Articles by Jonathon Wilson
The Winter King Season 1 Episode 5 Recap – Why does Arthur duel Owain?
You can say this for The Winter King – it isn’t afraid to be bold with its storytelling choices. This is a show about King...
Song of the Bandits Season 1 Ending Explained – Does Gwang-il know Hee-shin is a spy?
After eight prior episodes, and with most of its essential conflicts already resolved in one way or another, season 1, episode 9 of Song of...
Song of the Bandits Season 1 Episode 8 Recap – Why Doesn’t Yoon Kill Gwang-il?
For much of its runtime, Song of the Bandits has been a tale of two men, both doomed to exist on opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum....
Song of the Bandits Season 1 Episode 7 Recap – How Does Yoon Escape With Hee-shin?
Episode 7 of Song of the Bandits starts by reminding us that Ooka is back in Myeongjeong, running things with an iron fist — and a...
Song of the Bandits Season 1 Episode 6 Recap – How Does Gwang-il Find Yoon?
In previous episodes of Song of the Bandits, a prior relationship between Choong-soo and Eon-nyeoni has been regularly suggested. However, we didn’t have any details until...
Song of the Bandits Season 1 Episode 5 Recap – Who Shoots Eon-nyeoni?
It’s the morning after the night before, the night before Episode 4 of Song of the Bandits. To recap, the railway money was stolen by Eon-nyeoni...
Song of the Bandits Season 1 Episode 4 Recap – Why Does Yoon Hand Over The money?
There’s little reason to empathize with Gwang-il. He has been displayed thus far as a psychotic, especially as evidenced in Episode 3, where he penned...
Song of the Bandits Season 1 Episode 3 Recap – Why Are Yoon and Eon-nyeoni Arrested?
I haven’t mentioned this thus far, but Lee Yoon is at least partially driven by a lost love. We’ve only received very vague snippets of...
Song of the Bandits Season 1 Episode 2 Recap – Who is Hee-shin?
Episode 2 of Song of the Bandits takes what worked about Episode 1 and turns it all up a notch, introducing a new point-of-view character, delivering...
Song of the Bandits Season 1 Episode 1 Recap – What Happened In Gurye?
Episode 1 of Song of the Bandits might suffer from some clunky expositional dialogue, but it delivers almost everything you could want from a premiere while...
Song of the Bandits Season 1 Review – A Korean Take on a Classic Style
Despite the monumental rise in popularity of Korean drama over the last few years, thanks in large part to streaming platforms like Netflix and the...
Moving Season 1 Episode 20 Recap and Ending Explained – What Happens to the Main Characters?
Moving, despite its highly unconventional release cadence, has been a major hit for Disney+, with the K-Drama enjoying a massive audience week on week. Its...
Superpower (2023) Review – The Penn perspective on Ukraine and Zelensky
There’s something – and this is putting it mildly – a little odd about Superpower, the documentary about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine co-directed and narrated...
The Woman in the Wall Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – Who is Ignatius McCullen?
Episode 5 of The Woman in the Wall is, I think, the best in the series. It’s packed with the biggest reveals – including an...
The Woman in the Wall Season 1, Episode 4 Recap – How Was Colman Adopted?
In The Woman in the Wall Episode 3, Lorna finally confessed to murdering Aoife Cassidy and hiding her body behind her living room wall. But...
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 1, Episode 2 Recap – Who is Lily?
Well, it was only a matter of time before The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon deployed the franchise’s all-time favorite storytelling device – flashbacks. “Alouette,” the...
The Winter King Season 1, Episode 4 Recap – Where Does Arthur Find Excalibur?
The Winter King Episode 3, the first to properly feature Arthur in a story that is largely about recontextualizing Arthurian legend, was mostly about the...
Surviving Summer Season 2, Episode 8 Recap and Ending Explained – “Send It”
After a serious slump in the middle portion, Surviving Summer Season 2 is at least able to recapture some of the first season’s spirit in...
Surviving Summer Season 2 Review – Even More Mediocre Teen Fare
Surviving Summer was Australia’s offering in the ever-burgeoning YA streaming market, and it was neither good nor bad enough to be especially memorable. The first...
Class Act Season 1 Episode 7 Recap and Ending Explained
This article contains spoilers for the ending of Class Act Season 1 Episode 7. Class Act is a Netflix limited series chronicling the real-life rise...