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The Musketeers, The Accused. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Alexandra Dowling, Luke Pasqualino, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Maimie McCoy, Hugo Speer, Marc Warren, Phil Rowson, Charlotte Salt, Ed Stoppard, Marianne Oldham, Hara Yannas.

The end game is almost upon the faithful Musketeers. The Queen stands charged with treason and treachery, Aramis is deeply involved in a scandal that could bring civil war to France and Athos has started to see the deceitful Milady De Winter in a different light once more, the combination of all these chemical, potentially nuclear like explosive elements are enough to place the future of the country into unheralded jeopardy on the scale of Agincourt.

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(484 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

The Musketeers: The Prodigal Father. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Alexandra Dowling, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Maimie McCoy, Luke Pasqualino, Hugh Speer, Marc Warren, Phoebe Dynevor, Ellie Bamber, Liam Cunningham, Emma Hamilton, Ed Stoppard, Ben Addis, Amanda Wass.

It’s hard enough on the soul when we find out what our friends are like when they turn against us, what it does to the fragile nature of inner peace when we find out what are parents are capable of, especially if like Porthos, one of them has been conveniently missing for the whole of your life, is an emotional response that you might not wish upon a sworn enemy.

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(477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

The Musketeers: A Marriage Of Inconvenience. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Alexandra Dowling, Ryan Gage, Maimie McCoy, Tamla Kari, Marc Warren, Hugo Speer, Perdita Weeks, Nicholas Blane, Laurence Kennedy, Charlotte Salt, Bo Poraj, Andrew Westfield, Ed Stoppard, James Joyce, Tony Guilfoyle.

It seems funny in some ways that there is so much made of the destabilising forces that seek to infiltrate the countries of the world and the modern techniques used in the world of espionage and spying, that people forget just how long spying has been used as a precursor to war, whether on a nation or on a person, spying is always the name of the game.

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(361 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

The Musketeers, The Return. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Hugo Speer, Maimie McCoy, Linzie Cocker, Steve Evets, Alan Rothwell, Barney White, Miles Anderson, Marianne Oldham.

As history has proved time and time again, when the Musketeers are in a fight, it is all for one and one for all. Thankfully in the modern retelling of the classic story and arguably the best in over a hundred and ten years of film and television portrayals, it’s not every episode that has the clichéd signal of derring-do attached to it, the near fatalistic but ultimately triumphant cheer of the Musketeer’s motto shouted across the television as if the viewer would ever forget.

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(393 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

The Musketeers: Amilie, Series Two: Episode Four. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Alexandra Dowling, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Maime McCoy, Hugo Speer, Marc Warren, Emma Lowndes, Ellie Haddington, Laura Hobson, Charles Venn, Oliver Rix, Will Keen, Charlotte Salt, Celeste Dodwell, John Harding, Ed Stoppard.

 

Religion and politics, never easy bed fellows at the best of times, when the delicate balance hangs on the word of a young woman, that strange set of bed fellows becomes a dicey, almost inflammatory affair, which if left unchecked; could spell disaster for French-Spanish relations and have long consequences for the whole of Europe.

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(547 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

The Musketeers, A Good Traitor. Series Two, Episode Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Ryan Gage, Alexandra Dowling, Marc Warren, Hugo Speer, Colin Salmon, Tamla Kari, Maime McCoy, Finbar Lynch, Bohdan Poraj, Oliver Rix, Charlotte Salt, Ed Stoppard, Antonia Thomas, Celeste Dodwell, Will Keen.

 

The questions of race, equality and loyalty and how they are observed in Europe’s chaotic and often brutal past comes into play in the latest episode of The Musketeers, The Good Traitor and it is one that doesn’t skirt the issue in a time when religious fervour is perhaps mirrored in today’s society.

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(421 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

The Musketeers, An Ordinary Man. Series Two, Episode Two, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Ryan Gage, Alexandra Dowling, Marc Warren, Hugo Speer, Maimie McCoy, Tamla Kari, Christopher Fulford, Micah Balfour, Stuart Bowman, Robin Browne, Will Keen, Brian McCardie, Mark Penfold, Brian Pettifer, Charlotte Reid, Oliver Rix, Chris Ryman, Charlotte Salt, Anton Saunders, Antonia Thomas.

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(561 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

The Musketeers, Keep Your Friends Close. Series Two, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Alexandra Dowling, Ryan Gage, Marc Warren, Tamla Kari, Hugo Speer, Dominic Mafham, Mark Carter, John Harding, Anthony Houghton, Will Keen, Olivia Llewellyn, Andy Lucas, Richard Mulholland, Hugo Nicholau, Peter Pacey, Bohdan Poraj, Oliver Rix, Mateo Rufino, Charlotte Salt.

 

The safety of France is at stake and yet somehow it is The Musketeers that have placed it in danger by rescuing a man from a lynch mob. It is the sort of opening to a new series of hugely successful adventure series The Musketeers that feels as good as it possible to be.

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(476 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Utopia: Season Two, Pressing Matters. Television Review. Channel 4.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Burke, Rose Leslie, Anca-Ioana Androne, Tim McInnerny, Trystan Gravelle, Clive Wood, Pamela Ashton, William Belchambers, Ed Birch, Vicenzo Ferrara, Aine Garvey, Lorna Gayle, Yare Michael Jegbefume, Solomon Mousley, Harley Rooney, Mason Rooney, James Stratton, Kevin Trainor, Velile Tshabalala.

In your life time, depending on how old you are, the population of the Earth has almost tripled. Seven billion people fighting for a scraps of land, for food, water, over religion, over the right to survive and the right to have a family, Seven billion souls, who thanks to the advancement in healthcare, the quick eradication of infectious diseases and peace keeping forces, seemingly take up more resources than the world can actually supply. Such is the dystopian plot that makes up one of Channel 4’s finest programmes in over a decade, Utopia.

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(569 words, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)

The Musketeers: Musketeers Don’t Die Easily. Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Peter Capaldi, Howard Charles, Maimie McCoy, Luke Pasqualino, Sean Pertwee, Alexandra Dowling, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Hugo Speer, Roger Ringrose, Charlotte Hope, Holly Earl, Bo Poraj, Virginia Fiol, Matt Slack.

The Musketeers has become one of those programmes in which to simply ignore it is just not good manners! The squeal of adventure thunders in on every episode and in this final chapter of the series, Musketeers Don’t Die Easily, many traps are laid, various deceptions are deployed by the writer and even if for one brief moment the pace of the action was going to be enhanced by the sound of someone whistling Ennio Morricone’s epic score to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the story was one that saw the whole creation of this adaptation be seen for what it is, just terrific!

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(430 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)