Jonathon Wilson

The clue is in the name, sometimes. Even if you didn’t know that HBO’s The Chair Company comes from I Think You Should Leave’s Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin, the simple fact that it’s called The Chair Company should be a bit of a giveaway that it’s slightly off-kilter as far as comedies go.

People die. This is true in real life and even truer in television shows, since drama needs conflict, and conflict is invariably kicked off and concluded with violence.

Season 3 of Billy the Kid seems best characterised as “the one where he gets ambushed everywhere he goes”, which must be demoralising when you’re trying to organise a resistance movement.

Well, we’re in the ‘90s, of that there can be no doubt. The whole aesthetic of Typhoon Family reflects the period in which it’s set, but it’s not all in service of chintzy nostalgia.

While not quite the standout that the wide-scale defence of Solaz and Daryl’s solo train side quest were, Episode 6 still feels like Season 3 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon operating at a pretty high standard.

Jeremiah Dunmire’s goons stealing the Montague 50 seemed like a much bigger deal than it ends up being in Tulsa King Season 3, Episode 4.

That excitable, itchy feeling of a penultimate episode definitely creeps into The Rainmaker here, and it’s perhaps just as well, since it hasn’t always been...

Vicious doesn’t have the kind of ending you can explain. Everyone who watches it will likely take something different from it and have a different...

A friend of mine’s dad once nailed his garden gate shut during Halloween to stop kids knocking on his door, which seemed a bit curmudgeonly...

The ending of The Woman in Cabin 10 has the curious distinction of being both too silly and ridiculous to be believed but also nowhere...

Given what The Woman in Cabin 10 is about and where it’s set, it’s hard not to feel like it misses some open goals. A...

In many ways, the ending of Peacemaker Season 2 is exactly the opposite of what audiences have come to expect from the finale of a...

If you want to build sympathy for anything in film and TV, you make it resemble an animal.

It would have been difficult for The Last Frontier to compete with its premiere in pure action terms, so in Episode 2, "Wind of Change", it doesn't bother.

If nothing else, The Last Frontier is going to be another hit for Apple TV+.

The Resurrected is an exercise in endurance from beginning to end, but the ending itself is particularly guilty of compounding one awful revelation on top...

If there’s a right month to resurrect a person, it’s probably October. Netflix is certainly banking on this, anyway, since their nine-part Taiwanese original The...

There is no way to scientifically measure this, but I reckon Maintenance Required is the most derivative romantic comedy ever made. It’s You’ve Got Mail,...

Gen V Season 2 continues to lean on more explicit cameos and connections to The Boys.

You can’t say I didn’t warn you. It was only a matter of time before the cracks started to emerge in Karl and Cassandra’s relationship.