Articles by Jonathon Wilson
‘Boston Blue’ Episode 8 Recap – The Best Outing of the Season Thus Far
I’ve been moaning about Boston Blue’s lack of meaningful conflict. But I’m beginning to wonder if maybe the real thing that was missing was depth.
‘City of Shadows’ Ending Explained – Baptism By Fire
There’s a lot of fire in City of Shadows. Flames form a recurring motif; for revenge, for rebirth, for all kinds of the usual ideas...
‘City of Shadows’ Review – Netflix’s Catalonian Answer to Dan Brown Thrillers
Slipping right into the storied streaming canon about maverick detectives with haunted backstories solving major crimes in European cities, City of Shadows is the latest...
‘Spartacus: House of Ashur’ Episode 3 Recap – Shady Secret Missions Afoot
The ironic thing about a title like "Unworthy" is that it's a reminder that pretty much nobody in Spartacus: House of Ashur is all that worthy of the positions they find themselves in.
‘Pluribus’ Episode 7 Recap – The Real Horror Is Being Alone
For a while, the hook of Pluribus was that Carol was completely alone. This quickly turned out to be an exaggeration. She was introduced to other English-speaking survivors almost immediately, and even made friends, sort of, with the Others themselves.
‘Merv’ Review – Proof That Dogs Improve Even Bad Movies
Much like how “horror movie, but with a dog” was more than enough of an elevator pitch for Good Boy, “rom com, but with a...
‘Palm Royale’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap – Love Is Very Much Not in the Air
You can describe Palm Royale as many things, but romantic isn’t one of them. There are lots of romances, sure, but they’re always silly, or scandalous, or transactional, which has been as true in Season 2 as it was in the first outing.
‘Down Cemetery Road’ Ending Explained – A Satisfying But Unsurprising Finale
After an outing that felt like a penultimate episode but wasn’t, then a penultimate episode that felt like a finale, it’s probably only right that...
‘Loot’ Season 3 Ending Explained – A Perfectly Fine Finale
I’m happy to report that the ending of Loot Season 3 is a lot better than I expected it to be, given the currently ropey state of...
‘DMV’ Episode 9 Recap – Leslie Jones Spices Up A Festive Midseason Finale
Trust DMV to radically improve just in time for the midseason finale.
‘Watson’ Season 2, Episode 9 Recap – It’s All Getting Weird and Rubbish Again
It turns out Laila is still in Watson Season 2 after all, but her sudden reappearance in Episode 9 causes more problems than it fixes.
‘All’s Fair’ Ending Explained – As Utterly Ridiculous As Expected
Well, it has been an interesting season, hasn’t it? You can accuse All’s Fair of many things, but only rarely are we confronted with such...
‘I Love LA’ Episode 6 Recap – The Darkness Is Emerging
I Love LA has been a comedy since the beginning, and it’s still a comedy in Episode 6, but only just.
‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Episode 7 Recap – Two Clowns for the Price Of One
Whenever people think of It, they invariably think of a scary dancing clown, but if Welcome to Derry is proving anything, it’s that Pennywise is the least of Derry’s problems.
‘Pro Bono’ Episode 1 & 2 Recap – A Familiar-Feeling Procedural With Charm
Pro Bono feels like a pretty safe bet for fans of Jung Kyung-ho and the kind of weekend streaming K-Dramas that feel more like a reassuring hug than anything genuinely provocative.
‘Spartacus: House of Ashur’ Premiere Recap – Back Like It Never Left
Spartacus: House of Ashur is a story about second chances. For one thing, it’s a return to Starz’s beloved, ridiculous historical epic, one of the shows on which the platform built its reputation for blood by the bucket-load and boobs by the barrel.
‘Robin Hood’ Episode 7 Recap – Romance Is In the Air (For Some Reason)
When you think of Robin Hood, you think of arrows and bags of gold and tights. I do, anyway.
‘Landman’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – Give Sam Elliott All the Awards
Taylor Sheridan has always had an odd fascination with having his plots turn on totally random events. Sometimes it's an errant bear -- between Yellowstone and Mayor of Kingstown, events have been bear-related surprisingly often -- and sometimes it's a meth lab or a traffic pileup or whatever.
‘Mayor of Kingstown’ Season 4, Episode 7 Recap – A Plan Is Coming Together
The old chess metaphor is pretty played out, but it's by far the most appropriate one to describe what's happening in Mayor of Kingstown Season 4.
‘Sheriff Country’ Episode 7 Recap – Things Aren’t Done Between Mickey and Travis
Sheriff Country has some mixed subplots in terms of quality, there’s no doubt about that, but it’s similarly inarguable that the main thrust of it is really very good.