Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Chris Chalk, Shea Whigham, Tatiana Maslany, John Lithgow, Gayle Rankin, Nate Corddry, Veronica Falcon, Jefferson Mays, Andrew Howard, Eric Lange, Robert Patrick, Stephen Root, Lili Taylor, Matt Frewer, Diarra Kilpatrick, David Wilson Barnes, Taylor Nichols, Aaron Stanford, Molly Ephraim, Gretchen Mol, Jenny O’Hara, Justin Kirk.

For television viewers especially, a character is already drawn before they have had chance to them. All of the great protagonists have a history that unless we allow ourselves to dig deeper than what one medium lays out in stone, we never fully understand their actual motives and drives later on, the one moment that made them who they are when we introduced to them in all their pomp and glory.