Jonathon Wilson

In its latest pair of episodes, Strong Girl Nam-soon is well-served by a bit more seriousness and drama. In many ways, the overarching Season 1...

The lighthouse is a pretty universally understood symbol for being kept on the right track, so it’s a bit ironic that Beacon 23, which is...

The ending of Culprits Season 1 is, in a word, weird. Odd. Unusual. Perhaps unconventional is the most fitting description, since little about it proceeds...

The penultimate episode of Culprits asks more questions than it answers. It’s a much slower – and, for that matter, lesser – outing than Episode...

“Vessels” technically starts with a cold open in which we see what really happened between Officer and Devil in Paris, but don’t worry about that...

“Let Us Sit Bent, and Talk Straight” is a nasty, mean-spirited episode of Culprits that really raises the stakes heading into the back half of...

Pardon me for thinking we were over the COVID-19 pandemic, or at the very least over pandemic media, because goodness me, some terrible garbage emerged...

Let me be the first to tell you that the ending of Akuma Kun Season 1 is deliberately ambiguous and mostly exists to set up...

Netflix are having a phenomenal run with their animated content at the moment, with Pluto arriving out of nowhere as a best-of-the-year contender only to...

Maybe it’s just me, but I wasn’t as enamored with Episode 4 of Culprits as I have been with Season 1’s first three installments. It’s hard...

It’s probably safe to say at this point that the heist didn’t go especially well. Just like in Episode 2, the third episode of Culprits Season 1,...

“Angler Fish” is about fear, in many ways, not all of them obvious. Sure, the sentiment comes through most bluntly when the title itself is...

There was before, and then there’s after. This is the narrative framing conceit employed by Culprits Season 1, with Episode 1, “Change of Use”, being divided...

Culprits is a suspiciously undermarketed heist thriller streaming on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ everywhere else, and like the best cons, it seems to...

It’s the Regulators versus the uncreatively named Jesse Evans Gang in Billy the Kid Season 2, with the opening salvo of the Lincoln County War...

The Winter King Season 1 comes to something of an underwhelming end in Episode 10, which finds Arthur trying to battle predicaments on two fronts....

In Episodes 9 & 10, Strong Girl Nam-soon continues to develop its characters into richer components of a wide-ranging narrative. At this point it’s a...

Allow me to spare you the suspense – The Tailor Season 3 doesn’t really have an ending. Sure, it brings the central dynamic to something...

The Tailor is a show in a hurry. In the last six months, three seasons of it have debuted on Netflix, becoming unexpected hits in...

Onimusha is the latest surprisingly good animated video game adaptation to appear on Netflix, and it’s a nostalgically gruesome adventure through Warring States Japan. The...