Articles by Jonathon Wilson
‘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...
‘Avenue 5’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap – “Is It a Good Dot?”
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,...
‘The Patient’ Season 1 Ending Explained
“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...
‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap – “What Happened to Josh?”
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...
‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Season 3, Episode 5 Recap – “Paranormal Rangers”
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...
‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Season 3, Episode 4 Recap – “Death in a Vegas Motel”
“Death in a Vegas Motel” is the first episode of Season 3 of Unsolved Mysteries that has really made me think, “Yeah, that’s pretty suspicious.”...
‘Reasonable Doubt’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap – “Renegade”
Season 1, Episode 5 ended with Jax (played by Emayatzy Corinealdi) calling either Damon (played by Michael Ealy) or Lewis (played by McKinley Freeman) and...
’28 Days Haunted’ Season 2 Renewal Chances
Just in time for Halloween, 28 Days Haunted is taking the streaming world by storm. Why? Well, it’s pretty evenly split at the moment between people...
‘The Serpent Queen’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap – What Happened in “An Attack on the King”
As The Serpent Queen’s framing device gets closer than ever to its present-day shenanigans, Season 1, Episode 7, “An Attack on the King” switches perspectives....
‘The Walking Dead’ Season 11, Episode 20 Recap – “What’s Been Lost”
Two things of particular significance happen in The Walking Dead Season 11, Episode 20. The first is a character who has been neglected throughout the...
‘American Gigolo’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap – “Atomic”
When does the present start being the past? That seems like a question with an obvious answer, but it isn’t remotely obvious for Julian Kaye....
‘Barbarians’ Season 2 Ending Explained
So, after the shocking revelation in Barbarians Season 2, Episode 5 that a seemingly endless supply of Roman ships is about to arrive, the tribes are...
‘Barbarians’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap – “Doomed”
It’s just like the Romans to launch even a surprise attack against unarmed opponents from a safe distance. As we discovered at the very end...
‘Barbarians’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – “The Oath”
In Barbarians Season 2, Episode 3, Ari named Marbod the king of the united Germanic tribes. It’s not quite official yet — there needs to be...
‘Barbarians’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap – “Fathers”
After his entirely unsubtle escape from the Roman camp in Barbarians Season 2, Episode 2, Ari is being pursued by a cadre of soldiers, which...
‘Barbarians’ Season 2 Review – An Enjoyably Bloody Historical Escapade
Barbarians, a German Netflix series dramatizing the famed Battle of the Teutoburg Forest fought between the barbarian tribes and the Roman Empire, was a pretty...
‘Barbarians’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap – “Captured”
After Marbod’s betrayal in Barbarians Season 2, Episode 1, Ari has been captured by Flavus and dragged back to the Roman camp, much to the jubilation...