Articles by Jonathon Wilson
‘Tastefully Yours’ Episode 2 Recap – The Story Widens A Little As It Begins To Push Forward
Tastefully Yours has a comfort that comes from familiarity. In Episode 2, it’s largely going through the motions, opening the story up a little and shunting it forward, but not threatening to veer off in any unexpected directions.
‘Bad Thoughts’ Review – Tom Segura’s Demented Netflix Sketch Show Has More Hits Than Misses
You can always rely on a comedian, especially a relatively edgy one, to push some boundaries. Tom Segura, who’s no stranger to Netflix, does that...
Micro-Reviewing Every Sketch In Tom Segura’s ‘Bad Thoughts’
Tom Segura has teamed up with Netflix to deliver a deranged anthology of sketch comedy that feels like The Twilight Zone had a love child...
‘Untold: The Liver King’ Review – A Hilarious Charade, Both Intentionally and Unintentionally
Brian Johnson, aka The Liver King, is a fascinating subject for Netflix’s Untold because he’s at once both a ridiculous charlatan and an indescribably compelling...
‘Tastefully Yours’ Episode 1 Recap – Comfort Food In Television Form
Sometimes what people want from their entertainment is comfort and familiarity, and that definitely seems to be the kind of audience Tastefully Yours is courting, at least as far as Episode 1 is concerned.
‘The Last of Us’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap – They’re Getting This Story Completely Wrong
It was always going to be difficult to adapt The Last of Us Part II, which is a game that relies on the fundamental expectations of video games as a medium to tell a pretty complex story about grief, revenge, and various other attendant matters, none of them particularly positive.
‘Heavenly Ever After’ Episodes 7 & 8 Recap – And Things Are Starting To Sag
Maybe it’s just me, but Heavenly Ever After is starting to feel like a lot. It could be the episode runtimes, granted, which stretch to almost feature-length twice a week.
‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap – Impressively Stupid Television
I've never been on board with the idea of hate-watching something. It seems like a waste of time to me.
‘MobLand’ Episode 7 Recap – Tom Hardy’s One-Man-Army Heroics Expand the Show’s Mythology
Until now, MobLand has been a tale of two families who each possess a relatively even share of London’s criminal underworld, but Episode 7, “The Crossroads”, introduces much bigger fish to that relatively tiny pond.
‘Tin Soldier’ Review – An Inexplicably Good Cast Obscures A Thoroughly Terrible Movie
I have no idea what Tin Soldier is, where it came from, how it was released, or who thought it’d be a good idea. Only...
‘Nonnas’ Review – Netflix’s Frictionless Foodie Drama Is Just Charming Enough
Sometimes a movie exists for no better reason than to simply mind its business, and that’s very much the vibe I get from Nonnas. It’s...
‘Bad Influence’ Ending Explained – Netflix’s Teen Romance Goes Completely Off the Rails
I know what you’re thinking – a teen romance about two radically different but implausibly attractive people has to have a happy ending, right? The...
‘Bad Influence’ Review – Netflix’s Spanish Teen Erotica Hits The Usual Notes
There’s a very simple and obvious formula for a movie like Bad Influence, which shouldn’t be confused with Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, a...
‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ Episode 6 Recap – Hope Is The Most Dangerous Thing Of All
If we're being frank, Your Friends & Neighbors hasn't been an especially contemplative show, which is perhaps why Episode 6 is such a standout installment.
‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ Episode 5 Recap – And We’re Finally Back at the Beginning
It has taken Your Friends & Neighbors five weeks to circle back to the brutal crime scene it began with, but Episode 5 finally gets us there with a little more context.
‘The Studio’ Episode 8 Recap – Matt’s Ego Takes Another Heavy Hit
The Studio is a show about Hollywood that clearly enjoys an impressive amount of access to its stars and executives, but it has rarely felt quite as insider-y as it does in Episode 8, aptly titled “The Golden Globes”.
‘Untold: Shooting Guards’ Review – This Is The Pettiest High-Profile Sports Story Of All Time
It wouldn’t quite be accurate to call Untold: Shooting Guards a tale of two halves, but it’s pretty close. At a certain point in the...
‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Season 2 Premiere Recap – A Man and His Bat
Conceptually, The Walking Dead: Dead City was supposed to capitalize on the unresolved and oddly sexually charged relationship between Maggie and Negan.
‘Heavenly Ever After’ Episodes 5 & 6 Recap – To Hell and Back Again
I do wonder if Heavenly Ever After might be too mawkish for its own good. I continue to enjoy the K-Drama, don’t get me wrong, but in Episodes 5 & 6, I began to drift a little.
‘MobLand’ Episode 6 Recap – The Harrigans Are Historically and Now Internationally Awful
After MobLand revealed that we’d been following the bad guys all along, Episode 6 completely doubles down on the idea, as well as taking the Harrigans’ nonsense international (hence the title, “Antwerp Blues”).