Jonathon Wilson

Twilight of the Gods benefits from Norse mythology’s rich storytelling canvas and colorful characters, from creator Zack Snyder’s eye for striking visuals, and from Netflix’s bottomless...

Episode 4 of Tell Me Lies Season 2 brings us a little closer to Stephen’s dirty secrets being exposed, but it’s Lucy who exudes the most toxicity...

I’ll be the first to admit that Episode 7 of Bad Monkey is a little tame. At this point, it isn’t the worst thing to happen; these...

There’s a grace and efficiency with which Slow Horses moves through its plot that is genuinely admirable. There are a lot of moving parts here in Season...

Deon Cole is a seasoned comedian, which based on his third Netflix special, Ok, Mister, is not an adjective he’d like. He prefers “vintage”, which is,...

English Teacher Episode 4, “School Safety”, deals with two important issues — the responsible use of firearms in the well-armed State of Texas, and the fact...

In some hypothetical future where Marisa Abela wins an Emmy for her work on Industry, it’ll be for the show overall – but I think...

Don’t worry, folks – it was a false alarm. Love Next Door really did look like it was going down a deeply traumatic path, but...

The ending of Romance in the House was always going to be predictable. Episode 12, the finale, is precisely that, but you know what? I...

It’s mostly business as usual in the Season 2 premiere of Tulsa King, but there are a couple of hints of a step up in...

When Romance in the House first started airing, I thought its 12-episode season order was on the shorter side for a K-Drama, and wondered whether...

Here’s a question that seems more relevant as of Episode 9 of Love Next Door than it has before – where, exactly, is this show...

Since Netflix’s Uglies is based on Scott Westerfeld’s 2005 series-launching book of the same name, it should come as no surprise that the movie’s ending...

In Uglies, McG’s Netflix adaptation of Scott Westerfeld’s 2005 book of the same name, Joey King wants to be pretty. At one point, the Hollywood...

It’s hard to tell if the cliffhanger ending of Sector 36 is hinting at a sequel or providing a resonant note of deliberate ambiguity. This...

Sector 36 is an odd film based on a heinous string of real crimes in Nithari, a residential enclave in New Delhi, in 2005-2006. “Odd”...

The ending of Officer Black Belt sums up the theme that has been running throughout the entire movie – the burgeoning sense of duty and...

There’s a problem with Officer Black Belt, a well-intentioned Netflix movie about an athletic idealist punching and kicking recidivism out of South Korean criminals –...

The brilliant first season of The Old Man was a slowly unfurling collection of secrets and mysteries, with occasional bursts of brutal violence. Not having...

Billionaire Island is, on the surface, a story about salmon, but its ending reveals it to be something else – a story about betrayal and...