Articles by Jonathon Wilson
Sweet Home Season 2 Review – A more ambitious and flawed follow-up
It has been three years since we last saw Sweet Home, the Netflix adaptation of the popular Naver webtoon of the same name. And a...
Sweet Home Season 2 Episode 1 Recap – Who are the real monsters?
“Humankind is a virus, and the monsters are the vaccine.” This is a theory posited in the cold open of Sweet Home Season 2, Episode 1, the...
Black Cake Season 1 Episode 7 Recap – A strong, moving penultimate episode
Forgive me a small observation, but something occurred to me in the first few seconds of Black Cake Episode 7, and it’s niggling. I haven’t...
Fargo Season 5 Episode 3 Recap – Dot steps up her home security for Halloween
The first two episodes of Fargo Season 5 were, naturally, about setup. They introduced the characters and their connections to each other, claimed to be based on...
Beacon 23 Season 1 Episode 4 Recap – What is Milan looking for?
Episode 4 of Beacon 23 Season 1 leaves Aster and Halan to fend for themselves for a week, instead wheeling back 180 years for a...
Strong Girl Nam-soon Season 1 Ending Explained – Do Nam-soon and Hee-sik end up together?
The ending of Strong Girl Nam-soon Season 1 constitutes a “happy” ending, sort of, as well as a tease for the already-confirmed third spin-off. But...
My Demon Season 1 Episode 2 Recap – Who is trying to kill Do-hee and why?
In many ways, My Demon is turning out to be the quintessential romantic K-Drama – the leads are enemies but they’re so good-looking they can’t...
Strong Girl Nam-soon Season 2: Is the Netflix K-Drama strong enough to secure a renewal?
Strong Girl Nam-soon is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a spin-off of Strong Girl Bong-soon. Kang Nam-soon, the protagonist, is a blood relative of Do Bong-soon and has the same...
My Demon Season 1 Episode 1 Recap – How does Gu-won lose his powers
“Demonic romance” are two words that you’re unlikely to find together very often, but the romantic K-drama My Demon Season 1 — not to be...
A Nearly Normal Family Season 1 Ending Explained – Who killed Chris?
A Nearly Normal Family is a murder mystery, so the ending of Season 1 – which will almost certainly be its only season – is...
A Nearly Normal Family Season 1 Review – A gripping thriller
It isn’t like Netflix is short on gripping international thrillers, but it’s always nice to have another. Enter, then, A Nearly Normal Family, an attention-grabbing...
Here’s everything that happened in My Daemon Season 1
My Daemon Season 1 is 13 episodes of absolute madness, with a breakneck pace and one far-out idea after another courtesy of Thai-based Igloo Studio. A...
My Daemon Season 1 Ending Explained – How is Pandaemonium defeated?
The ending of My Daemon Season 1 has a surprisingly optimistic streak given all the giant monsters and nuclear weapons involved. I mean, really, when...
My Daemon Season 1 Review – Impressively weird Netflix animation is Pokemon for maniacs
Not to be reductive, but the best way to describe My Daemon, a really rather good Thai animated series streaming on Netflix, is as Pokémon...
Black Cake Season 1 Episode 6 Recap – Why does Byron go viral?
I hated Episode 5 of Black Cake, so I’m pleased to report that Episode 6, “Ma”, is much improved. Yes, it’s still a little preachy, but...
Fargo Season 5 Review – A welcome return to form
The simplest thing one can say about Fargo Season 5, which debuts on FX three years after the maligned fourth season inexplicably explored inter-mob race...
Strong Girl Nam-soon Season 1 Episodes 13 & 14 Recap – Shi-oh goes on a killing spree
The latest two episodes of Strong Girl Nam-soon Season 1 are all about setting the stage for the big finale, which was probably pretty obvious...
Beacon 23 Season 1 Episode 3 Recap – Aster crosses another line
Beacon 23 is, to use the technical term, a weird show. Like the book on which it’s based, this MGM+ adaptation is kind of all over...
The Railway Men Season 1 Ending Explained – Does Iftekaar survive?
The Bhopal Gas Tragedy is known as the worst industrial disaster in history. A leak at the Union Carbide India Limited factory in Bhopal, Madhya...
The Railway Men Season 1 Review – A stirring tale of real-life heroism and governmental failure
It’s a bit reductive to say, but The Railway Men is very much India’s answer to HBO’s Chernobyl. Basis in avoidable real-life disaster? Check. Focus...