Articles by Jonathon Wilson
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2 Casting Continues to Stoke Toxicity and Body Shaming
Fandoms really do suck, don’t they? They’re impossible to please at the best of times, especially when it comes to extremely beloved masterpiece properties like...
‘Citizen Vigilante’ and the Streisand Effect: A Loss For Art Is A Win For Cult Marketing
Citizen Vigilante shouldn’t be successful if you think about it. It’s a deeply terrible movie on a technical level and a wildly irresponsible one morally,...
Waiting It Out: A Timeline Of Louis C.K.’s Shrugging Return to the Mainstream in ‘Ridiculous’
While he wasn’t the first, and he certainly won’t be the last, Louis C.K.’s cancellation and subsequent career renaissance is one of the more instructive...
Emma D’Arcy’s Emmy-Worthy Performance Is the Secret Weapon Of ‘House of Dragon’
I watch House of the Dragon for the dragons. I watch for the swords and the pitched battles and the kind of CGI that only...
Armie Hammer’s Role In ‘Citizen Vigilante’ Is The Latest In A Long Line Of Post-Cancellation Comebacks
While the selling point of Citizen Vigilante, at least for its target demographic, is undoubtedly all the Muslim murdering, it’s undoubtedly a fascinating case study in...
‘Agent Kim Reactivated’ Is Off To A Racing Start Among K-Drama Fans: “Very Exciting, Very Fun”
There is arguably no audience more passionate than die-hard K-Drama fans, which means that first impressions are unusually important when it comes to new releases....
How ‘House of the Dragon’ Tweaked Rhaenyra’s Coronation — And Why It Worked
Season 3 of House of the Dragon continues to be about big moments almost exclusively. The premiere, which revolved around the Battle of the Gullet, killed off...
‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3, Episode 2 Recap – There Might Be Too Many Characters In This
Giant battles full of dragons and destruction are all well and good, but the heart of a story like House of the Dragon lives in the aftermath. It beats to the rhythm of bodies washing up against the rocks of a shoreline and hides in the wreckage of naval fleets razed to matchsticks.
‘Citizen Vigilante’ Ending Explained – Why the Climax Is an Explicit Call to Arms
As obviously dreadful a film as Citizen Vigilante is, its cult success has become impossible to ignore (and has perhaps even spawned a sequel already)....
Is Fatima Gone for Good? Survival In ‘From’ Comes At A Cost
The finale of From Season 4 killed off several main characters, some of them in messy circumstances, but of everyone’s outcomes, it was definitely Fatima’s ambiguous fate...
Bones and Bottles: Is ‘From’ All Just A Big Game Between Gods?
Quite a lot happened in the finale of From Season 4, including several major character deaths. But the big long-term takeaway is how it reshapes the overarching...
‘Agent Kim Reactivated’ Premiere Recap – Getting Back to Work
You know exactly where Agent Kim Reactivated is going in Episode 1 and 2, but this isn’t a criticism. It’s one of those stories – think John Wick or Nobody – that hinges on the catharsis of a seemingly ordinary, run-of-the-mill guy secretly being an all-action killing machine, so the premiere is about fostering that vibe.
‘From’ Season 4 Ending Explained – Well, That Didn’t Go So Good
Okay, folks, we’ve got a lot to go over. Even though it can’t be said that the finale of From Season 4 was full of surprises, since...
‘Little Brother’ Is A Pleasant Surprise, and John Cena Is the Perfect Star For It
Netflix’s Little Brother is an unashamedly silly movie, and given the R-rating, I must confess to having entered it expecting the John Cena equivalent of...
Uwe Boll Has Confirmed ‘Citizen Vigilante 2’ With A Terrible Poster; Gibbering Has Intensified
Given that I’ve already had to make several social media accounts private this week because people who claim to want to protect our women and...
Is Apple TV’s ‘Cape Fear’ TOO Crazy? Fans Remain Extremely Mixed After Latest Episode
Whenever I find myself on the wrong side of a consensus, I can usually see it coming. I’ve been writing about film and TV professionally...
‘Sugar’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap – There Is More Than One Way to Belong
John Sugar is an immigrant, a literal alien, which is probably worth keeping in the back of your mind when watching Season 2 of Sugar. Not that the show is going to let you forget it, at least not based on Episode 2, “Downer Town”, which is very much backdropped by the idea of people making their way in strange places that are often hostile to them, and feeling, privately, that they’re completely on their own in doing so.
‘Star City’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap – A Stiflingly Tense, Riveting Hour
In many ways, it feels like “Awl in a Sack” is the episode that Star City has been building up to throughout Season 1. It’s...
‘Dutton Ranch’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap – I’m So Sick Of This Kid
I get that it’s a little too easy to complain about Carter every week, but I just can’t help it. Dutton Ranch continues to orbit inexplicably around...
‘Cape Fear’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – A Little Too Close to Home
The mystery about Nevaeh potentially being Max Cady’s daughter lasted until the opening scene of Cape Fear Episode 5, where it’s confirmed outright. You’d think...