Watch Guide:
😍 Personal favourite
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🙂 Has some value
😕 Safely skipped
🙈 Unavailable
This is all the personal opinion of the owner of this website, with preferences and biases.
Note that my ratings focus on his scenes, not necessarily the show as a whole.
Overall quality is taken into account, but this should not be taken as judgement of the entire cast and crew.
TV: Domina (2021-2023)
Rating: A solid watch, lots to love. 😁
Involvement: Main character, 14 out of 16 episodes.
Summary: The life of Livia Drusilla, the powerful wife of the Roman emperor Augustus.
Matthew plays: Livia’s husband, Gaius aka Caesar Augustus, intelligent and ruthless.
Worth watching?: Absolutely. Especially if you like historical dramas that lean towards political thrillers, with lots of sex and violence.
Warnings: Mature, plenty of sex scenes. Violent but not gory.
Film: Greatest Days (2023)
Rating: Solid, but brief. 🙂
Involvement: One major scene.
Summary: A feature adaptation of the 'The Band' musical, featuring the songs of Take That.
Matthew plays: Stuart, and airline worker greeting the main characters.
Worth watching?: It’s Matthew’s first musical, and he has a big number in which he both sings and dances. So yes, definitely. He does a great job.
Warnings: Song and dance.
TV: The Rising (2022)
Rating: Personal favourite. 😍
Involvement: Main character, all 8 episodes.
Summary: A supernatural murder mystery, where the ghost of the victim, a strong-willed teenage girl, is trying to solve her own murder.
Matthew plays: Tom, the father of the victim, an alcoholic disaster dad who’s trying his best.
Worth watching?: Yes. It was all-around fantastically created and written, and Matthew’s character is wonderful and plays a substantial part.
Warnings: Death, some violence, but nothing too gruesome. Drug and alcohol use.
TV: Anne (2022)
Rating: Decent. 🙂
Involvement: Supporting character, episodes 3 and 4.
Summary: The story of Anne Williams fight for the truth of her son’s death in the Hillsborough disaster.
Matthew plays: Andy Burnham, a politician supportive of Anne’s cause.
Worth watching?: If you’re particularly interested. Decent show, but his part his limited.
Warnings: Grapples a lot with death, but nothing explicit or graphic.
Film: Running Naked (2020)
Rating: A great watch. 😁
Involvement: Main character.
Summary: Two lifelong friends who met as teenage leukemia patients go on an adventure together and have to deal with some big questions.
Matthew plays: Mark Doherty, successful doctor and ladies’ man, who “risks everything” to break his friend out of his shell.
Worth watching?: Absolutely, he’s a main character in a very compelling story.
Warnings: Cancer stuff, and nudity. (It’s not called ‘running naked’ for nothing.)
TV: Doctor Who (2020)
Rating: Personal (biased) favourite. 😍
Involvement: Guest, season 12 episode 6: “Praxeus”.
Summary: Our time-travelling adventurers are here to save the earth from an alien virus.
Matthew plays: An astronaut who’s abducted and infected with an alien virus, and whose husband comes to rescue him.
Worth watching?: I’m extremely biased, but I was in tears by the end, so absolutely yes. A somewhat weak Doctor Who episode, but for Matthew fans, it’s great.
Warnings: Very mild body horror, but it’s a family show so that’s it.
TV: Deadwater Fell (2020)
Rating: Personal favourite. 😍
Involvement: Main character, all 4 episodes.
Summary: Crime drama. When a seemingly perfect and happy family is murdered by someone they knew and trusted, cracks appear on the surface of a supposedly idyllic community.
Matthew plays: Steve, a police officer and friend of the family who was murdered.
Worth watching?: God yes! Main character. Lots of emotions. Scottish accent. And a great job by everyone involved.
Warnings: Mild violence, fire, child death, some sexual content (no explicit nudity), self-harm, panic attacks, manipulative/abusive relationships. None of it very explicit, but the themes are there throughout.
TV: The Bay (2019)
Rating: Lots of great scenes. 😁
Involvement: Supporting character, all 6 episodes.
Summary: Crime drama. Police in the Morecambe Bay area in Lancashire investigate missing persons and suspicious deaths.
Matthew plays: Nick, a mentally disabled dock worker who becomes a suspect in a kidnapping, and then gets kidnapped himself.
Worth watching?: Yes, he does some excellent heart-wrenching acting, though personally I mainly watched his scenes. I’m weak for angst.
Warnings: General crime drama warnings, some violence.
