Articles by Jonathon Wilson
‘The Witcher’ Season 4, Episode 5 Recap – Word Travels Fast
Not to get all philosophical on anyone, but sometimes resting is the quickest way to get somewhere. But this is a difficult concept to get...
‘The Witcher’ Season 4, Episode 4 Recap – Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire
“Out of the frying pan, into the fire” comes to mind. To be fair, you could apply this idea to most of what has happened...
‘The Witcher’ Season 4, Episode 3 Recap – Half A World Away
In my review of The Witcher Season 4, I moaned about the whole thing feeling a little weirdly siloed and disconnected, its core storylines happening in parallel...
‘The Witcher’ Season 4 Review – Liam Hemsworth Is the Least Of The Problems
Let’s just get the elephant in the room out of the way – Liam Hemsworth is fine. Sure, he’s visibly doing an impression of Henry...
‘The Witcher’ Season 4, Episode 2 Recap – New Additions and Alliances
Witchers are labourers, essentially. The labour is just hunting and killing monsters. They’re fantastical pest controllers, really, itinerant exterminators who will do the dirty jobs...
‘The Witcher’ Season 4, Episode 1 Recap – Don’t Worry, Everything Is Fine
Season 4 of The Witcher has its back against the wall in the most considerable way possible. Nobody liked the previous season very much, and that was...
‘High Potential’ Season 2, Episode 7 Recap – Mid-Season Finale Finally Creates Real Conflict
I’ve always maintained that High Potential works better when it legitimately challenges Morgan.
‘Star Wars: Visions’ Season 3 Review – A Mixed-Bag Of Shorts Containing A Masterpiece
There’s a very compelling argument to be made that, at least under Disney, Star Wars: Visions is the most interesting and perhaps even important project...
Breaking Down Every Short In ‘Star Wars: Visions’ Season 3
Star Wars: Visions returns for Season 3 with another batch of experimental non-canon short films plucked from prominent animation studios all over the world. As ever,...
‘Down Cemetery Road’ Episode 2 Recap – A Fun Twist Livens Things Up
Being told your husband is dead is probably quite hard to take at the best of times, but finding out while you're having an affair with another man likely carries an additional pang of guilt.
‘Down Cemetery Road’ Episode 1 Recap – Kicking Things Off With A Bang
It's immediately obvious that Down Cemetery Road shares a lot of DNA and creative personnel with Slow Horses.
‘The Morning Show’ Season 4, Episode 7 Recap – And It Finally Happened
Remember how badly the very mention of Claire Conway's name rattled Yanko earlier in The Morning Show Season 4?
‘Loot’ Season 3, Episode 4 Recap – Finally, Things Are Back On Form
It wouldn't be hard to improve on the latest episode of Loot Season 3, a deeply lazy grab-bag of semi-offensive cliches about England that didn't have much of a point beyond Molly trying to repair her floundering reputation.
‘Slow Horses’ Season 5 Ending Explained – The More Things Change…
And just like that — this show should have more than six episodes per season, shouldn’t it? — we’ve reached the end. Again. Slow Horses is consistently...
‘Watson’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap – I’m Not Sure This Show Is Working
With Watson Season 2 having moved on from Sherlock Holmes as quickly as he was introduced, Episode 3, “Expletive Deleted”, has the advantage of being able to push forward with the case of the week as a pure medical mystery.
‘Watson’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap – Even Sherlock Holmes Doesn’t Add Anything
I guess enough time has passed for an episode about a pandemic, even a tiny one that only flirts with the idea of becoming a wide-scale health event.
‘DMV’ Episode 3 Recap – What’s One More Bad Driver?
DMV can get away with a lot because it's genuinely funny more often than it isn't.
‘Nightmares of Nature’ Season 2 Review – “Lost in the Jungle” Is A Big Step Up
I already liked Nightmares of Nature. It was a great idea – balancing the education of nature documentaries with the entertainment of a classically styled...
‘Chad Powers’ Ending Explained – A Surprisingly Emotional, Subversive Finale
I’ve been a fan of Chad Powers since the beginning, but I’m quite happy to admit that the one thing it hasn’t been is unconventional. A hodgepodge...
‘Brilliant Minds’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap – There’s A Lot Going On Here
Let's just get this out of the way -- there's far too much going on in "The Doctor's Graveyard".