Articles by Jonathon Wilson
Elite Season 7 Episode 1 Recap
You’ll notice immediately that “Las Encinas”, Episode 1 of Elite Season 7, doesn’t play out like one of the show’s premieres usually does. There’s no...
Elite Season 7 Review – Netflix series has finally lost the plot
No series typifies Netflix better than Elite, a lusty Spanish high-school melodrama that has just debuted its seventh season despite not having been any good...
Kaala Paani Season 1 Episode 7 Recap and Ending Explained
Kaala Paani, a seven-part Netflix original series created by Sameer Saxena and Amit Golani, exists in the long shadow cast by the COVID-19 pandemic. India’s...
Kaala Paani Season 1 Review
There has been a fair amount of fuss about Kaala Paani on Netflix, the first – if the press materials are to be believed –...
The Winter King Season 1 Episode 7 Recap
You can use many adjectives to describe The Winter King until this point, but Episode 7 is the first one I’d apply the “romantic” label...
Billy the Kid Season 2 Episode 1 Recap
If the first season of Billy the Kid on MGM+ was an origin story of sorts, showing how personal trauma and unfortunate circumstances led Henry...
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 1 Episode 6 Recap and Ending Explained
And just like that, another spin-off of The Walking Dead ends in a deliberately ambiguous way, teasing yet more spin-offs in this fractal, undying AMC...
Strong Girl Nam-soon Season 1 Episode 4 Recap
Episode 4 of Strong Girl Nam-soon Season 1 begins right where we left off in Episode 3, so our recap might as well start there too....
Strong Girl Nam-soon Season 1 Episode 3 Recap
The second episode of Strong Girl Nam-soon ended on quite the cliffhanger, with Nam-soon being unknowingly reunited with her biological father, Bong-go, who recognized her...
Strong Girl Nam-soon Season 1 Episode 2 Recap
Episode 1 of Strong Girl Nam-soon was really rather good, all things considered, but the K-Drama really finds its groove in Episode 2, which doubles...
‘Arthdal Chronicles’ Not Renewed For Season 3 Yet, But There’s Potential For Disney
It certainly took its time getting here, but just like that, Arthdal Chronicles season 2 will come to an end on October 15, 2023, with the eagerly...
Strong Girl Nam-soon Season 1 Episode 1 Recap
Strong Girl Nam-soon is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a spin-off of Strong Girl Bong-soon, boasting the same underlying premise and hodgepodge of issues. But I have good...
Ballerina (2023) Ending Explained – How does Ok-ju get her revenge?
It’s almost a little redundant to explain the ending of Ballerina (2023), a South Korean action-thriller streaming on Netflix with a plot so thin that...
Ballerina (2023) Review – Brawny And Brainless
“Style over substance” is a cliché if ever there was one, and contrary to popular belief, critics – the decent ones, anyway – like to...
Everything Now Season 1 Episode 8 Recap and Ending Explained
Everything Now is a sensitive, nuanced Netflix teen drama about a young girl named Mia Polanco who returns to school after a 7-month stint in...
Everything Now Season 1 Review – Netflix delivers a sensitive depiction of eating disorders
There are lots of things that Netflix never gets credit for, but perhaps the most significant is its increasing library of forward-thinking teen dramas. Sure,...
What happened to Ueli Steck? The Tragedy of the Swiss Machine
You don’t get a nickname like “The Swiss Machine” for nothing, and record-breaking solo alpinist Ueli Steck earned the moniker and then some. One of...
The Irrational Season 1 Episode 2 Recap
After a very confident pilot episode, The Irrational returns to NBC for “Dead Woman Walking”, which boasts a slightly more complex case of the week,...
The Irrational Season 1 Episode 1 Recap
Rarely will you ever come across a premise and a protagonist as finely suited to a procedural as in NBC’s The Irrational, a clever-clogs mystery...
57 Seconds Ending Explained
57 Seconds is a sci-fi B-movie starring Josh Hutcherson and Morgan Freeman that is about a very low-key version of time travel. Given how famously...