Articles by Jonathon Wilson
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2 Ending Explained – A Major Aang Cliffhanger Sets Up Season 3
In the grand scheme of things, Season 2 only represents the midpoint of Avatar: The Last Airbender. It adapts Book Two: Earth of the animated...
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2 Episode 6 Recap – They’re Children, After All
It’s easy to forget that Aang’s a kid, sometimes. Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of those hero’s journey fantasy stories that thrust youngsters into the deep...
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap – Spirit Quest, Part 2
While we’re technically still stuck in Ba Sing Se, which was already beginning to feel a bit limiting, Episode 5 of Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2...
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – If Walls Could Talk
Ba Sing Se is good and bad for Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2. Having all of the cast in the same place, in a location that...
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap – Ignorance Is Bliss
Since Avatar: The Last Airbender is adapting such a long-running anime, condensing so many arcs into single digestible episodes, it has a tendency to feel anthological in...
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap – A Welcome New Recruit
Some people don’t have a great deal of luck, and I’m starting to think that Prince Zuko is one of them. Sure, you can make...
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2, Episode 1 Recap – It’s Called Serpent’s Pass For A Reason
Since the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender is fairly complex and dense at the best of times, it’s probably only right that Season 2 starts with...
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2 Review – A More Assured Follow-Up
It’s impossible to talk about Avatar: The Last Airbender without also talking about One Piece. Both are live-action adaptations of extremely beloved and long-running anime series streaming on...
From A Different Point of View: ‘The American Experiment’ Has A Who’s Who of Talking Heads
On the cusp of the 250th anniversary of the United States of America, Brian Knappenberger’s five-part Tom Hanks-produced historical documentary series The American Experiment lays...
‘The American Experiment’ Is Far from Complete, And That’s the Point
Netflix isn’t immune to outright propagandistic puff pieces – think back a little way to Marines, an explicit recruitment tool disguised as an even-handed docuseries....
‘Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap – The Disappearing Dead Body
I don’t kill people very often — not anymore, anyway — but I think I’d do a better job of it than Paula. Then again,...
Netflix Blur the Line Between Movie and Video Game In Unique Interactive Horror ‘Unhinged’
While it’s fair to say that nobody pays a great deal of attention to Netflix’s gaming output, which consists mostly of ports or mutually beneficial...
Patriots Hate Immigrants So Much They’re Defending an Uwe Boll Movie
You need only take a brief look at the comments beneath my review of Citizen Vigilante, an execrable piece of fascistic propaganda from notoriously provocative...
‘Not Suitable for Work’ Season 1 Ending Explained – And A Happy(ish) New Year
After that penultimate episode, it was kind of obvious where Not Suitable for Work was going in a lot of respects. But in the grand scheme of...
‘Not Suitable for Work’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap – A Not-So-Merry Christmas
It could just be me, but is there something a little unsettling about a Christmas episode airing in the middle of summer? Maybe it’s particularly...
Wait, Who Was the Guy With Antlers In the ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3 Premiere?
House of the Dragon Season 3 got off to a pretty chaotic start, and with all the action going on in the Gullet and King’s...
‘House of the Dragon’ Made Multiple Changes to the Battle of the Gullet, Most For the Better
House of the Dragon opening Season 3 with the Battle of the Gullet seems like something of a mission statement. Considered to be one of...
‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3, Episode 1 Recap – Now That’s How You Do A Premiere
As well as starting with a slightly new opening tapestry and a rework of the classic Game of Thrones theme, Season 3 of House of the...
Elgin, You Idiot! Let’s Predict the ‘From’ Season 4 Finale
We’re hurtling towards the finale of From Season 4, and based on the latest episode, things are going to go badly wrong. Several characters are in serious...
‘Citizen Vigilante’ Isn’t Just A Terrible Movie — It’s An Actively Dangerous Call to Arms
Uwe Boll is a filmmaker best-known for producing at least three movies – though arguably many more – that are among the very worst ever...