Tag Archives: Television review

Mapp And Lucia, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast; Miranda Richardson, Anna Chancellor, Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss, Pippa Haywood, Nicholas Woodeson, Gemma Whelen,  Poppy Miller, Felicity Montague, Paul Ritter, Jenny Platt, Susan Porrett, Maxine Roach,  Joanna Scanlan, Simon Startin, Harish Patel, Frances Barber, Gavin Broker, Soo Drouet, Andy Godfrey, Sophie Leigh Stone, Peter Mould.

The English and their manners, it is a wonder at times that we haven’t tied ourselves up in knots and caused a type of inner combustion with the subtle one-upman, or indeed in the case of the three part television series Mapp And Lucia, one up-womanship that so leads to conflict with our neighbours and dearest friends. It is possibly the modern etiquette attached to an English Civil War, if we cannot get rid of a Government taking the country apart, lets kick down the social ladder.

Mapp And Lucia, Television Review. full post

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

The Boy In The Dress, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast Billy Kennedy, Temi Orelaja, Jennifer Saunders, James Buckley, Tim McInnerny, Felicity Montagu, Steve Speirs, Meera Syal, David Walliams, Aaron Chawla, Rosheen Hinze, Oliver Barry-Brook, Emma Cooke, Harish Patel, Sonny Ashbourne Serkis, Kate Moss, Gary Lineker, Alex Thomas.

The Boy in the Dress is one of those heart-touching moments of British television that no doubt will split the vast majority of Christmas viewers. It will inevitably also have those that purposefully avoided it have mini rages into their early morning cups of tea and spitting in annoyance at the thought of such a diverse subject being given air time.

The Boy In The Dress, Television Review. full post

(644 words, estimated 2:35 mins reading time)

Fargo: A Fox, A Rabbit And A Cabbage. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Martin Freeman, Bob Odenkirk, Keith Carradine, Joey King, Susan Park, Stephen Root, Helena Mattsson, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Lorne Cardinal, Jennifer Copping, Jade Davis.

When the Devil makes the most of the innocuous then you know it’s time to be really terrified.

Fargo: A Fox, A Rabbit And A Cabbage. Television Review. full post

(458 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Fargo: The Heap. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Martin Freeman, Bob Odenlirk, Keith Carradine, Joey King, Kate Walsh, Russell Harvard, Tom Musgrave, Stephen Root, Helena Mattsson, Julie Ann Emery, Rachel Blanchard, Susan Park, Gary Valentine, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Marty Antonini, Liam Green, Atticus Dean Mitchell, Leslie Maynes, James D. Hopkin, Christopher Rosamond, Dan Redican, Richard Sherry, Jade Davis, Carrie Coak, Jennifer Copping, Dayle Krall, Barkhad Abdirahman.  

Fargo: The Heap. Television Review. full post

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

Jack Taylor, Shot Down. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Iain Glen, Hazel Doupe, Michael Collins, Nora-Jane Noone, David O’Meara, Killian Scott, Garrett Keogh, Barbara Bergin, Martin Ward, Karl Shiels, Emmet Kirwin, Eamonn Hunt, Stephen Cromwell, Mark Butler, Ruth Magill, Rúaidhrí Conroy.  

 

Running away is easy, especially when the alternative is facing up to those that have taken a bullet for you and watch them sink further into a coma. Such is the life of ex-Garda turned Private Detective Jack Taylor, but even he could not have foreseen the life he would find in perhaps the final ever case of the fine Irish thriller, Shot Down.

Jack Taylor, Shot Down. Television Review. full post

(524 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Jack Taylor: Priest. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Iain Glen, Killian Scott, Nora-Jane Noone, John Kavanagh, Paraic Breathnach,  Susanne Schrader, Midie Corcoran, Lovis Baum, Dion Arensmann, Ronan Leahy, Eithne Ní Enrí, Nina Borey, Pippa Borey, Nuala Donnolly, Barry Keoghan, Chris Connors, Gary Hetzaler, Martin Linnane, Fionn O’Shea, Ingrid Craigie, Gavin Drea,  Síghle Ní Chonail,  Andreas Krämer, Ray Quinn.

Jack Taylor: Priest. Television Review. full post

(418 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Jack Taylor: The Dramatist. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Iain Glen, Nora Jane Noone, Killian Scott, Niall Buggy, Colm Ward, Kathleen Rayner, Aine Ni Mhuiri, Fionn Walton, Michael Burton, Thomas O’ Suilleabhain, Ann Marie Horan, David Murray, Roisin Loughlane, Sonya O’ Donohue, Emma Eliza Regan, Eoin Bourke, John Cronin, Muirann Ryan, Orla Bell.

Jack Taylor: The Dramatist. Television Review. full post

(488 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Fargo: Buridan’s Ass. Episode Six, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 81/2/10

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Oliver Platt, Glen Howerton, Adam Goldberg, Russell Harvard, Joshua Close, Barry Flatman, Rachel Blanchard, Peter Breitmayer, Gary Valentine, Gordon S. Miller, Spencer Drever.

When your back is against the wall, you are capable of many things. In the case of Lester Nygaard, his back is so far against the wall that his shadow is slowly suffocating and franticly using a small hammer to try and dig through to the other side.

Fargo: Buridan’s Ass. Episode Six, Television Review. full post

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

Under Milk Wood, 2014 Cast Recording. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Michael Sheen, Tom Jones, Matthew Rhys, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Tom Rhys Harries, Karl Johnson, Iwan Rheon, Aneurin Barnard, Ioan Gruffudd, Kimberley Nixon, Steffan Rhodri, Mark Lewis Jones, Richard Harrington, Sophie Evans, Melanie Walters, Griff Rhys Jones, John Rhys Davies, Andrew Howard, Rakie Ayola, Jonathan Pryce, Sian Phillips, Bryn Terfel, Katherine Jenkins, Charlotte Church, Tom Ellis, Aneirin Hughes, Robert Pugh, Suzanne Packer, Eve Myles, Alexandra Roach, Craig Roberts, Sharon Morgan, Owen Teale, Di Botcher, Sian Thomas, Jon Tregenna.

Under Milk Wood, 2014 Cast Recording. Television Review. full post

(471 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Fargo, The Muddy Road. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 81/2/10

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Bob Odenkirk, Oliver Platt, Keith Carradine, Kate Walsh, Joshua Close, Adam Goldberg, Russell Harvard, Glen Howerton, Joey King, Tom Musgrave, Susan Park, Barry Flatman, Peter Brietmayer.

It is the ethos of those who perhaps understand Human behaviour better than the rest of us, who say with certain straight melancholy, that the so called Zombie Apocalypse surely wouldn’t be any worse than what we deal with now. They have a point when the devilish Lorne Malvo can be both cruelly charming and disarmingly brutal, an individual who surely would draw inspiration from the evil spirits that fester alongside and within Christopher Marlow’s Faustus.

Fargo, The Muddy Road. Television Review. full post

(532 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)