Jonathon Wilson

You’ll recall that in Episode 2 of Alice in Borderland Season 2, Tatta was given the unenviable task of guarding the base during the game of...

The name of the game is Osmosis, so-called after the basic scientific principle. The King of Clubs, who we met at the end of the...

I think I can say confidently that Alice in Borderland is the only show to have ever had a flashback as specific as “13 minutes ago”....

It’s a pretty commonly accepted sentiment that screen adaptations are never quite as good as the books, and while that stands true more often than...

“Wildwood” begins with a direct continuation from the cliffhanger ending of Episode 4, in which the Gales, dark, creepily-designed servants of the Withered Crone, set...

The double-bill premiere of National Treasure: Edge of History ended with what to the characters was a big revelation but to anyone who has ever seen...

Yellowstone doesn’t abuse flashbacks as much as most shows do. In fact, they’re usually worth looking forward to, since they dispense important character backstories, set...

Nigeria’s first young-adult drama on Netflix is in the form of Far From Home, a five-episode splice of teen shenanigans and a crime plot about a...

The Nigerian Netflix series Far From Home is a young-adult drama blending teenage shenanigans with a crime plot, and in the first season finale, “Revelations Are Forever”,...

Not long after the latest season of Blood & Water, Netflix are delivering another African Original in the form of Far From Home, a Nigerian series that...

Season 2, Episode 7 of The Mosquito Coast is set around Easter and makes a big song and dance about the burning of an effigy of...

Willow changes tack a little this week and becomes, essentially, a haunted house horror, as the gang takes refuge in Nockmaar, the former fortress of...

Oh, National Treasure. Everyone remembers it. And, as bulletproof as my nostalgia for mid-2000s action-adventure filmmaking tends to be, I’m pretty sure most people remember...

Gudetama: An Eggcellent Adventure is a charming Netflix anime with visuals by OLM with help from L’ESPACE FILM, about a lazy egg, the titular Gudetama, and a spunky freshly-hatched...

Sometimes a show comes along that is simply unlike any other, and Gudetama: An Eggcellent Adventure is very much one of them. Following the exploits...

It’s cheating using animals, isn’t it? In Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials universe, a person’s daemon is their soul; the external, physical manifestation of their...

I mentioned in my recap of Season 5, Episode 5 that Yellowstone had managed, in its own unique and specific way, to move me with...

It’d be difficult to say that anything about “Arrivederci”, the second season finale of The White Lotus on HBO, was really all that surprising. While...

Another episode of The Mosquito Coast that really fails to justify its existence. In fact, and this is a bold statement, I think it might...

The second season of The Mosquito Coast is going to have ten episodes, and no matter what angle I try to view that decision from,...