Articles by Jonathon Wilson
‘Half Bad: The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – Who Takes Nathan’s Finger?
After escaping from the bar and the middle of Paris in Half Bad: The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself Episode 4, Nathan, Annalise, and...
‘Half Bad: The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap – What Is Gabriel Looking For?
Since Half Bad: The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself Episode 3 introduced us rather quickly to Gabriel, the start of this episode provides a...
‘Half Bad: The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap – Where Does Mercury’s Map Lead?
You know how some people talk or walk in their sleep? Well, Jessica shapeshifts in hers. Lying next to Kieran, whom she has obviously spent...
‘Half Bad: The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap – What is Soul Hiding?
The last we saw of Nathan in Half Bad: The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself Episode 1, his caravan was being surrounded by the...
‘Half Bad: The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself’ Season 1, Episode 1 Recap – Who is Nathan Byrne?
Half Bad: The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself has one of the most arresting openings of any show in quite some time. In it, a...
‘Half Bad: The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself’ Season 1 Review – Harry Potter Meets Hostel
Half Bad: The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself has everything going for it. The title can’t be ignored. The genre is young-adult fantasy, beloved...
‘Romantic Killer’ Season 1 Ending Explained – Does Anzu Find Love?
Anzu Hoshino is, like me, someone who is only really interested in chocolate, cats, and video games. Romance is the last thing on her agenda....
‘Romantic Killer’ Season 1 Review – A Modern Exploration of Romance and Identity
Based on Wataru Momose’s manga of the same name, Romantic Killer is a refreshing change of pace for a Netflix anime, given it swerves the...
‘Robbing Mussolini’ Ending Explained – How Do They Get The Gold?
Robbing Mussolini is a heist movie streaming on Netflix about a band of misfits rallied by a wartime entrepreneur to steal Mussolini’s legendary treasure. The pemise,...
‘Robbing Mussolini’ Review – Check Your Brain In At The Door
Pietro, or Isola as he likes to be known, is a thief operating in the Black Market during the closing days of World War Two...
‘Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap – What Happened in “Hedgehunter”?
In Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler Season 3, Episode 5, Bet was left in a very dangerous situation, and Alfie wondered whether he was...
‘Tales of the Jedi’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap – “Resolve”
“Resolve” is a fantastic episode of Star Wars animation, with the same sense of cinematic majesty as The Clone Wars finale but a tighter emotional...
‘Tales of the Jedi’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – “Practice Makes Perfect”
Episode 5 is the weakest short in Tales of the Jedi Season 1, at least in part because it’s so short – too short even...
‘Tales of the Jedi’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap – “The Sith Lord”
“The Sith Lord”, singular, is really about Sith Lords, multiple – at least two, but it’s the crucial turning point of a third, as this...
Tales of the Jedi Season 1, Episode 3 Recap – “Choices”
Following nicely on from Tales of the Jedi Episode 2, “Choices” catches up with an older Count Dooku on the next step of his inexorable...
Tales of the Jedi Season 1, Episode 2 Recap – “Justice”
Deviating away from Ahsoka’s origin story, which was featured in Tales of the Jedi Episode 1, “Justice” instead switches focus to Count Dooku in the...
‘Tales of the Jedi’ Season 1 Review – A Stirring But Slight Star Wars Anthology
Star Wars has never had a particularly complicated sense of morality. The bad guys all wear black, blow up planets, and command soldiers called Stormtroopers,...
‘Tales of the Jedi’ Season 1, Episode 1 Recap – “Life and Death”
The first episode of Tales of the Jedi, and the first of three centering on Ahsoka Tano, is a quiet, almost serene twenty minutes that...
‘Andor’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap – “Narkina 5”
“Narkina 5”, the title of Season 1, Episode 8 of Andor, is the name of the Imperial factory facility to which Cassian is shipped off, having been...
‘Tell Me Lies’ Season 1, Episode 10 Recap and Ending Explained – “The Bedroom of Our Friends”
Tell Me Lies episode 10 opens with the events of the first episode, and once again, we see Lucy (played by Grace Van Patten) meet her...