Category Archives: TV

Passenger. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Wunmi Mosaku, David Threlfall, Rowan Robison, Barry Sloane, Natalie Gavin, Matilda Freeman, Ella Bruccoleri, Daniel Ryan, Jack James Ryan, Adian Nik, Sophie Ellicott, Hubert Hanowisz, Luke Ayres, Debbie Rush, Sean Gilder, Nico Mirallegro, Shelley Williams, Clare Burt, Gemma Wardle, Anna Tymoshenko, Neil Sandland, Shervin Alenabi, Terri-Ann Brumby, Ray Castleton, Synnove Karlsen, Harry Egan, Tom Lister, Karen Henthorn, Michael Hodgson, Richard McIver, Pam Shaw, Andrew Readman, Alexandra Hannant, Lisa Allen, Natalie Grady, Nadia Albuna, David Atkins, Elijah Braik, Kirsty Hoiles, Narinder Samra, Alejandra Becelar Pereira.

Passenger. Television Drama Review. full post

(502 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Coma. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Jason Watkins, Jonas Armstrong, Claire Skinner, David Bradley, David Mumeni, Joe Barber, Matilda Firth, Darren Strange, Kayla Meikle, Adrienn Réti, Craige Els, Caroline Boulton, Dan Code, Anita Major, Ralph Berkin, Sagar Arya, Kwadwo Kwateng, Shila Bentley.

For the majority of us, avoiding conflict is a day to day occupation, we have turned our eyes away from the bullying and intimidation on our streets, and the wonder why cannot face the moral questions of the massacre of a people a few thousand miles away; one action is a direct response to the suffering on any scale…we don’t wish to get involved lest the eyes of evil in all its forms fall upon us and we become the next target.

Coma. Television Drama Review. full post

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

Our Flag Means Death. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Rhys Darby, Taika Waititi, Joel Fry, Samson Kayo, Matthew Maher, Nathan Foad, Samba Schutte, Con O’Neill, Vico Ortiz, Kristian Nairn, David Fane, Ewen Bremner, Nat Faxon, Madeleine Sami, Leslie Jones, Ruibo Qian, Anapela Polataivao, Michael Crane, Erroll Shand, Amanda Grace Leo, Rachel House, Minnie Driver, Mark Mitchinson, Bronson Pinchot.

History in the hands of the wilfully uneducated or the fool is in danger of being erased and found to be redacted as a matter of course; but in the hands of a genius who plays with the world through the medium of satire and graceful humour, it can lead the intended target to a place of discovery and the realm of unending treasure.

Our Flag Means Death. Series Two. Television Review. full post

(442 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Miss Scarlet And The Duke. Series 4. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kate Phillips, Stuart Martin, Evan McCabe, Cathy Belton, Simon Ludders, Felix Scott, Paul Bazely, Tim Chipping, Stephen Boxer, Tim Downie, Matija Zivkovic, Florence Roberts, Lu Corfield, Igor Borojevic, Al Weaver, Rachel Dale, Ognjen Nikola Radulovic, Curtis Kantsa, Oliver Chris, Katherine Manners, Jonathan Rhodes, Laura Marcus, Antonio Scarpa, Ivan Tomic, Paul Kennedy, Matthew Steer, Alexandra Hannant.

Miss Scarlet And The Duke. Series 4. Television Review. full post

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

Doctor Who: Stranded 2. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Paul McGann, Nicola Walker, Hattie Morahan, Rebecca Root, Tom Price, Tom Baker, Oscar Batterham, Stewart Clarke, Jeremy Clyde, Jon Culshaw, Joel James Davison, Annabelle Dowler, Ewan Goddard, Avita Jay, Anjli Shaw-Parker, Homer Todiwala, Venice Van Someren, Amina Zia.

Time and memory are not always compatible bed follows. Quite often the two fight each other for the supremacy of the human experience, one taking from the other without a second thought, almost at war in terms of progression.

Doctor Who: Stranded 2. Big Finish Audio Drama Review. full post

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

The Marlow Murder Club. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Samantha Bond, Jo Martin, Cara Horgan, Natalie Dew, Mark Frost, Holli Dempsey, Rita Tushingham, Niall Costigan, Ian Barritt, Daniel Lapaine, Juliet Howland, Phill Langhorne, Sophia Ally, Tijan Sarr, Molly Hanson, Phillipa Peak, Teagan Imani, Matthew Bates, Ella Kenion, Rufus Wright, Umit Ulgen, Rishi Nair, Ethan Quinn, Amelia Valentina Pankhania, Yiannis Vassilakis, Mark Fleishmann, Matt Green, Edward Howells, Sherise Blackman, Eleanor Nawal, Tristan Sturrock, Kim Wall.

When strangers on a train conspire to murder, what the universe experiences is an unbalance, a sense of unhinged instability that such souls could act as each other’s alibi to cause harm and confound the restoration of balance.

The Marlow Murder Club. Television Drama Review. full post

(609 words, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Stranded – 1. Big Finish Audio Drama Boxset Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Paul McGann, Nicola Walker, Hattie Morahan, Rebecca Root, Tom Price, Tom Baker, Aurora Burghart, Jeremy Clyde, Alan Cox, Joel James Davison, Raj Ghatak, Robert Portal, David Shaw-Parker, Clive Wood, Amina Zia.

You may love somewhere and proudly call it a home from home, a favourite place to be, an affinity with the locals, a connection with its history; but if you find that you have become Stranded, marooned upon its beaches because your mode of transport has given up the ghost and no sign of rescue is forthcoming; then your paradise, that one place you like to visit and catch up with its inhabitants can suddenly turn into a world of dull routine, your visit now a land of disagreeable anecdotes as you understand the point of view by those always trapped in the grey where once you saw colour.

Doctor Who: Stranded – 1. Big Finish Audio Drama Boxset Review. full post

(521 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Sexy Beast. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: James McArdle, Emun Elliott, Sarah Greene, Stephen Moyer, Tamsin Grieg, Eliza Bennett, John Dagleish, Paul Kaye, Clea Martin, Peter Ferdinando, Robbie Gee, Nicholas Nunn, Lex Shrapnel, Barry Castagnola, Stanley Morgan, Nitin Ganatra, David Kennedy, Cally Lawrence, Michael Obiora, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Clare Burt, Megan Morgan, Hannah van der Westhuysen, Nicola Wright, Ralph Brown, Andy Eadie, Javier Ramos.

Sexy Beast. Television Drama Review. full post

(410 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

The Patient. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Steve Carrell, Domhnall Gleeson, Linda Emond, Andrew Leeds, Laura Niemi, Alan Blumenfeld, Alex Rich, David Alan Grier.

The measure of our guilt is such that we no longer seek out absolution and forgiveness from a member of the clergy, we seek enlightenment to the course of our actions from someone who can glean through analysis and psychotherapy that our engagements are not our responsibility; the cop out of our times that leads to blaming others and leading to a discordant view of reality.

The Patient. Television Drama Review. full post

(436 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

True Detective: Night Country. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jodie Foster, Kali Reis, Fiona Shaw, Finn Bennett, Isabella Star LaBlanc, Christopher Eccleston, John Hawkins, Dervla Kirwan, Anna Lambe, L’xeis Diane Benson, Aka Niviâna, Joel D. Montgrand, Owen McDonnell, Erling Eliasson.

Although it is unwritten, a good detective will know instinctively when the need to turn away from the letter of the law is good for the community, when the reveal of the truth will play into the hands of those with evil intent and not the victims who suffered under the yoke of oppression, be it corporate or personal.

True Detective: Night Country. Television Drama Review. full post

(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)