Articles by Jonathon Wilson
‘Robin Hood’ Episode 3 Recap – Is This All Too Serious?
When I said that the premiere of MGM+’s new take on Robin Hood risked missing the point of what made the character fun in the...
‘Tulsa King’ Season 3, Episode 8 Recap – Things Take An Explosive Turn
And just like that, Montague Distilleries is once again open for business, thanks to Dwight’s slick power play to secure the loyalty of Attorney General...
‘Mayor of Kingstown’ Season 4, Episode 3 Recap – Fighting Fire With Fire
Mayor of Kingstown isn’t pulling any punches in Season 4. Several Russians have been beheaded by a train, and Carney’s cold execution in front of his...
‘Typhoon Family’ Episode 9 Recap – We’ve Hit the Wall I Warned About
I can’t say I didn’t warn you, but Episode 9 of Typhoon Family hits the wall I expected it to. It isn’t a bad outing,...
‘Sheriff Country’ Episode 4 Recap – Mickey Goes Rogue to Save Skye
I know I keep going on about it, but you’ll have to forgive me, since it’s really difficult not to compare Sheriff Country to Boston...
‘Boston Blue’ Episode 4 Recap – It’s Still All Too Easy and It’s Getting Dull
It’s a good job Boston Blue is a decent procedural, because if it weren’t for the cases of the week, it’d be the dullest, most...
‘Mango’ Review – Netflix’s Painfully Derivative Fruit-Themed Rom-Com Isn’t Sweet Enough
Call me naive, but I genuinely thought that Mango was going to be a deceptive title laced with some kind of hidden meaning. But no...
Historical and Supernatural Horrors Combine in the Ending of Netflix’s ‘Baramulla’
Aditya Suhas Jambhale’s Baramulla exists at the intersection of genre, where real-life horrors combine with the supernatural kind, and the solution is, ultimately, a gunfight....
‘Baramulla’ Review – Atmospheric Horror Becomes Less Interesting As It Goes
First impressions aren’t everything, but Baramulla makes some pretty good ones. Aditya Suhas Jambhale’s Netflix movie – one of the better Hindi releases in a...
‘Pluribus’ Episode 2 Recap – Where Gilligan’s Latest Expands Into Masterpiece Territory
Even before its release, Pluribus was being hailed as proper event television, the kind of watercooler show we don’t get anymore from the man responsible...
‘Pluribus’ Episode 1 Recap – Vince Gilligan’s Sci-Fi Epic Is As Weird As Promised
Nothing’s a secret these days. No movie releases without two or three increasingly obvious trailers having given most of its plot points away. No TV...
‘The Last Frontier’ Episode 6 Recap – Something Still Feels Off, Right?
The Last Frontier is unashamedly a throwback to uncomplicated, slightly conspiratorial action thrillers of the ’90s, and I love that about it. Or, at least, I’d...
‘Death by Lightning’ Ending: How Resistance to Change Killed James Garfield
On July 2, 1881, U.S. President James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau in the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, DC, having been...
‘Death by Lightning’ Review – An Imperfect Political Drama With Electrifying Performances
Today is either the absolute best or the absolute worst time to release a very mainstream miniseries about political violence, so credit is due to...
‘Murder in a Small Town’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap – This Isn’t Working
Season 2 of Murder in a Small Town isn’t really working for me. I’ve thought that since the beginning.
‘Tyler Perry’s Finding Joy’ Review – Prime Video’s Christmas Rom-Com Commits A Terrible Sin
Five days into November, and I’m not only reviewing my second premature Christmas movie of the year, but weirdly enough, the second one with “Joy”...
‘The Morning Show’ Season 4, Episode 8 Recap – And You Thought You Had Daddy Issues
The Morning Show Season 4 has been a predictably mixed bag, but if it's really good at one thing, it's those very tight and intimate character-driven episodes that allow individual performers to stand out and steal the show.
‘Down Cemetery Road’ Episode 3 Recap – Emma Thompson Carries A Fun Hour
There are obviously a lot of similarities between Down Cemetery Road and Slow Horses, but there are also a fair few key differences.
‘Loot’ Season 3, Episode 5 Recap – Joel Kim Booster’s Final Outing?
It has been difficult to keep track of Loot in Season 3. It definitely dropped the ball in a lazy England-set third episode, but it managed to course correct a little with a half-hour reintroducing John Novak for a ridiculous guest appearance.
‘DMV’ Episode 4 Recap – Colette Needs Another Mode ASAP
In Episode 4 of DMV, things are half-improved. The secret is keeping Colette away from Noa for a while, since that dynamic was already becoming tired.