Category Archives: TV

The Sympathizer. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Hoa Xuande, Robert Downey Jr., Fred Nguyen Khan, Vy Le, Phan Gia Nhat Linh, Tom Dang, Toan Le, Tien Pham, Duy Nguyen, Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen, Scott Ly, Alan Trong, Kieu Chinh, Sandra Oh, Joseph Hieu, Diem Truong, Quinn Hoàng, VyVy Nguyen, David Duchovny.

Each nation arguably has fought a war that they seem to be forever obsessed with, one that routinely sneaks into the art and the conscious on offer, a kind of reminder of ‘The finest hour’ and the call for a patriotic stance in the face of a different adversity or gruelling national crisis.

The Sympathizer. Television Review. full post

(531 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Rebus. Television Series Review. (2024).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Richard Rankin, Brian Ferguson, Stuart Bowman, Lucie Shorthouse, Amy Manson, Caroline Lee-Johnson, Noof Ousellam, Thoren Ferguson, Neshla Caplan, Aston McAuley, Andrew John Tait, Nick Rhys, Aiden Connell, Michelle Duncan, Cassidy Little, Terance Rae, Sean Buchanan, Mia McKenzie, Cailean Galloway, Ryan Hayes, Patrick O’Brien, Craig Mclean, Seamus McLean Ross, Melissa Collier, Gilly Gilchrist, Ami Okumura Jones.

Rebus. Television Series Review. (2024). full post

(493 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

The Responder. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Martin Freeman, Adelayo Adedayo, Josh Finan, Emily Fairn, Warren Brown, Faye McKeever, MyAnna Buring, Mark Womack, Philip Shaun McGuinnes, Bernard Hill, Adam Nagaitis, Romi Hyland-Rylands, Matthew Cottle, Kevin Eldon, Shaun Fagan, Lenny Wood, Eithne Browne, John McGrellis.

The Responder. Series Two. Television Drama Review. full post

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

The Outlaws. Series Three. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Rhianne Baretto, Darren Boyd, Gamba Cole, Jessica Gunning, Clare Perkins, Eleanor Tomlinson, Grace Calder, Stephen Merchant, Kojo Kamara, Charles Babalola, Christopher Walken, Tom Hanson, Ian McElhinney, Claes Bang, Rhys Yates, Patrick Robinson, Nicholas Rowe, Harry Trevaldwyn, Richard E. Grant, Matilda Ziegler.

If there is somebody to whom can bring a group of well-intentioned misfits be people that you want to be friends with, then Stephen Merchant is to be considered a master of the art.

The Outlaws. Series Three. Television Drama Review. full post

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

The Red King. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Anjli Mohindra, James Bamford, Marc Warren, Mark Lewis Jones, Lu Corfield, Adjoa Andoh, Sam Swainsbury, Rosie Sheehy, Maeve Courtier-Lilley, Dylan Jones, Lloyd Meredith, Lauren Morais, Tuyen Do, Jim Kitson, Oliver Ryan, Aled ap Steffan, Wayne Cater, Connor Calland, Issey King, Andrew Dunn, Harry Hepple, Jill Halfpenny.

The Red King. Television Drama Review. full post

(490 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

The Gathering. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Warren Brown, Eva Morgan, Sonny Walker, Sadie Soverall, Vinette Robinson, Richard Coyle, Jodie McNee, Luca Kamleh-Chapman, Ryan Quarmby, Oliver Nelson, Mia Johnson, Rob Jarvis, Poppy Miller, Charlie Griffiths, Christine Tremarco, Deborah Bouchard, Emma Keele, Mia Carragher, Emma Bispham, Michael Ledwich.

The pressure we are placing on our children as we live vicariously through their actions is almost as dangerous as the situations and times that we find ourselves in as we stumble through the last few years with unresolved anger and resentment banging on our doors as negativity, as jealousy and creativity clash in a way that we perhaps arguably as a species have never faced before.

The Gathering. Television Drama Review. full post

(411 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Blue Lights: Series Two Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Nathan Braniff, Sian Brooke, Katherine Delvin, Martin McCann, Frankie McCafferty, Andi Osho, Hannah McClean, Joanne Crawford, Jonathan Harden, Andrea Irvine, Desmond Eastwood, Abigail McGibbon, Dearbháille McKinney, Seamus O’Hara, Craig McGinlay, Alfie Lawless, Matthew Forsythe, Chris Corrigan, Derek Thompson, Alfie Lawless, Paddy Jenkins.

We consider ourselves at the very least to be policed by consent, it is almost a statement of agreed terms and boundaries, which sometimes overlaps, sometimes moved by one faction, either in rebellion or by government insistence, but one to which for the most part the sight of Blue Lights flashing can be a comfort when we have been wronged, when another decides to not only blur the lines between criminal acts but to actively destroy your safety by setting fire to every law known.

Blue Lights: Series Two Television Review. full post

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

Superman & Lois: Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Alex Garfin, Erik Valdez, Inde Navarrette, Wolé Parks, Dylan Walsh, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Sofia Hasmik, Tylor Buck, Daisy Tormé, Joselyn Picard, Leeah Wong, Zane Clifford, Austin Anozie, Danny Wattley, Samantha Di Francesco, Dee Jay Jackson, Pavel Romano, Michael Bishop, Chad L. Coleman, Monique Phillips, Victoria Katongo, Eric Keenleyside, Michael Cudlitz, Kelcey Mawema.

Superman & Lois: Series Three. Television Review. full post

(584 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

Red Eye. Television Drama Series.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Jing Lusi, Richard Armitage, Lesley Sharp, Jemma Moore, Dan Li, Cash Holland, Tai Yin Chan, Thomas Chaanhing, Mido Hardada, Aiden Cheng, Lucianne McEvoy, Jonathan Aris, Xiangyi Tan, Steph Lacey, Parker Sawyers, Daphne Cheung, Elaine Tan.

The detective drama could be said to have eaten itself, a truth of this can be found in its ever-increasing ways in searches for a way to be unique, to have the ‘room’ in which the murder occurs be as far from the drawing room mystery of old as possible, and perhaps be almost considered at times to be more concerned with the seemingly unerring device rather than the character of the piece.

Red Eye. Television Drama Series. full post

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

A Gentleman in Moscow. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Ewan McGregor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Johnny Harris, Leah Harvey, John Heffernan, Lyès Salem, Daniel Cerqueira, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Dee Ahluwalia, Fehinti Balogun, Anastasia Hille, Anna Madeley, Lily Newmark, Alexa Goodall, Jason Forbes, Billie Gadsdon, Penny Downie, Leah Balmforth, Gabriel Robinson, Damian Rozanek, Matilda Hunt, Rob Jarvis, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Paul Ready, Beau Gadsdon.

A Gentleman in Moscow. Television Drama Review. full post

(567 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)