Articles by Jonathon Wilson
Recovery Boys Review
According to some relevant factoids deployed at the end of Netflix’s new original documentary, 90% of Americans who need help recovering from drug addiction don’t...
Us and Them (Hou lai de wo men) Review
Us and Them / Hou lai de wo men tells the story of how two strangers who met by pure chance during the Chunyun period...
Escape Plan 2: Hades Review
In Escape Plan, the first film, Sylvester Stallone played Ray Breslin, a former prosecutor whose wife and child were murdered by an escaped convict he...
Succession Season 1 Episode 3 Recap – What Happened in “Lifeboats”?
The lifeboats of this episode title are ideas – modern, exciting ideas, like virtual reality or, as new Waystar-Royco COO Roman Roy suggests, porn. “There...
Lust Stories Review
New to Netflix, Lust Stories bring us four unique tales, all exploring themes of love, adultery and of course lust. Set in India, each short...
Sunday’s Illness Review
A not particularly fun fact about me is that my father left my mother when she fell pregnant. I’ve never met him or communicated with...
Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Episode 3 Review
This review contains spoilers for Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Episode 3: “Stained Glass”. Hold on a minute, Marvel, I thought we were finished with Legion?...
Marvel’s Luke Cage Season 2 Review
When the first season of Marvel’s Luke Cage was released, a bulletproof black American was the most potent political statement one might hope to find...
Condor Premiere Review
This review contains spoilers for the Condor premiere episode, “What Loneliness”. Okay, let me get this straight. First, in 1974, was the novel Six Days...
Succession Season 1 Episode 2 Recap – What Happened in “S… Show at the F… Factory”?
Even though I rather liked the premiere episode of Succession, I can’t say I was particularly enthused about tuning in again today. There must be...
‘Vida’ Season 1 Ending Explained – Redefining Home in Episode 6
Throughout the first season of Vida, Lyn, and Emma, and all the inhabitants of their East Los Angeles neighborhood, have grappled with the concept of...
‘Patrick Melrose’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – “At Last”
“An orphan at last, just what I’ve always wanted,” says Patrick Melrose in the fifth and final episode of this wonderful series. Adapted from the...
Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Episode 1 & 2 Review
Despite being poised to become the next young-adult fascination, Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger doesn’t really feel like a show for teenagers, or really like a...
Sense8 Season 2 Episode 12 Review
In early 2017, Netflix notoriously undertook its very own canceling binge, discontinuing any show that did not meet the same viewing figures as shows perhaps...
Love Island Season 4 Premiere Review
Editor’s note: I don’t watch Love Island because I’m a person who reads books. But my long-time partner Olivia watches Love Island, and because I...
A Very English Scandal Finale Review
I’ve heard some complaints about the tone of the A Very English Scandal finale being wrong, and indeed that all three episodes of the BBC’s...
‘Vida’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – From Mourning to Revelry in an Evolving Neighborhood
Vida Season 1, Episode 5 opened to the sound of rhythmic chanting as Eddy and a group of elderly Latina women fondled rosary beads and...
‘Patrick Melrose’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap – “Mother’s Milk”
In Patrick Melrose Season 1, Episode 4, adapted from Edward St Aubyn’s novel “Mother’s Milk,” an older Patrick, now a barrister and married with two...
Bulletproof Episode 3 Review
There’s an overarching plot in Bulletproof, one involving a gunman with a skin condition whose weapon of choice is a firearm from the 1930s. We...
Sara’s Notebook (El cuaderno de Sara) Review
Sara’s Notebook is remarkable throughout, raising important questions of morality and exposing the true fickleness of mortality. Following Laura, we are taken on a journey of...