Jonathon Wilson

There was a time not long ago when the idea of a decent film or TV show adapted from a video game was laughable. In...

Black Cake has a lot going for it. It’s adapted from the same-titled New York Times bestseller by Charmaine Wilkerson. It’s fronted by Mia Isaac,...

In easily the best and most bombastic episode of Billy the Kid Season 2 thus far, the Lincoln County War officially starts, the Regulators are...

War is on the horizon in The Winter King Episode 9, and Arthur’s ability to meet it head-on is increasingly coming into question. Season 1...

With Episode 8, we’ve officially reached the midpoint of Strong Girl Nam-soon Season 1, and it has honestly been a fun journey to this point....

One should always be suspicious of so-called “sports drinks”, and that’s probably more true of Strong Girl Nam-Soon Episode 7. But drugged isotonic beverages aside,...

Netflix’s Tore Season 1 is a striking Swedish dramedy that plays the usual expected beats of the genre but also provides an unusually wrenching examination...

Tore isn’t your average comedy-drama, and it’s important not to let Netflix’s predictable marketing sell it as simply a Scandi equivalent of their own Sex...

The war between the House and John Tunstall continues to be fought on multiple fronts in Billy the Kid Season 2. Episode 2, “Sickness”, finds...

The matter of legacy is a slightly complicated one in Strong Girl Nam-soon Season 1. All the women in Nam-soon’s family have the same inherited...

Episode 8 of The Winter King Season 1 is another rather nasty and mean-spirited outing. It isn’t as shocking as the baby-stabbing third episode, but...

While one might lament how quickly Strong Girl Nam-soon has rocketed through the family reunion aspect of its premise, it remains easy to buy into...

You can describe Netflix’s long-running original hit Elite as many things. The salacious Spanish teen drama has been, variably, a class commentary, an erotic thriller,...

Well, folks, we’ve finally made it, and Elite Season 7 has been a particularly aggravating journey. Knowing that the ending of Season 7 is really...

“Just Hug Me”, the penultimate episode of Elite Season 7, really just proves what I’ve been saying all along – this show is rubbish. And...

Before we get into “Rock Bottom”, Episode 6 of Elite Season 7, permit me a small point. It occurs to me that it’s difficult to...

Episode 4 was, on balance, probably the best episode of Elite Season 7. Episode 5, on the other hand, is not. At all. There’s a...

There’s always a party episode in Elite and other teen dramas, and it’s always followed by the hangover episode, or the “morning after the night...

Are things picking up a little in Elite Season 7? That might be a touch ambitious, but at the very least Episode 3, “Bling-Bling”, has...

Elite Season 7 continues its run of bad form in Episode 2, “Protocol”, which still lacks anything worthy of an audience’s attention. There’s no murder,...