Articles by Jonathon Wilson
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Episode 4 Recap – A Gloomy Recruitment Drive
In its limited screentime thus far, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has done a pretty remarkable job of communicating a much more hopeful tone...
‘Industry’ Season 4, Episode 5 Recap – The Thing Is Nothing (And Other Revelations)
There are a lot of good ideas in “Eyes Without a Face”. It’s the first proper out-of-office hour of Industry Season 4, which is always...
‘Spartacus: House of Ashur’ Ending Explained – That’s How You Do A Finale
I think it’s fair to say that Spartacus: House of Ashur has earned a finale like Episode 10, “Hail Caesar”. Things haven’t been going especially well for...
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap – Learning on the Job
Having just spent 13 consecutive hours in a hospital, I was particularly sensitive to The Pitt in "11:00 A.M.", perhaps more so than any other episode in Season 2 thus far. This is likely because Episode 5 has a strong undercurrent of time-management, or perhaps more accurately how impossible it is to manage time in a clinical setting.
‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Episode 5 Recap – A Coming Of Age Tale With Real Reverence for DS9
If there has been a persistent complaint about modern Star Trek, it’s that it doesn’t feel very much like Star Trek of old. This accusation has been levelled at Starfleet Academy with great gusto, so it’s probably no surprise that Episode 5, “Series Acclimation Mil”, seems designed to be a deliberate counter to it.
‘The Beauty’ Episode 5 Recap – Of Course It’s the Billionaires
Of course it’s the billionaires! If you were going to sell an experimental trial drug that radically rewrote your DNA for an unfeasibly large amount of money, it’d make complete sense to pitch it directly to people with more money than sense, those to whom small matters like FDA approval – you know, the rules that the plebs are bound by – are small concerns.
‘Hijack’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – Things Are Continuing to Improve
The hook of Hijack has always been a claustrophobic setting. In Season 1, it was a plane, while in Season 2, it’s a train, but ironically, this season has started to improve by expanding its viewpoint.
‘Shrinking’ Season 3, Episode 2 Recap – Growing Up (And Old) Gracefully
I’ll be the first to admit that Shrinking Season 3 started so well that it’s basically impossible for the remaining episodes to consistently hit those heights.
‘Fallout’ Season 2 Ending Explained – Setting the Stage For Season 3
People haven’t been especially keen on Season 2 of Fallout, for some reasons that make a degree of sense and some that don’t, but it’s...
‘Mo Gilligan: In the Moment’ Review – An Evolved Musical Special That’ll Be Difficult to Top
Mo Gilligan is a very good comedian. It’s worth reminding people of this out of the gate, since when a very specific act makes their...
‘Tell Me Lies’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap – These Guys Are Growing Up (Sort Of)
A themed party, a drinking game, and a lot of questionable decision-making -- at first blush, "I Don't Cry When I'm Sad Anymore" is Tell Me Lies performing precisely as advertised.
‘Brilliant Minds’ Season 2, Episode 14 Recap – Gas Leaks and Imaginary Friends
You can always tell when Brilliant Minds is due to go on hiatus, since that’s when it wheels out the big guns. Season 2 hasn’t had very...
‘Vanished’ Episode 1 Recap – I Mean, the Red Flags Were There, Right?
You can tell that Vanished is keeping its cards pretty close to its chest, since after Episode 1, “Rosefinch”, I still couldn’t say with any real certainty that I know more about what’s going on than when I started.
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Episode 3 Recap – And There’s the Big Twist
And there it is, ladies and gentlemen. The big reveal of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms finally arrives in Episode 3, "The Squire", and it's about time, too, since virtually everyone watching the show will have figured it out already.
‘Industry’ Season 4, Episode 4 Recap – It’s All Going Badly Wrong
Industry is about the worst people in the world, partaking in an endless stream of deplorable and immoral activities. This is as true now as it...
‘Return to Silent Hill’ Gets A Few Things Dead Wrong About ‘Silent Hill 2’
Unlike Christophe Gans’s first cinematic foray into the world of Silent Hill, which wasn’t based on any of the games in particular and instead pulled...
‘Return to Silent Hill’ Review – A Dreadfully Dull and Nonsensical Adaptation
Back in the halcyon days when it was generally understood that every live-action adaptation of a video game would be unforgivably terrible, Christophe Gans’s 2006...
‘The Wrecking Crew’ Review – This Is Way Better Than You Probably Expected
When I first heard tell of a straight-to-streaming action movie starring Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista, I feared the worst. And it’s on Prime Video,...
‘The Night Manager’ Season 2 Ending Explained – That Isn’t What Was Supposed to Happen!
Isn’t it funny how, when Season 2 began, nobody really expected or wanted a sequel to The Night Manager, and now that it’s ending, the...
Wait, So How Is ‘Wonder Man’ Connected to the MCU?
Wonder Man is proudly disconnected from the broader MCU, but make no mistake about it – this is set in the same universe as the...