Jonathon Wilson

The title of this penultimate episode, “Mesmerized”, refers to a state of mind. It also tees up a plot twist, though admittedly one that should...

As if the kids of Lockwood & Co. didn’t have enough to worry about, in the cliffhanger ending of Episode 5, a man died on...

In Episode 4 of Lockwood & Co., Anthony made a wager with Quill Kipps. “Death Is Coming” sees that somewhat immature competition between the boys heat...

Society, like a living thing, adapts. It changes to suit its circumstances. What was previously inconceivable becomes first doable and then, eventually, normal. In Lockwood...

To recap: the kids of Lockwood & Co. are trying to solve the murder of a dead Hollywood starlet named Annabel Ward, presumably committed by...

The selling point of Lockwood & Co. — the agency, not the show itself — is that it’s independent, run entirely by children, and not...

Lockwood & Co. has as good an opening episode as I’ve seen in a while. It’s economical storytelling and worldbuilding that presents far-out concepts as though...

It’s difficult to get excited about another supernatural teen drama on Netflix these days. The streamer is full of them. And there’s no wonder, really,...

The Bad Batch goes all Indiana Jones this week, delivering another mostly standalone adventure – though admittedly with some worldbuilding implications – involving the whole...

Breaking out of prison is, by all accounts, somewhat difficult to do. They’re kind of built to make that difficult. But breaking in, at least...

Even the worst, most ruthless career criminals have rules, it seems, and not messing with women and children is one of them. In “Alzado”, it’s...

“Second Line” is where, I think, Mayfair Witches starts to sag under the weight of its material. And that isn’t to say anything is especially...

The Turkish Netflix drama Shahmaran has a lot going on, splicing together multiple genres with complicated mythology across eight long episodes, the last of which,...

I must confess to having laughed at the premise of Shahmaran. You can blame Netflix. The streamer presented a summary to me with such complete...

The Netflix anime anthology Junji Ito Maniac adapts the collected works of beloved mangaka Junji Ito into 20 stories spread across 12 25-minute episodes. This breezy collection is an ideal...

The Netflix anime anthology Junji Ito Maniac adapts the collected works of beloved mangaka Junji Ito into 20 stories spread across 12 25-minute episodes. Ito is a...

“Whispering Woman” is adapted from the eighth chapter of Ma No Kakera, and treads unusual territory by being rooted in friendship and a positive bond,...

“Alley”, essentially a murder mystery with a supernatural slant, is adapted from Back Alley, the fifth chapter of The Bully from Horror World of Junji Ito. For Ito...

This double-bill episode collects, I think, the weirdest pair of stories in Junji Ito Maniac, not in terms of their actual content but in how...

Tomie is one of Junji Ito’s most iconic characters. She got an entire volume devoted to her in Horror World of Junji Ito and her...