Articles by Jonathon Wilson
Recap: ‘Bad Monkey’ Episode 5 Gets The Pieces In Position
It would be an incredibly bold move for a crime drama to kill off its lead detective halfway through the season, so it’s perhaps just...
Recap: ‘Industry’ Season 3, Episode 5 Is An Enlightening Trip
Henry Muck might be insistent that he’s not a pervert in Episode 5 of Industry’s rather wonderful third season, but I, for one, beg to...
Recap: ‘Love Next Door’ Episode 8 Suggests A Happy Ending Isn’t A Guarantee
There’s something in the air around Episode 8 of Love Next Door, and it smells a lot like pending heartache. Based on how people have...
Recap: ‘Romance in the House’ Episode 10 Finally Reveals The Circumstances of the Fire
In Episode 10, Romance in the House finally digs deeper into Moo-jin’s past while continuing to deliver solid moments in the core relationships. Just two...
Recap: ‘Snowpiercer’ Season 4, Episode 8 Builds Big Tension and Resonant Emotional Stakes
It’s coming on the back of the season’s best episode, but “By Weeping Cross” still manages to impress, albeit in slightly different ways. Snowpiercer Season 4 has...
Recap: ‘Romance in the House’ Episode 9 Delivers Some Strong Drama
I had a thought while watching Episode 9 of Romance in the House – this is more like it. In the previous episode, Mi-rae and...
Recap: Seung-hyo Finally Says His Piece In ‘Love Next Door’ Episode 7
We’re into the back half of Love Next Door now, and I’m starting to get worried. Not about the show, of course – Episode 7...
Recap: ‘Love Next Door’ Has Its Issues, But They Don’t Matter In Episodes 5 & 6
There are criticisms that apply to Love Next Door that are as true of Episodes 5 & 6 as they have been of the previous...
Recap: In Episodes 7 & 8, ‘Romance in the House’ Finally Gets Romantic
Romance in the House enters its second half with Episodes 7 and 8, thankfully focusing on the right areas – the parental relationship between Mi-rae...
Review: ‘Rebel Ridge’ Reinvents Rambo For Netflix
Action movies have been knocking off First Blood ever since it debuted in 1982, but Jeremy Saulnier’s Rebel Ridge is the rare example of a...
‘The Perfect Couple’ In Brief: Every Episode, Suspect, Victim, and Murder
A swanky wedding, a tiny island, and a murder — this is how Netflix’s The Perfect Couple begins, and it unfurls in the tense and white-knuckle...
‘The Perfect Couple’ Has A Predictable Ending, But That’s Okay
If there’s a complaint to be leveled at Netflix’s otherwise very good whodunit The Perfect Couple, it’s that the ending is a little predictable. I,...
Review: ‘The Perfect Couple’ Is A Proper Whodunit That Doesn’t Take Itself Too Seriously
It wouldn’t take much effort to count up the obvious influences running through the veins of The Perfect Couple, Netflix’s six-part all-star whodunit. Both Knives...
‘Elite’ Season 2 Complete Recap – Every Episode, Every Mystery, Every Twist Explained
In Elite Season 2, the stakes feel higher. To compound the tragedy of a student being killed, the second season sees a student disappear, which...
Recap: The ‘English Teacher’ Two-Part Premiere Gets A Passing Grade
English Teacher doesn’t make things easy for itself. In its two-part premiere – comprising Episode 1, “Pilot”, and Episode 2, “Powderpuff” – it establishes itself...
Recap: ‘Industry’ Season 3, Episode 4 Is A Disasterclass In Stress
I’d like to make it clear that I despise Rishi Ramdani and everything he stands for to a degree that causes me to physically bristle,...
‘Chastity High’ Could Re-Enroll For Season 2, With A Darker Plot
The question of whether we’ll be returning to Asuran Academy in Chastity High Season 2 is a worthwhile one since Netflix is pretty famously keen on renewing...
‘Breathless’ Has More Than Enough Drama Leftover For Season 2
Breathless Season 2 hasn’t been confirmed yet, but the evidence suggests that we haven’t seen the last of Joaquin Sorolla Hospital. Medical dramas tend to fare...
The Ending of ‘Breathless’ Leaves Room For Some Treatment Ongoing
As they have throughout the first seven episodes of Netflix’s Spanish medical drama Breathless, the personal and professional lives of Joaquin Sorolla Hospital’s residents intertwine...
Review: ‘Breathless’ Struggles To Reconcile Conflicting Identities
Grey’s Anatomy and New Amsterdam and a smattering of other medical dramas have a lot to answer for. Netflix’s Breathless is an imitator from Spain...