RoleSenior Editor
LocationWest Yorkshire, United Kingdom
ExpertiseEditorial, Film and TV, News, Entertainment, K-Drama, Pop Culture, Rotten Tomatoes Approved, Editorial
Contribution6294 articles published since November 2017

Jonathon Wilson

Jonathon Wilson is one of Ready Steady Cut’s co-founders and has been an instrumental member of the team since its inception in 2017, with a leading role as Senior Editor.

After leaving college, Jonathon ventured into freelance writing to develop a portfolio. He was commissioned in multiple digital and print magazines for fiction and criticism before eventually pivoting to a more managerial role as the News Editor of a video game start-up (Pixels or Death).

In 2015, Jonathon published his first book, “Disfigured,” which is available digitally on Amazon.

Since helping to establish Ready Steady Cut in 2017, Jonathon has remained involved in all aspects of the site’s operation, mainly dedicated to its content output. He remains one of its primary Entertainment writers while also functioning as our dedicated Commissioning Editor, publishing over 6,500 articles. His coverage includes film, TV, entertainment, anime, true crime, and K-drama.

Jonathon’s experience and expertise in contemporary media allow him to assist our writers in producing the highest quality content tailored for savvy modern audiences.

Jonathon was also individually approved for Rotten Tomatoes and gained that status in June 2020: here is his Rotten Tomatoes Profile.

Articles by Jonathon Wilson

‘The Morning Show’ Season 4, Episode 5 Recap – Nicole Beharie, Take A Bow

October 15 2025

I was just about ready to declare Episode 5 of The Morning Show Season 4 a bit of a dud.

‘Slow Horses’ Season 5, Episode 4 Recap – It Was Just An Accident

October 15 2025

Slow Horses is a very smart show about people who're indescribably stupid or much cleverer than they look.

‘Watson’ Season 2, Episode 1 Recap – How Glad Are We That This Show Is Back?

October 14 2025

The worst thing that ever happened to Watson was Brilliant Minds. Both shows are similar enough that the comparisons are unavoidable; medical procedurals with a focus on very strange, often brain-related cases of the week.

‘Everybody Loves Me When I’m Dead’ Has The Bleakest Ending Imaginable

October 14 2025

Look, nobody, least of all me, thought that Everybody Loves Me When I’m Dead was going to have a happy ending. But I didn’t expect...

‘Everybody Loves Me When I’m Dead’ Review – A Dark, Violent Thai Thriller

October 14 2025

There’s no such thing as a victimless crime, which seems to be the underlying point of Netflix’s demented, bleak, hyper-violent Thai thriller Everybody Loves Me...

‘DMV’ Episode 1 Recap – CBS’s New Workplace Sitcom Gets Off To A Funny, Familiar Start

October 14 2025

DMV seems built on the question of what a single-camera workplace sitcom looks like when everyone hates the workplace.

‘Splinter Cell: Deathwatch’ Is Basically A Sequel To ‘Chaos Theory’

October 14 2025

The latest in an increasingly long list of Netflix animations adapting recognisable video game IP, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch joins stuff like Castlevania, Tekken, Onimusha, and...

Breaking Down Every Episode In ‘Splinter Cell: Deathwatch’ Season 1

October 14 2025

Across eight episodes, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch tells the closest thing we’ve had to an original Splinter Cell story since 2013’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist. It’s appropriately on-brand in its global scope...

‘Splinter Cell: Deathwatch’ Ending Explained – How The Netflix Series Sets Up Season 2

October 14 2025

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch has a pretty conclusive ending, let’s be frank about that. Theoretically, there’s no need to continue it any further. The bad guys are...

‘Splinter Cell: Deathwatch’ Review – Sam Fisher’s Long-Awaited Return Feels Trapped Between Worlds

October 14 2025

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch is pretty good, and it’s also likely to annoy almost everyone who watches it. At this point, Ubisoft’s edging of long-time franchise fans...

‘Chad Powers’ Episode 4 Recap – The Most Slapsticky Chapter Yet Has The Most Humanity

October 14 2025

Truth being told, I don't know what people don't like about Chad Powers. As far as comedies go, it does more or less everything right.

‘Brilliant Minds’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – I Said We Couldn’t Trust Him

October 14 2025

Brilliant Minds has always been good, and sometimes it has been very good, but in Season 2, it really might be at its peak.

‘The Chair Company’ Episode 1 Recap – Proudly Weird and Expertly Funny

October 13 2025

The clue is in the name, sometimes. Even if you didn’t know that HBO’s The Chair Company comes from I Think You Should Leave’s Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin, the simple fact that it’s called The Chair Company should be a bit of a giveaway that it’s slightly off-kilter as far as comedies go.

‘Task’ Episode 6 Recap – Watching TV Shouldn’t Be This Painful, Should It?

October 13 2025

People die. This is true in real life and even truer in television shows, since drama needs conflict, and conflict is invariably kicked off and concluded with violence.

‘Billy the Kid’ Season 3, Episode 3 Recap – It’s Finally Getting Good

October 12 2025

Season 3 of Billy the Kid seems best characterised as “the one where he gets ambushed everywhere he goes”, which must be demoralising when you’re trying to organise a resistance movement.

‘Typhoon Family’ Episodes 1 & 2 Recap – ’90s Nostalgia And Fertile Dramatic Territory

October 12 2025

Well, we’re in the ‘90s, of that there can be no doubt. The whole aesthetic of Typhoon Family reflects the period in which it’s set, but it’s not all in service of chintzy nostalgia.

‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap – So Close Yet So Far

October 12 2025

While not quite the standout that the wide-scale defence of Solaz and Daryl’s solo train side quest were, Episode 6 still feels like Season 3 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon operating at a pretty high standard.

‘Tulsa King’ Season 3, Episode 4 Recap – It’s A Family Affair

October 12 2025

Jeremiah Dunmire’s goons stealing the Montague 50 seemed like a much bigger deal than it ends up being in Tulsa King Season 3, Episode 4.

‘The Rainmaker’ Episode 9 Recap – Rudy’s Day In Court Doesn’t Go To Plan

October 11 2025

That excitable, itchy feeling of a penultimate episode definitely creeps into The Rainmaker here, and it’s perhaps just as well, since it hasn’t always been...

You’re Not Supposed To Understand the Ending Of ‘Vicious’

October 10 2025

Vicious doesn’t have the kind of ending you can explain. Everyone who watches it will likely take something different from it and have a different...