Jonathon Wilson

Dragon Age: Absolution opens in Nevarra, a kingdom with the distinction of having been namechecked in all three of the games. The protagonist, Miriam, is...

Video game adaptations are rightly maligned, but recently, Netflix seems to have discovered the secret to them. The key, I think, is to avoid big-name...

Adapted from the popular webtoon by Park Tae-joon, Lookism is a Korean Netflix anime about social cruelty, superficiality, and ultimately kindness and understanding. The show’s...

If I had to pick a word to describe Lookism, the new South Korean Netflix anime that was delayed several weeks ago following the tragedy...

Connect is a k-drama directed by legendary Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, and it’s a wild, genre-blending ride across its six-episode run. While the finale, “Confusion”,...

Disney+ continues to muscle in on the K-drama market with Connect, a genre-blending K-drama from legendary Japanese director Takashi Miike. Across six mind-bending episodes, the series combines a serial killer...

You can fault Disney for a lot of things, but they’re not the type to miss any kind of pop-culture boom. So, it was only...

When you revive an old cult franchise like Willow, it’s always going to be a balance between old and new. Years have elapsed both in...

His Dark Materials is one of those big, ambitious, complex stories that require a bit of detective work when you return to it after a...

I haven’t quite taken to Harper and Ethan in this season of The White Lotus. They’ve been interesting enough, I suppose, but their dynamic –...

There is so much about “Watch ‘Em Ride Away” that should be ridiculous that it’s almost embarrassing how much I enjoyed it – and that’s...

Has it been long enough that media about global plagues doesn’t feel distasteful anymore? Mileage may vary, I suppose. But at the very least, the...

The plot of Hot Skull revolves around an epidemic called ARDS, colloquially referred to as “jabbering” since it causes those infected to spout a load...

The Polish Netflix series Dead End is a deliberately eccentric, genre-blending story about four people thrust together by a flurry of bad decisions, coincidences, and...

Dead End is the kind of show that has no idea what it wants to be and is hoping to figure things out as it...

So, folks, we’ve reached what amounts to the midseason finale, and it’s impressive how much “Brother Blood” feels like one despite the majority of it...

In a world where Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power didn’t exist, the Disney+...

There is so much going wrong for the crew and passengers in the Avenue 5 Season 2 finale that recapping it feels like being Ryan...

I’ve said this before, but it’s worth reiterating: The White Lotus is just as much about the things it’s pretending to be as the things...

The funny thing about Yellowstone is that the people we’re supposed to be rooting for would be the villains in just about any other story....