Jonathon Wilson

It’s only right that the ending of Pokémon Concierge is as quaint and low-stakes as the rest of Season 1 has been. The slice-of-life stop-motion...

Pokémon is probably the biggest IP in the world, all told, and for basically its entire existence it has revolved around more or less the...

Like Flowers in Sand continues in Episode 3 with another rather sedate episode. While there’s enough here to be going on with, there’s also probably...

The cool thing about the Marvel Universe is that there’s always more potential for telling stories in it that don’t feel like the typical Marvel...

A mere 24 hours after Episode 4 of What If…? Season 2, which was in some ways a sequel to the first season, the Watcher...

One supposes it’s typical of Marvel to release an anthology series that can’t tell a complete story in a single episode. Episode 4 of What...

Look, I’m not here to reignite the endless debate about whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie, since it is and anyone who...

In my recap of Episode 1, I made a point of saying that I didn’t trust What If…?. I was talking about how it pretends...

For Season 2 of the speculative animated anthology series What If…?, Marvel elected for an unusual, Christmassy distribution strategy. Every day, viewers can stream a...

Netflix’s new habit of releasing everything in multiple parts means that something like Episode 7 of Gyeongseong Creature Part 1 isn’t really an ending, or...

The penultimate episode of Gyeongseong Creature Part 1 is the best of Season 1 thus far. The stakes are up. The performances are elevated to...

It takes an effort to remember sometimes, but Gyeongseong Creature is occurring against the backdrop of Korea’s fight for independence from Japan. It’s not uncommon...

Genres are comforting. You know to expect a jump-scare or two with horror, a meet-cute and a big-deal first kiss with a romance, and so...

As I predicted, “Signal” is really about Gyeongseong Creature cutting loose a little bit after a lot of slower-paced build-up and introductions in Episode 1...

Taken together, Episode 1 and Episode 2 of Gyeongseong Creature Season 1 feel a bit like a prologue to Part 1 proper. The premiere was...

World War II imagery is never pleasant, but Gyeongseong Creature manages to one-up it in the Part 1 premiere, “Najin”. The cold open is arguably...

These days, you can take the way Netflix releases its big originals as a measure of its confidence in the property. Most stuff gets released...

Episode 2 adds more depth to Like Flowers in Sand, while also doubling down on the suspicions surrounding both a match-fixing criminal organization and the...

Like Flowers in Sand isn’t in a rush to get anywhere in Episode 1, and you have to respect that. Season 1 of the new...

Fargo is an unashamedly stylish and often unconventional show. It isn’t afraid to do ballsy things or have characters speak very much like characters in...