Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles, Bally Gill, Ben Daniels, Suzanne Andrade, Esme Appleton, Jake Cecil, Christopher Geary, Khetphet Phagnasay, Yung Nguyen, Andrew Van Wilpe, Matej Strunc, Jan Hofman, Ben Bradshaw, Jordan Unachukwu, Genevieve Dunne, Sigismund Häggkvist, Rebecca Riisness, Roxane Duran, Luke Brandon Field, Justin Kirk, Ed Birch.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Eric Bogosian, Assad Zaman, Bailey Bass, Kalyne Coleman, Chris Stack, Christian Robinson, Rae Dawn Chong, Maura Grace Athari, Roxane Duran, John DiMaggio, Jeff Pope, Dana Gourrier, Rachel Alana Handler, Rudy Eisenzopf, Kyle Roussel.
There is a difference between glitz and style, one not often noted upon when there is money thrown at glitz as if it were the smart prospect in the room because it has the big name behind it, bravado mistaken for confidence, arrogance confused with grace, and one that can be the ruin of a franchise before it even starts; for in humility the viewer immersed in a series created on the back of one of the best selling books of all time will be enthralled and not overwrought with the smell of perfume disguising the smell of rotten meat.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Emily Watson, Ben Chaplin, Mark Bonnar, Susan Lynch, Olivia Vinall, Stephen Elder, Jack Hamilton, Syreeta Kumar, Assad Zaman, Kezia Burrows, Steffan Rhodri, Adeel Akhtar, Rhashan Stone, Lydia Leonard, Nick Sampson, Frances Tomelty, Laure Stockley, Sebastian Armesto, Denise Gough, Adrian Lukis.
The problem with putting on a drama on the television, no matter how well intentioned, is that in some respects the pace of the script feels disjointed, it can either be too fast and therefore lose the viewer’s attention by being overly complicated or too slow and then being the type of programme in which the person enduring the ongoing situation is forced to believe that many of the scenes or characters could have been cut or not bothered with at all.