Jonathon Wilson

The cleverness of Goodbye Earth is exposed by its ending, which refuses to cop out in the way a great many stories would. The premise...

Imagine an asteroid is hurtling towards Earth. You have 200 days to live, at best. What do you do? This is the question Netflix’s Korean...

Them is ostensibly an anthology series, and yet the ending of The Scare connects Season 2 back to the first. Episode 8 is particularly guilty...

Prime Video’s Them was never intended to please everyone, and Season 2 of the anthology series, subtitled Them: The Scare, isn’t either. This is perhaps...

Deliver Me is not a happy series, and, predictably, it doesn’t have a happy ending. It doesn’t have a happy beginning or middle, either, for...

Children, like animals, are an easy way to manipulate an audience. We’ve all seen hundreds of shows about crime and drugs, and rarely do we...

“Flash Strike” is the penultimate episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, and it’s starting to feel like it now. There have been plenty of...

“Into the Breach” provides one more obstacle in the way of Clone Force 99 finally getting to Mount Tantiss. That has been their objective throughout...

When it debuted in 2020, Industry was something of a surprise. It came out of the gates as another darkly funny workplace drama about a...

The ending of Brigands: The Quest for Gold Season 1 isn’t especially happy, but this being a show about morally fluid bandits streaming on Netflix,...

Brigands: The Quest For Gold opens with a quote about the ambiguous definitions of the word “rich”, which is probably fair enough. In a monetary...

“War is inevitable,” says Ishido to the Council of Regents in Shogun Episode 10. And he’s echoing a sentiment that has been obvious since the very beginning...

The Captain clearly doesn’t want to be a spy anymore, which is easy enough to accept since the premiere of The Sympathizer never made clear...

So, here’s the thing – I don’t think Queen of Tears is going to have a sad ending. I can’t say how yet, but I’m...

While the enigmatic Daemon believes that dragons made the Targaryens kings, there was so much more to the reigning dynasty that put them a cut...

You always get a sense when a show is narratively nearing its end, and that comes through very strongly in Queen of Tears Episode 13....

The ending of Manhunt begins, fittingly, in the past. More specifically, three months before Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in Ford’s Theatre, on a night in the White House...

Let’s not beat around the bush – John Wilkes Booth dies in Manhunt Episode 6. We all knew it was coming, of course, so it’s...

It took a while and a whole episode of dilly-dallying with the remnants of the Confederacy, but in Episode 5 of Manhunt, Edwin Stanton is...

The Grimm Variations is the latest take on the classic fairytales of the titular Brothers Grimm, but the Netflix anthology is far from a simple...