Jonathon Wilson

Magic requires a suspension of disbelief. You have to surrender yourself to the illusion. You know you’re being conned, but that’s the point, and if...

I’m pleased to report – albeit behind schedule – that Wake Up Dead Man, the third in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out mysteries, is probably the...

Wake Up Dead Man is the first Knives Out Mystery to realise that Daniel Craig’s eccentric detective Benoit Blanc is the least interesting thing about...

Every time Sherlock Holmes has shown up in Watson Season 2, it has heralded bad news.

I Love LA ventures more into overt sitcom territory in Episode 7, “Divas Down”, but what initially seems like a shallower episode is really just another step on the journey of Maia’s self-defeating psychopathy.

There are two constants in Stephen King’s work: Fear and evil. Both are eternal. The very idea of Pennywise – or “The Entity”, or simply...

I’d like to be wrong about this, but Pro Bono strikes me as the kind of weekend K-Drama that is perfectly fine and serviceable, but one that, for some hard-to-articulate reason, never really resonates with people.

Can you call yourself a proper outlaw if you lose a sword fight to Sean Bean? It’s worth thinking about. The guy dies in everything he’s in.

I’m beginning to really enjoy the rhythm of Landman Season 2. This is perhaps because it hasn’t always had a discernible one.

You could feel it coming, couldn't you? All throughout Mayor of Kingstown Season 4, that feeling of impending calamity has been building, and building, and here in Episode 8, "Belleville", it arrives.

I do love a subplot that feels very specific, and Sheriff Country has had its share of those already. But it has a really good one in Episode 8, appropriately titled “Death & Taxes”, which really enjoyably leans into the show’s very specific vibe and sense of place.

I’ve been moaning about Boston Blue’s lack of meaningful conflict. But I’m beginning to wonder if maybe the real thing that was missing was depth.

There’s a lot of fire in City of Shadows. Flames form a recurring motif; for revenge, for rebirth, for all kinds of the usual ideas...

Slipping right into the storied streaming canon about maverick detectives with haunted backstories solving major crimes in European cities, City of Shadows is the latest...

The ironic thing about a title like "Unworthy" is that it's a reminder that pretty much nobody in Spartacus: House of Ashur is all that worthy of the positions they find themselves in.

For a while, the hook of Pluribus was that Carol was completely alone. This quickly turned out to be an exaggeration. She was introduced to other English-speaking survivors almost immediately, and even made friends, sort of, with the Others themselves.

Much like how “horror movie, but with a dog” was more than enough of an elevator pitch for Good Boy, “rom com, but with a...

You can describe Palm Royale as many things, but romantic isn’t one of them. There are lots of romances, sure, but they’re always silly, or scandalous, or transactional, which has been as true in Season 2 as it was in the first outing.

After an outing that felt like a penultimate episode but wasn’t, then a penultimate episode that felt like a finale, it’s probably only right that...

I’m happy to report that the ending of Loot Season 3 is a lot better than I expected it to be, given the currently ropey state of...