzanne Packer, Nichola McAuliffe, Isabel Shaw.

Murder is a drag, but lying through your teeth about another’s illness to gain support for a holiday can be seen as a crime more personal; so Dressed To Kill, the last episode of the 23rd series of the addictive Midsomer Murders series would have you believe.

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(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)