Articles by Jonathon Wilson
‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap – Who Is The Wookie Jedi?
Every piece of Star Wars media, no matter when it’s set, is almost obligated to include a Jedi and a lightsaber at some point, and...
‘National Treasure: Edge of History’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap – Who is Salazar?
Well, it took nine episodes, but National Treasure: Edge of History finally delivered some proper narrative development, including what seems to be a major character...
The Kidnapper of Amaya in ‘The Snow Girl’ Explained
Amaya was kidnapped by Iris Molina and her husband, Santiago, in The Snow Girl. Iris was one of Amaya’s mother’s patients at a fertility clinic and...
‘Godfather of Harlem’ Season 3, Episode 3 Recap – How Does Jose Battle Get His Guns?
In Godfather of Harlem Season 3, Episode 2, Bumpy formed an alliance with Cuban gun-smuggler Jose Battle to hopefully scare away the Italian Families. The...
‘Mayfair Witches’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap – How Is Lasher Connected to Rowan?
Family is a funny old thing, isn’t it? For Rowan, it’s something she has always craved, even before it was revealed that the life she...
‘The Snow Girl’ Season 1 Ending Explained – Why Was Amaya Taken?
The Spanish Netflix thriller The Snow Girl revolves primarily around the disappearance of a five-year-old girl named Amaya, and the dogged efforts of both the...
‘The Snow Girl’ Season 1 Review – Dour Subject Matter Hides a Solid Mystery
Netflix’s Spanish thriller The Snow Girl, based on the book La chica de nieve by Javier Castillo with some key changes, is a horrifying what-if scenario...
‘Lockwood and Co.’ Season 1 Ending Explained – How Is the Mirror Destroyed?
Now we’re at the end of the first season of Lockwood & Co., it’s easy to look back and see just how good of a...
‘Lockwood and Co’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap – Why Is George Mesmerized?
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...
‘Lockwood and Co’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap – What Is Penelope Up To?
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...
‘Lockwood and Co’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – Who Is Flo Bones?
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...
‘Lockwood and Co’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap – What Is Buried In the Grave?
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...
‘Lockwood and Co’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap – Who Killed Annabel Ward?
To recap: the kids of Lockwood & Co. are trying to solve the murder of a dead Hollywood starlet named Annabel Ward, presumably committed by...
‘Lockwood and Co’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap – What Is DEPRAC?
The selling point of Lockwood & Co. — the agency, not the show itself — is that it’s independent, run entirely by children, and not...
‘Lockwood and Co’ Season 1, Episode 1 Recap – What Is The Problem?
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...
‘Lockwood and Co’ Season 1 Review – Stylish, Atmospheric, and Very British Teen Fantasy
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,...
‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap – What Is the Treasure of Skara Nal?
The Bad Batch goes all Indiana Jones this week, delivering another mostly standalone adventure – though admittedly with some worldbuilding implications – involving the whole...
‘National Treasure: Edge of History’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap – How Does Jess Break Rafael Out of Prison?
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...
‘Godfather of Harlem’ Season 3, Episode 2 Recap – How Does Bumpy Find a Partnership?
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...
‘Mayfair Witches’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap – “Second Line”
“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...