Tag Archives: Brendan Patricks

Grace: Want You Dead. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Simm, Richie Campbell, Craig Parkinson, Laura Elphinstone, Brad Morrison, Zoë Tapper, Scott Handy, Brendan Patricks, Rebecca Scroggs, Clare Calbraith, Sam Hoare, Jake Needs, Renny Krupinski, Carolina Valdes, Ray Emmet Brown, Jessica Hayles, Wendy Albiston, Nicky Goldie, Alan Wilyman, Lydia Danistan, Niall Greig Fulton, Ben Crowe, Baker Mukasa, Oisin Stack, Jan Le.

Murder can be straightforward, its often black and white, occasionally grey lines will blur within, but it always frank, sincere, almost uncomplicated; it is the action of emotions, but always without the desire to hide the reason when the culprit is identified; and whilst the response, the detection and the puzzle solved is shrouded in misdirection and distraction, murder is relatively easy to commit.

Traitors. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Emma Appleton, Michael Stuhlbarg, Keeley Hawes, Luke Treadaway, Brandon P. Bell, Matt Lauria, Simon Kunz, Greg McHugh, Albert Welling, Jamie Blackley, Robert Goodale, David Hargreaves, Phoebe Nicholls, Owen Teale, Cara Horgan, Nikhil Parmar, Brendan Patricks, Nick Harris, Peter Pacey, Chloe Harris, Edward Bluemel, Patrick Joseph Byrnes, Joe Corrigall, Rocco Day, Ashley McKinney Taylor, Tim Ahern, Tom Ashley, Jed Aukin, Kieran Buckeridge, Billy Burke, Andrew Byron, Finney Cassidy, Sam Hoare.

Doctor Who, The Crimson Horror. Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Matt Smith, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Dame Diana Rigg, Rachael Stirling, Neve McIntosh, Cartrin Stewart, Dan Starkey, Eve de Leon Allen, Kassius Carey Johnson, Brendan Patricks, Graham Turner, Olivia Vinall, Michelle Tate, Scott Stevenson, Jack Oliver Hudson.

The Crimson Horror, the type of tale that would make readers of Victorian melodrama and penny dreadful salivates with the expectation of a reader enjoying Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the first time, transpose this expectation to the type of Doctor Who-lite story, add a splash of immense acting royalty from Dame Diana Rigg and her superb daughter, the incredible Rachael Stirling and it becomes not just Doctor-lite but extra-lite, no additives, no fat, just a wonderful story that was edging on the macabre  that writer Mark Gatiss obviously enjoys.