Jonathon Wilson

As with many of its recent big originals, such as Stranger Things and The Witcher, Netflix, in its infinite wisdom, has deigned to release Season...

It’s very rare for any show to drastically waver in quality between two episodes, but while I thought the fourth episode of Black Cake was...

The ending of Feedback Season 1 is a quietly brilliant thing. After four episodes of build-up surrounding what happened to Piotr, the son of a disgraced former...

The morning after the night before. We’ve all been there, trying to put the pieces together after a heavy night on the booze. What did...

It takes a while – let’s be frank, too long – to get there, but the ending of Criminal Code Season 1 is worth waiting...

Law enforcement is an incredibly complex thing. It can’t be easy to take down a criminal syndicate, investigate robberies in at least two countries, and...

Whereas the first three episodes of Black Cake Season 1 were largely about the past, in particular how it informs and defines the present, Episode...

In its latest pair of episodes, Strong Girl Nam-soon is well-served by a bit more seriousness and drama. In many ways, the overarching Season 1...

The lighthouse is a pretty universally understood symbol for being kept on the right track, so it’s a bit ironic that Beacon 23, which is...

The ending of Culprits Season 1 is, in a word, weird. Odd. Unusual. Perhaps unconventional is the most fitting description, since little about it proceeds...

The penultimate episode of Culprits asks more questions than it answers. It’s a much slower – and, for that matter, lesser – outing than Episode...

“Vessels” technically starts with a cold open in which we see what really happened between Officer and Devil in Paris, but don’t worry about that...

“Let Us Sit Bent, and Talk Straight” is a nasty, mean-spirited episode of Culprits that really raises the stakes heading into the back half of...

Pardon me for thinking we were over the COVID-19 pandemic, or at the very least over pandemic media, because goodness me, some terrible garbage emerged...

Let me be the first to tell you that the ending of Akuma Kun Season 1 is deliberately ambiguous and mostly exists to set up...

Netflix are having a phenomenal run with their animated content at the moment, with Pluto arriving out of nowhere as a best-of-the-year contender only to...

Maybe it’s just me, but I wasn’t as enamored with Episode 4 of Culprits as I have been with Season 1’s first three installments. It’s hard...

It’s probably safe to say at this point that the heist didn’t go especially well. Just like in Episode 2, the third episode of Culprits Season 1,...

“Angler Fish” is about fear, in many ways, not all of them obvious. Sure, the sentiment comes through most bluntly when the title itself is...

There was before, and then there’s after. This is the narrative framing conceit employed by Culprits Season 1, with Episode 1, “Change of Use”, being divided...