Articles by Jonathon Wilson
Jessica Jones Recap: A Shallow Grave
This Jessica Jones Season 3, Episode 7 recap for the episode titled “A.K.A The Double Half-Wappinger” contains spoilers. Jeri Hogarth can always be relied upon...
The Alcasser Murders Review: Another True Crime Series Arrives on Netflix
Another week, another true crime series graces Netflix — this one based on the notorious 1992 rape and murder of three 14-year-old girls in Alcasser,...
Leila Review: A Bold, Challenging Indian Original Series
The six-episode first season of the new Indian Netflix Original Series Leila is just the right kind of near-future dystopian fiction. It’s deliberately provocative, challenging, and...
Big Little Lies Recap: Meryl Streep Achieves Her Final Form
This Big Little Lies Season 2 Episode 1 recap for the episode titled “What Have They Done?” contains spoilers. With the television landscape being what...
Tales of the City Review: Is Being Well-Meaning Enough?
Is it cynical of Netflix to capitalize on Pride Month? It’s good business, for sure, and perhaps that’s all that matters, especially when the streaming...
Pachamama Review: Was Juan Antin’s Environmentally-Conscious Animation Worth the Wait?
There’s a story behind Pachamama, Juan Antin’s environmentally-conscious fun-for-all-the-family animation that debuted on Netflix today. It’s a long one, winding back over a decade, and has...
Black Mirror Season 5 Review: “Smithereens”
This Black Mirror Season 5 Episode 2 review for the episode titled “Smithereens” contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode...
Black Mirror Season 5 Review
Heading into its fifth season, Black Mirror remains one of the most oddly prescient, daringly eclectic and inherently contradictory shows in existence, and if its three-episode fifth...
Chernobyl Finale Recap: Political, Not Radioactive Fallout Defines A Disaster’s Legacy
This Chernobyl episode 5 recap for the episode titled “Vichnaya Pamyat” contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking...
Godzilla: King of the Monsters Review: A Monster Fraud
When I was eight years old, I was picked on in school for drawing Mothra in my notebook (too “girly,” I guess). I was so...
Clinton Road Review: Do a U-Turn
Clinton Road is a horror thriller from directors Richard Grieco and Steve Stanulis, starring Ace Young (Bones), Katie Morrison (The Blacklist), Erin O’Brien (Tremors), with...
Malibu Rescue Season 1 Review: Life’s A Beach
If, like me, you had the distinct displeasure of watching the prequel movie to this new teen-focused Netflix Original series, creatively titled Malibu Rescue: The Movie,...
Ma (2019) Review: Octavia Spencer Brings It In This Kitsch Blumhouser
Chillin’ with Ma, a troublingly odious but bizarrely sensitive vignette of cruel manipulation, seems like a better idea than it is in reality. Spread over...
How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast) Review: This Doesn’t Seem Like Good Advice
Provocative titles tend to do well for Netflix — just look at My Husband Won’t Fit — and so How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) is already off...
‘Killer Ratings’ Review: Did A TV Host Order Murders To Boost Ratings?
Don’t judge me for this, but if you’re the host of a TV show famous for arriving first at murder scenes, ordering those murders yourself...
Good Omens Recap: In the Beginning
This Good Omens episode 1 recap for the episode titled “In the Beginning” contains spoilers. “In the Beginning”, the first episode in the six-episode Good Omens,...
Black Spot Review: Welcome To This Weekend’s Binge Watch
At the top of the list of places I wouldn’t like to live: Villefranche, an absurdly isolated (and thankfully fictional) small town buried in a...
Archer Recap: Party Like It’s 1999
This Archer: 1999 Episode 1 recap for the episode titled “Bort the Garj” contains spoilers. At this point, the lifecycle of Archer is difficult to track; a...
Brightburn Review: An Unambitious Super-Slasher
Sometimes a movie feels like it was created with passion, and sometimes it feels “pitched.” Brightburn is a pitch film, one that sounds like an...
Avengement Review: Brutal And Brilliant Adkins Action
For those in the know, the Scott Adkins actioner is a very specific, very beautiful thing, and his recent collaborations with the reliably demented Jesse...