Articles by Jonathon Wilson
The Last Kingdom season 5, episode 9 recap – a daring infiltration
This recap of The Last Kingdom season 5, episode 9 contains spoilers. As the penultimate episode of The Last Kingdom Season 5 opens, there is still a...
The Last Kingdom season 5, episode 8 recap – siding with Lord Uhtred
This recap of The Last Kingdom season 5, episode 8 contains spoilers. As a father of two girls, I can definitely relate to the frustration...
The Last Kingdom season 5, episode 7 recap – a powerful farewell
This recap of The Last Kingdom season 5, episode 7 contains spoilers. This episode of The Last Kingdom is really a masterful bit of work...
The Last Kingdom season 5, episode 6 recap – the cost of peace
This recap of The Last Kingdom season 5, episode 6 contains spoilers. There’s an impressive battle in this episode of The Last Kingdom; impressively shot,...
The Last Kingdom season 5, episode 5 recap – a plan backfires
This recap of The Last Kingdom season 5, episode 5 contains spoilers. One of the best types of on-screen villains is the political schemer. Think...
The Last Kingdom season 5, episode 4 recap – the line of succession
This recap of The Last Kingdom season 5, episode 4 contains spoilers. The thing about using rather arbitrary tests of physical endurance or faith or...
The Last Kingdom season 5, episode 3 recap – mothers and daughters
This recap of The Last Kingdom season 5, episode 3 contains spoilers. As The Last Kingdom continues to rocket through its plot, the focus in...
The Last Kingdom Season 5 review – another dose of high-quality historical action
This review of The Last Kingdom Season 5 is spoiler-free. High-quality historical epics are few and far between, but ever since 2015, The Last Kingdom — an...
The Last Kingdom season 5, episode 2 recap – sacrifice to the gods
This recap of The Last Kingdom season 5, episode 2 contains spoilers. While I was talking about Christianity in the previous recap, I forgot to...
The Last Kingdom season 5, episode 1 recap – the premiere explained
This recap of The Last Kingdom season 5, episode 1 contains spoilers. Between the recap of previous seasons, some narration, and a cold open that...
Business Proposal season 1, episode 4 recap – the truth comes out
This recap of Business Proposal season 1, episode 4, contains spoilers. When we last left our dopey main characters in Business Proposal, Ha-ri had turned...
How I Met Your Father season 1, episode 9 recap – “Jay Street”
This recap of Hulu’s How I Met Your Father season 1, episode 9 contains spoilers. Read the season 1 review. After last week’s satisfyingly dramatic...
Business Proposal season 1, episode 3 recap – keeping up appearances
This recap of Business Proposal season 1, episode 3 contains spoilers. Rom-coms rely, for the most part, on contrivance and stupidity. Things happen which otherwise...
The Walking Dead season 11, episode 11 recap – “Rogue Element”
This recap of The Walking Dead season 11, episode 11, “Rogue Element”, contains spoilers. The problem with the Commonwealth, at least insofar as its function...
‘The Invisible Thread’ Ending Explained – who Is the father of Leone?
The Italian drama The Invisible Thread is a social comedy dealing with various issues from parenting, homosexual livelihood, coming of age struggles, the film is quite...
‘The Invisible Thread’ Review – A Comedy on Dysfunctional Family and Parenting
When films try to talk about sensitive subject matters like homosexuality, the makers have to make sure they deal with the subject with utmost care....
‘The Weekend Away’ Ending Explained – Who Is The Killer?
Netflix film The Weekend Away is a mystery thriller starring Leighton Meester, Christina Wolfe, Ziad Bakri, Amar Bukvic, and Luke Norris. The film revolves around the...
Dear… Season 2 review – more of the same sanitized back-patting
This review of Dear… Season 2 is spoiler-free. Dear… is a show that absolutely should not work as well as it does, but also one...
‘The Weekend Away’ Review – A Thriller With No Thrills
A good thriller always knows how to play with the audience’s anticipations. Leighton Meester-starring Netflix film The Weekend Away misses that drastically. As a result,...
Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale review – love, care, togetherness and climate change
Netflix documentary film Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale was released on the streaming service on March 4, 2022. Climate change is one of the important...