Articles by Jonathon Wilson
Recap: ‘The Atypical Family’ Episodes 9 & 10 Are the Best Yet
The Atypical Family has been improving every week, and that trend continues with Episodes 9 & 10. The K-Drama is finding a real love story...
Recap: Human Relationships Take Center Stage In ‘The Atypical Family’ Episodes 7 & 8
Time travel is a theoretical superpower that people tend to covet. It’s attractive because it gets at a fundamental desire in human beings to be...
Recap: ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ Season 3 Is Deadlier and More Chaotic Than Ever
Taylor Sheridan continues to be the creative crown jewel in Paramount+’s streaming strategy, and for proof look no further than Mayor of Kingstown. Season 3...
Recap: Billy the Kid Is Back With Multiple Bangs In Season 2 Episode 5
After a very long wait since Episode 4, MGM+’s most underrated original, Billy the Kid, is finally back for Episode 5 of Season 2, “A...
Too Old for Fairy Tales 2 Ends Exactly How You’d Think
You could predict the ending of Too Old for Fairy Tales 2 based entirely on reading the premise. If you’ve ever seen a movie, you...
Review: ‘Too Old for Fairy Tales 2’ Is A Pointless Sequel
It might just be me, but I didn’t think Netflix’s so-so Polish coming-of-age movie Too Old For Fairy Tales really needed a sequel. You can’t...
Review: ‘Eric’ Is A Wildly Ambitious And Powerful Drama
You could tell that Eric was going to be good. Why else would so many serious actors be attracted to a small-scale Netflix project? What...
The Ending of ‘The Sympathizer’ Casts The Entire Show In A New Light
Throughout The Sympathizer, we’ve always known that The Captain would end up back in Vietnam, being interrogated by the people he has spent the entire...
Recap: Dark Matter Episode 4 Squanders Its Potential
Episode 4 of Dark Matter is emblematic of everything I really don’t like about this show. There’s so much potential here, and “The Corridor” shows...
Recap: The Captain Has Had Enough In ‘The Sympathizer’ Episode 6
If Episode 6 of The Sympathizer has a point, it’s that being a spy is a lot of work. The logistics are a nightmare. Once...
Recap: There’s A Wedding In ‘The Atypical Family’ Episode 6
There are several levels on which The Atypical Family doesn’t work. It’s an oddly structured and paced show that sometimes seems to be making things...
Recap: Past And Present Intertwine In ‘The Atypical Family’ Episode 5
Families are trouble at the best of time, but the Boks are a nightmare. The Atypical Family is weirdly titled, really, since superpowers notwithstanding, they’re...
The Ending of ‘The 8 Show’ Is As Miserable As The Rest Of It
The obvious question to ask about the ending of a series like The 8 Show, which is based around a bizarre reality TV competition that...
‘The 8 Show’ Review: When You Have ‘Squid Game’ At Home
Whenever I write about a K-Drama, I typically avoid played-out comparisons to Squid Game, which seems to be the only Korean show Western critics have...
Outer Range Makes No Sense, Which Is Probably Why It Has Been Cancelled
After two seasons, Outer Range has been canceled at Prime Video, nixing any possible plans for Season 3. After the ending of Season 2, there was...
Outer Range Season 2 Barely Ends At All
For such a deliberately complex series, the ending of Outer Range Season 2 is simple enough. In fact, Episode 7 could be described – uncharitably,...
Review: Outer Range Season 2 Is Boring Nonsense
Outer Range has one of the best elevator pitches in the business. What if Yellowstone, but it’s a bit like Lost? Genius! And while Season...
‘Dark Matter’ Episode 3 Slows To A Crawl
Dark Matter was better when it was bonkers. I think that’s fair to say after Episode 3, “The Box”, which settles down to a glacial pace...
Dark Matter’s Premiere Is Too Familiar For Its Own Good
These days, the word “multiverse” is pretty inexorably tied to Marvel, since we’re all simpletons. But Dark Matter on Apple TV+ hopes to fix that...
The General Has A Plan in The Sympathizer Episode 5
The Captain’s adventures in moviemaking in Episode 4 of The Sympathizer were, in a word, unsuccessful. But the deviation into outright parody was a somewhat...