Tag Archives: Sam Hoare

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.

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(480 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Grace: Dead Man’s Time. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: John Simm, Richie Campbell, Robert Glenister, Craig Parkinson, Laura Elphinstone, Zoë Tapper, Clare Calbraith, Carolyn Pickles, Kem Hassan, Laura Aikman, Jennifer Macbeth, Ash Hunter, Miranda Heath, Brad Morrison, Neil Hobbs, Niall Greig Fulton, Alan Mahon, Jonny Magnanti, Sarah Leigh, Jensen Clayden, Alan Mooney, Bleu Landau, Phoebe Mulhall, Michelle Connolly, Rebecca Scroggs, Jessica Ellerby, Maria Crittell, Gordon Kennedy, Grant Burgin, Alan Turkington, David Sterne, Sam Hoare, Caroline Valdés, Henry Miller.

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

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kate Phillips, Stuart Martin, Ansi Kabia, Evan McCabe, Felix Scott, Sophie Robertson, Brian Bovell, Cathy Belton, Simon Ludders, Sam Hoare, Tim Chipping, Tafline Steen, Greg Haiste, Robert Wilfort, Emma Gojkovic, Joseph May, Will Merrick, Tamsin Newlands, Liz Crowther, James Barriscale.

There are detective series that stand out for an entirely different reason than that which are forever hoping to attain.

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

(425 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Death Of An Expert Witness. (2023). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Bertie Carvel, Carlyss Peer, Richard Harrington, Sam Hoare, Margaret Clunie, Deborah Findlay, Dominic Rowan, David Hargreaves, Lara Cohen, Ezra Carlisle, Chris Robinson, Stuart Graham, Perry Millward, Alyth Ross, Carolina Main, Debbie Chazen, Francis Mezza, Conor Hinds, Shanaya Rafaat.

What passes for love can bring a person to their knees, and what love can destroy, so its darker emotional sibling, jealousy, can murder.

Death Of An Expert Witness. (2023). Television Review. full post

(447 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Grace: Dead Like You. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Simm, Zoë Tapper, Craig Parkinson, Richie Campbell, Laura Elphinstone, Brad Morrison, Clare Calbraith, Boni Adeliyi, Andy Apollo, Rakie Ayola, Lizzie Back, Steve Broad, Joanna Brookes, Eliot Cable, Charlotte Christof, Alexander Cobb, Darcy Collins, Thomas Coombes, Rai Endah, Heather Ann Foster, Ernest Gromov, Darragh Hand, Robert Hands, Molly Harris, Jo Herbert, Sam Hoare, Rob Jarvis, Claudia Jolly, Max Krupski, Kiera Lester, Sibylla Meienberg, Henry Miller, Luke Norris, Jack Pierce, Tyler-Jo Richardson, Rebecca Scoggs, Nicholas Tizzard, Ben Wiggins, Charlotte Workman, Jay Oliver Yip.

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

The Capture. Television Review. Series Two.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Holliday Grainger, Paapa Essiedu, Ben Miles, Lia Williams, Ron Perlman, Cavin Clerkin, Ginny Holder, Nigel Lindsay, Peter Singh, Lewis Kirk, Daisy Waterstone, Charlie Murphy, Indira Varma, Andy Nyman, Tessa Wong, Natalie Drew, Joseph Arkley, Harry Michell, Keira Chansa, Jack Sandle, Rob Yang, Joseph Steyne, Darren Bancroft, Angus Wright, Claire Price, Sam Hoare, Chris Corrigan, Ocean M Harris, Amy Conachan, Gemma Dyllen, Kammy Darweish, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Cory Peterson, Archie Costelloe, John King, Bonnie Baddoo, John King, Christopher Torretto, Andrew Joshi, Sandra James-Young, Henry Goodman, Joanna Burnett, David Yip.

The Capture. Television Review. Series Two. full post

(553 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Dark Angel. Television Review. (2016).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Joanne Froggatt, Alun Armstrong, Isla Mowbray, Laura Morgan, George Kent, Jonas Armstrong, Emma Fielding, Hayley Walters, John Hollingworth, Alexander McMonigle, Seamus O’Neill, John Bowler, Sam Hoare, Tom Varey, Penny Layden, George Potts, Paul Bentall, Isobel Dobson, Bill Fellows, Mike Burnside, Edward Gower, Niall Ashdown, Thomas Howes, Mark Underwood, Nigel Cooke, Jake Lawson, Jacob Anderton, Mark Holgate, Joanna Horton, Laura Jane Matthewson, Paul Brennen, Ferdy Roberts, Michael Culkin, Shaun Prendergast, Phil Cheadle.

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(702 words, estimated 2:48 mins reading time)

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.

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(631 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

The Mercy. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Colin Forth, Rachel Weisz, David Thewlis, Mark Gatiss, Andrew Buchan, Finn Elliot, Jonathan Bailey, Ken Stott, Adrian Schiller, Sam Hoare, Kit Conner, Eleanor Stagg, Simon McBurney.

There is a fine line between the hopeless romantic adventurer and the lie told in which to preserve the memory of what you set out to achieve; it is a line so thin that you cannot but help pity and remorse for those left behind to pick up the pieces of the notion and want of derring-do and you cannot help but feel the blur of admiration that strikes home, the sense of forlorn hope that cannot but be helped be seen as glorious failure and which makes the most interesting of stories.

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(507 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Dickensian, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tuppence Middleton, Stephen Rae, Sophie Rundle, Alexandra Moen, Joseph Quinn, Tom Weston-Jones, Pauline Collins, Robert Wilfort, Omid Djalili, Peter Firth, Jennifer Hennessy, Caroline Quentin, Richard Ridings, Anton Lesser, Laurel Jordan, Adrian Rawlins, Mark Stanley, Christopher Fairbank, Ned Dennehy, John Heffernan, Ben Starr, Brenock O’Connor, Bethany Muir, Phoebe Dynevor, Ellie Haddington, Richard Cordery, Wilson Radjou-Pujalte, Sam Hoare, Antonia Bernath.

To understand the present, you have to know what happened before, you have to know the story of how a person got to the position in life they inhabit on the day you met them, after that their life makes sense, it has significance.

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(463 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)