Articles by Jonathon Wilson
‘Rooster’ Episode 4 Recap – I Do Believe We’re Getting Somewhere
I keep expecting to like Rooster more than I do. Luckily, Episode 4 reassured me that it does seem to be going somewhere, even if I don’t...
‘DTF St. Louis’ Episode 5 Recap – Things Are Getting Pretty Full On
One of the broader arcs in Episode 5 of DTF St. Louis is Detective Homer realising that the murder of Floyd Smernitch isn’t as open-and-shut as he...
‘American Classic’ Episode 6 Recap – And Suddenly I’m Invested
I wouldn’t say that Episode 6 of American Classic is leaps and bounds better than all the previous ones. It has the same blend of arch comedy...
‘Girl from Nowhere: The Reset’ Episode 4 Recap – Another Influencer Already?
As much as I can get behind the idea of new Nanno’s entire character arc seemingly being that she’s just mad at influencers, it does...
How the Ending of ‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Sets Up A Sequel
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is a consistently surprising movie that arguably over-delivers on all of its promises. One of the most exciting...
‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Is the Best Streaming Movie of the Year (For Now)
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is the rare movie that is better in practice than it is on paper. Between the fussy title...
‘Primate’ Is Startlingly Nasty and Impressively Stupid Chimp-Horror Fun
You’re not supposed to root for the killer in slasher movies, or perhaps more accurately, you’re not supposed to admit that’s what you’re doing. But...
‘Hoppers’ Is An Exercise In Empathy That We Could All Learn Something From
Maybe it’s just me, but a Pixar movie release doesn’t seem as big of a deal as it once did. Hoppers is simultaneously validating (nobody...
‘Scream 7’ Isn’t As Bad You’ve Been Told… But It Isn’t Very Good Either
It is basically inarguable at this point that the circumstances surrounding the production of Scream 7 have coloured its critical reception to a not-insignificant degree....
‘Bodycam’ Has A Novel Premise But Goes Wildly Off the Rails
Immediacy is in vogue at the moment, and there’s nothing more immediate than a first-person perspective, something that video games have understood forever but that...
‘Shelter’ Is Mediocre Enough to Make Even Jason Statham Boring
I’ve argued in favour of typecasting before, and Jason Statham is one of my go-to examples of actors who do one thing well enough that...
‘Greenland 2: Migration’ Is the Worse Movie Everyone Expected Its Predecessor to Be
The thing that worked about Greenland was that it was an anti-disaster movie. It promised a world-ending calamity and eventually delivered it, but the impact...
‘The Last Thing He Told Me’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap – A Change Of Scenery Doesn’t Help
With The Last Thing He Told Me Season 2 transferring a chunk of its action to Marseille in Episode 6, that gives it the rare distinction of...
‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap – Back to the Beginning
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters trades in the giant monster action — mostly — for more focused character work in “Furusato”, and it’s a gamble that doesn’t...
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 12 Recap – There’s Something In the Air
When even Dana is crying, you know something is going badly wrong in The Pitt. But that feeling of mounting dread which has characterised Season 2...
Let’s Unpack the Demented ‘Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen’ Ending
You can say a lot of things about the Duffer Brothers’ latest Netflix project, Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, but you can’t say...
‘Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen’ Is A Bit Too Weird For Its Own Good
With all the cache that the Duffer brothers have built up after the success of Stranger Things – a somewhat controversial ending notwithstanding – you...
‘Pretty Lethal’ Has One of the Best Action Scenes of the Year… But Very Little Else
To be clear, there’s a third-act action sequence in Pretty Lethal that is one of the year’s best, and will likely remain so. It’s a...
‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2, Episode 1 Recap – New York Is Back
“New York is back,” says a happy bystander in the Season 2 premiere of Daredevil: Born Again, in one of those boots-on-the-ground handheld interstitials from BB Urich that the first season used to take the political temperature.
‘Imperfect Women’ Episode 3 Recap – With Friends Like These
"I'm a lot of things. I'm not a monster," says Robert in Episode 3 of Imperfect Women, and it's perhaps the least convincing thing anyone has ever said.