RoleSenior Editor
LocationWest Yorkshire, United Kingdom
ExpertiseEditorial, Film and TV, News, Entertainment, K-Drama, Pop Culture, Rotten Tomatoes Approved, Editorial
Contribution6440 articles published since November 2017

Jonathon Wilson

Jonathon Wilson is one of Ready Steady Cut’s co-founders and has been an instrumental member of the team since its inception in 2017, with a leading role as Senior Editor.

After leaving college, Jonathon ventured into freelance writing to develop a portfolio. He was commissioned in multiple digital and print magazines for fiction and criticism before eventually pivoting to a more managerial role as the News Editor of a video game start-up (Pixels or Death).

In 2015, Jonathon published his first book, “Disfigured,” which is available digitally on Amazon.

Since helping to establish Ready Steady Cut in 2017, Jonathon has remained involved in all aspects of the site’s operation, mainly dedicated to its content output. He remains one of its primary Entertainment writers while also functioning as our dedicated Commissioning Editor, publishing over 6,500 articles. His coverage includes film, TV, entertainment, anime, true crime, and K-drama.

Jonathon’s experience and expertise in contemporary media allow him to assist our writers in producing the highest quality content tailored for savvy modern audiences.

Jonathon was also individually approved for Rotten Tomatoes and gained that status in June 2020: here is his Rotten Tomatoes Profile.

Articles by Jonathon Wilson

‘Fatal Seduction’ Season 2 Ending Explained – A Surprisingly Thorough Conclusion

August 15 2025

Hey, credit where it’s due. Fatal Seduction Season 2 isn’t just a significant improvement over its predecessor, but it also has a proper ending, which,...

‘Fatal Seduction’ Season 2 Review – A More Typical Thriller With A Few Bad Habits

August 15 2025

The first season of Fatal Seduction, which was unashamedly an almost shot-for-shot remake of Netflix’s Mexican telenovela Dark Desire, had its fans. I don’t know...

‘Dexter: Resurrection’ Episode 7 Recap – Show and Tell On Steroids

August 15 2025

Part of the fun of any Dexter show is wondering how he’s going to keep getting away with it, but even by franchise standards, Episode 7 of Dexter:...

‘Smoke’ Ending Explained – Well, That’s Going To Be Divisive, Isn’t It?

August 15 2025

You can tell that the ending of Smoke is going to be one of those that defines how people feel about the show overall. It might retroactively...

‘Chief of War’ Episode 4 Recap – The King Is Dead (And Other Issues)

August 15 2025

In another relatively subdued chapter, Chief of War continues to skillfully set the stage for enormous conflicts to come.

‘Miss Governor’ Part 2 Ending Explained – And, Predictably, We Have A Cliffhanger

August 14 2025

The first part of Miss Governor — previously titled She the People, which has been annoyingly changed without explanation — ended on a rather promising note, with Antoinette,...

‘Twisted Metal’ Season 2, Episode 7 Recap – Mayhem’s First Time

August 14 2025

The first major round in the Twisted Metal tournament isn't especially interesting, which, it turns out, is by design.

‘Twisted Metal’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap – Bet You Weren’t Expecting That

August 14 2025

Killing off major characters is often seen as a pretty cheap way of farming audience engagement.

‘Fixed’ Review – Netflix’s R-Rated Dog Comedy Has No New Tricks

August 13 2025

Dogs have always been a movie-making cheat code, the easiest shortcut to making an audience laugh or cry – or both! – as necessary. The...

‘Alien: Earth’ Episode 2 Recap – (Chest-)Bursting With Xenomorph Goodness

August 13 2025

I get that it’d be a stretch to say the Xenomorphs are the good guys in Alien: Earth, but it’s a possibility we should probably consider. The upside of relocating this franchise to terra firma is that it provides a much broader sample buffet of extraterrestrial entrées.

‘Alien: Earth’ Episode 1 Recap – The Future Is Terrifying Again

August 13 2025

It’s amazing that there hasn’t been an Alien TV show until now. It seems so obvious.

We Need To Talk About The Ending Of Prime Video’s ‘Butterfly’

August 13 2025

We need to talk. Butterfly was already a sneaky show, a family drama masquerading as an espionage thriller, but its ending shifts it into different,...

‘Butterfly’ Season 1 Recap – Your Comprehensive Guide To All Six Episodes

August 13 2025

Prime Video’s espionage thriller Butterfly, based on the BOOM! Studios graphic novel series created by Arash Amel and Marguerite Bennett, is a family affair as much...

‘Platonic’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap – The Second-Hand Embarassment Is Real

August 13 2025

I get that Platonic is largely a show about college friends slowly realizing they’re not in college anymore, but by Season 2, you’d think it would have...

‘Jim Jefferies: Two Limb Policy’ Review – Jefferies Remains Impossible to Pin Down

August 12 2025

Jim Jefferies occupies a great place in comedy these days. Having made his name as a — all together now — “controversial” comic back when...

‘Butterfly’ Review – Prime Video’s Spy Series Is Really A Family Drama

August 11 2025

First appearances can be deceiving. What Butterfly looks like, on the surface, is a pretty generic espionage thriller, not meaningfully different in Prime Video’s oeuvre...

‘Beyond the Bar’ Episode 4 Recap – Where Is the Line Between Right and Wrong?

August 10 2025

If there’s anything particular that Beyond the Bar does well, it’s navigating that incredibly wispy line between right and wrong.

‘The Institute’ Episode 6 Recap – The Great Escape Goes Immediately Wrong

August 10 2025

Breaking out of The Institute has been such a fixed goal for so long that I'd forgotten -- and presumably Luke had, too, or had perhaps never realized in the first place -- that it was only the first step to freedom.

‘Beyond the Bar’ Episode 3 Recap – Fascinatingly Intricate Character Drama

August 9 2025

I can’t help but feel that Beyond the Bar is flying under the radar a bit.

‘The Winning Try’ Episode 6 Recap – Now Things Are Getting Serious

August 9 2025

It wouldn't be fair to claim that The Winning Try has been unserious to this point, because it had me pretty much sobbing already, but it definitely hasn't been as serious as it is in Episode 6.