Jonathon Wilson

You can describe Netflix’s long-running original hit Elite as many things. The salacious Spanish teen drama has been, variably, a class commentary, an erotic thriller,...

Well, folks, we’ve finally made it, and Elite Season 7 has been a particularly aggravating journey. Knowing that the ending of Season 7 is really...

“Just Hug Me”, the penultimate episode of Elite Season 7, really just proves what I’ve been saying all along – this show is rubbish. And...

Before we get into “Rock Bottom”, Episode 6 of Elite Season 7, permit me a small point. It occurs to me that it’s difficult to...

Episode 4 was, on balance, probably the best episode of Elite Season 7. Episode 5, on the other hand, is not. At all. There’s a...

There’s always a party episode in Elite and other teen dramas, and it’s always followed by the hangover episode, or the “morning after the night...

Are things picking up a little in Elite Season 7? That might be a touch ambitious, but at the very least Episode 3, “Bling-Bling”, has...

Elite Season 7 continues its run of bad form in Episode 2, “Protocol”, which still lacks anything worthy of an audience’s attention. There’s no murder,...

You’ll notice immediately that “Las Encinas”, Episode 1 of Elite Season 7, doesn’t play out like one of the show’s premieres usually does. There’s no...

No series typifies Netflix better than Elite, a lusty Spanish high-school melodrama that has just debuted its seventh season despite not having been any good...

Kaala Paani, a seven-part Netflix original series created by Sameer Saxena and Amit Golani, exists in the long shadow cast by the COVID-19 pandemic. India’s...

There has been a fair amount of fuss about Kaala Paani on Netflix, the first – if the press materials are to be believed –...

You can use many adjectives to describe The Winter King until this point, but Episode 7 is the first one I’d apply the “romantic” label...

If the first season of Billy the Kid on MGM+ was an origin story of sorts, showing how personal trauma and unfortunate circumstances led Henry...

And just like that, another spin-off of The Walking Dead ends in a deliberately ambiguous way, teasing yet more spin-offs in this fractal, undying AMC...

Episode 4 of Strong Girl Nam-soon Season 1 begins right where we left off in Episode 3, so our recap might as well start there too....

The second episode of Strong Girl Nam-soon ended on quite the cliffhanger, with Nam-soon being unknowingly reunited with her biological father, Bong-go, who recognized her...

Episode 1 of Strong Girl Nam-soon was really rather good, all things considered, but the K-Drama really finds its groove in Episode 2, which doubles...

It certainly took its time getting here, but just like that, Arthdal Chronicles season 2 will come to an end on October 15, 2023, with the eagerly...

Strong Girl Nam-soon is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a spin-off of Strong Girl Bong-soon, boasting the same underlying premise and hodgepodge of issues. But I have good...