Catherine Morshead Archives

Cameron Chapman, Ali Hadji-Heshmati, and Ruby Stokes in Lockwood & Co

Lockwood & Co, a ghostly sci-fi thriller

Leave a Comment / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / February 16, 2023 / Ali Hadji-Heshmati, Cameron Chapman, Catherine Morshead, foreign tv series, Hayley Konadu, Ivanno Jeremiah, Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co, Morven Christie, Ruby Stokes, Women Directors

Lockwood & Co is sci-fi based on novels by Jonathan Stroud. It’s set in a future world where ghosts can kill you and only young people have the needed “talent” to find and destroy the ghosts.

Review: Silk, season 1

5 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / September 4, 2018 / Catherine Morshead, foreign tv series, Maxine Peake, Natalie Dormer, Neil Stuke, Nina Sosanya, Peter Moffat, Rupert Penry-Jones, season 1, Silk, Tom Hughes, Women Directors

Silk takes us on a roller coaster ride with barrister Martha Costello (Maxine Peake) and the barristers, clerks, and juniors in her chamber. This very British legal drama is full of courtroom scenes and goings on in chambers, but doesn’t delve into most of the character’s personal lives.

Review: No Offence, season 2

Leave a Comment / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / August 24, 2018 / Amira Ghazalla, Catherine Morshead, Claudia Adshead, Elaine Cassidy, Ivana Basic, Joanna Scanlan, No Offense, Paul Abbott, Rakie Ayola, Saira Choudhry, Samira Radsi, Sarah O'Gorman, season 2, trailers, Will Mellor, Women Directors, Zackary Momoh, Zak Sutcliffe

No Offence, season 2, carries on with the same group of hardworking Manchester police we met in season 1. Joanna Scanlan as DI Vivienne Deering runs the place with somewhat unorthodox panache. The overarching crimes of the season involve young children stolen from the child welfare system and put to work in illegal ways.

Joanna Scanlan, Alexandra Roach and Elaine Cassidy in No Offence

Review: No Offence

1 Comment / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / April 23, 2018 / Alexandra Roach, Catherine Morshead, Charlie May-Clark, Elaine Cassidy, foreign tv series, Hanna Bieniuszewicz, Joanna Scanlan, Mia Blakeley, Misha Manson-Smith, Neet Mohan, No offence, Paul Abbott, Risteard Cooper, Sacha Dhawan, Saira Choudhry, Samira Radsi, Sarah O'Gorman, season 1, Ste Johnston, Tom Varey, trailers, Will Mellor, Women Directors

No Offence is a cop drama from the UK. It features a group of Manchester police who are dedicated to the job, but have interesting and sometimes funny lives as well.

Bel Powley and Amanda Hale as the younger and older Carrie in Murderland

Review: Murderland

Leave a Comment / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / October 10, 2017 / Amanda Hale, Andrew Tiernan, Bel Powley, Catherine Morshead, Lorraine Ashbourne, Lucy Cohu, Mali Harries, Murderland, Nicholas Gleaves, Robbie Coltrane, Sharon Small, trailers, Women Directors

Murderland is currently available on Amazon Video. It was originally a three part mystery on Britain’s iTV in 2009, but streams as a two hour movie on Amazon.