TV: Cleaning Up (2019)
Rating: Solid watch. 😁
Involvement: Supporting character, all 6 episodes.
Summary: Drama. Working class loving mother with a gambling addiction gets involved in the illegal world of insider trading.
Matthew plays: Dave, the ex-husband and father of her kids, who’s trying to get custody of the children and/or get her to deal with her gambling problem.
Worth watching?: Yes, his character is very sweet, and the show’s overall good.
Warnings: Deals with gambling addictions and white collar crime.
TV: Do Not Disturb (2019)
Rating: Unavailable. 🙈
Involvement: Main character? 1 episode.
Summary: Drama. Anthology series that examines the private lives of guests checking into hotel rooms around the world.
Matthew plays: Pete?
Worth watching?: No idea. Only released in France, on a streaming service that no longer exists. The preview image is the only thing we’ve seen from it.
Warnings: Seems to be horror-y.
TV: Versailles (2018)
Rating: Enjoyable enough. 😁
Involvement: Supporting character, 9 episodes in season 3.
Summary: Historical drama set during the construction of the Palace of Versailles.
Matthew plays: Guillaume, an ex-soldier who saved Philippe during the war, recruited by King Louis to become a cobbler for him.
Worth watching?: Yeah, it’s pretty good, though it didn’t quite grab me. He’s got great hair.
Warnings: None for his parts.
TV: The Terror (2018)
Rating: Great show, very beloved. 😁
Involvement: Supporting character, 9 out of 10 episodes, season 1.
Summary: Historical drama/horror. The crew of a Royal Naval expedition searching for the Arctic’s treacherous Northwest Passage discovers instead a monstrous predator.
Matthew plays: Edward Little, a loyal lieutenant. A fan-favourite.
Worth watching?: If you like supernatural horror/psychological thriller, and if you can deal with his out-of-control sideburns, yes absolutely. He gets a larger part in the later episodes.
Warnings: Fair amount of gore/body horror.
TV: Lucky Man (2017)
Rating: Enjoyable, but brief. 🙂
Involvement: Guest, season 2 episode 2: “Playing With Fire”.
Summary: Police procedural. The episode focuses on an anti-gay church.
Matthew plays: A “reformed gay” husband of murder victim.
Worth watching?: Yeah. While he’s only in a few scenes, they’re good.
Warnings: Violence and blood, but not gory. Typical police procedural.
TV: The Musketeers (2016)
Rating: Personal favourite, love this role. 😍
Involvement: Main villain, all 10 episodes of season 3.
Summary: Historical adventure. 17th century Paris, focusing on the lives of the soldiers/bodyguards protecting King and country.
Matthew plays: Lucien Grimaud, a lower-class ruthless villain. He gets a lot of badass stuff to do, trying to gain money and power, kill the Musketeers, and commit regicide.
Worth watching?: Definitely. It’s amazing to watch him be evil. And sword-fight.
Warnings: So much violence and stabbing. Not gory though.
TV: Black Work (2015)
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Film: Sweat (2015)
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TV: The Mill (2013-2014)
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TV: Jamaica Inn (2014)
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TV: Poirot (2013)
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TV: Our Girl (2013)
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TV: Misfits (2010-2012)
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Film: Spike Island (2012)
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Film: The Knot (2012)
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TV: Room at the Top (2012)
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TV: Silk (2012)
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TV: The Syndicate (2012)
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TV: Silent Witness (2011)
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Film: Toast (2010)
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TV: Single-Handed (2010)
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TV: Garrow’s Law (2010)
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TV: Law and Order: UK (2010)
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Film: The Arbor (2010)
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TV: Lark Rise to Candleford (2009-2010)
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TV: Five Days (2010)
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TV: Return to Cranford (2009)
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Film: Messengers 2: The Scarecrow (2009)
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Film: Looking For Eric (2009)
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TV: Inspector George Gently (2009)
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Film: Vivaldi, the Red Priest (2009)
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TV: Unforgiven (2009)
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Film: The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (2009)
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Film: Little Ashes (2009)
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TV: Honest (2008)
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TV: The Royal (2007)
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TV: True Dare Kiss (2007)
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Film: Control (2007)
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Series: Holby City (2007)
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Film: The Mark of Cain (2007)
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TV: Doctors (2006)
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TV: See No Evil: The Moors Murders (2006)
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TV: Shameless (2006)
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TV: Outlaws (2004)
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TV: Sweet Medicine (2003)
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Film: Birthday Girl (2002)
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TV: Emmerdale Farm (2001)
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TV: Coronation Street (2000)
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