Articles by Jonathon Wilson
‘Red Eye’ Is A Serviceable Airborne Thriller That Swiftly Loses Altitude
Richard Armitage was built for streaming. Stick this guy in a ropey thriller with any concept you like and he’ll do a halfway decent job...
Breaking Down Every Steamy Twist In ‘The Hunting Wives’
Murder! Affairs! Megachurches! The Hunting Wives has an awful lot going on, and a lot of it is deliberately ridiculous and sensational. Across eight episodes, it weaves...
The Ending Of ‘The Hunting Wives’ Is Crazy, But Annoyingly Inconclusive
Where to even begin? It was obvious from the start that The Hunting Wives was going to take some crazy turns, but following a penultimate...
‘The Hunting Wives’ Is An Unashamedly Trashy And Ridiculous Binge
The Hunting Wives, created by Rebecca Cutter and based on the book by May Cobb, wears its original destiny as a Starz show like a...
‘Trainwreck: P.I. Moms’ Tells A Story So Wild It Could Only Be True
Trainwreck: P.I. Moms tells the kind of wacky true story that, if it were the plot of a movie or TV show, you’d write it off...
Guilty As Charged: TV Might Be The Best Way Of Challenging Big Ideas
Prime Video’s Justice on Trial, created by and starring Judge Judy Sheindlin, has a very clever premise. Perhaps more importantly, it’s a premise that could...
‘The Institute’ Barely Gets Going In Episode 3, But Signs Are Promising
I get that prison breaks are a pretty complex undertaking, but The Institute needs to speed things up.
Breaking Down the Secretive, Maddening Ending of Netflix’s ‘Delirium’
Netflix’s eight-episode Colombian drama Delirium is an ambitiously knotty exploration of generational trauma, secrets, and madness, and its ending is a twisty old thing that...
‘Delirium’ Tackles Heavy Subjects In Interesting Ways, But Something’s Missing
It’s easy to be cynical about any show marketed on its sexuality. Not that there’s anything wrong with a bit of sauce, obviously; we’re not...
The Ending Of ‘Wall to Wall’ Is Mostly Just A Mess
Years ago, when I lived alone, my neighbours were bonkers nocturnal drug addicts who never stopped banging on the walls for reasons I could never...
‘Wall to Wall’ Builds Strong Foundations But Takes A Hammer To Them
Wall to Wall is essentially two movies in one. The first is a genuinely involving and claustrophobic thriller with proper themes and compelling mysteries. The...
‘Dexter: Resurrection’ Episode 3 Brings The Dark Passengers Into Conflict
The premiere wasn't a fluke. Episode 3 of Dexter: Resurrection, aptly titled "Backseat Driver", feels like a return to the franchise of old with a tight focus on Dexter himself as he works to claim another victim.
‘Smoke’ Gets More Right Than Wrong In Episode 5
I’m not going to lie to you, I had written Smoke off. The previous episode was so deeply awful and misguided that it seemed incomprehensible the show...
‘Untamed’ Answers Every Question In A Satisfying, Conclusive Ending
Credit where it’s due – Untamed hasn’t exactly been a remarkable crime thriller, featuring many of the overly familiar hallmarks of shows in the genre,...
‘Untamed’ Feels Restrained In Episode 5, But Still Shows Depth
“Terces” feels quite light for a penultimate episode, clearly saving up most of its big revelations and developments for the finale.
‘Untamed’ Digs For Gold In Episode 4, But Doesn’t Quite Find It
As it turns out, Vasquez’s near-death experience in the previous episode is the most major breakthrough of the case thus far.
‘Untamed’ Delivers Its Best Suspense Sequence In Episode 3
This, I think, is more like it. With the identity of the mysterious Jane Doe having been discovered, several new lines of inquiry open up in Episode 3.
‘Untamed’ Episode 2 Provides A Breakthrough in the Jane Doe Case
By the end of Untamed Episode 2, Vasquez has figured out who the mysterious Jane Doe is, which is good news.
‘Untamed’ Episode 1 Builds To A Played-Out Twist
The first thing you’ll notice about Untamed is that it doesn’t look great.
‘Untamed’ Is An Outdoorsy Crime Thriller With A Contradiction At Its Core
Untamed is a much less interesting show than I expected it to be. This is a criticism, I suppose, but it feels like more of...