Jonathon Wilson

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 has everything going for it. The title can’t be ignored. The genre is young-adult fantasy, beloved...

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....

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 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,...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

“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 episode 10 opens with the events of the first episode, and once again, we see Lucy (played by Grace Van Patten) meet her...

The terrestrial Avenue 5 show has made it to space in Season 2, Episode 3, much to Herman Judd’s displeasure. He’s barely in it, after all,...

“I usually have a beer, and try to relax.” There’s nothing unusual about that sentence. It’s something most people have probably said at some point...

Well, this one’s a doozy. Easily the best episode of Unsolved Mysteries Volume 3 thus far, Episode 6, “What Happened to Josh?” functions not only as a...

The most compelling aspect of Season 3, Episode 5, “Paranormal Rangers” is cultural specificity. It provides a new angle on the usual tales of supernatural...