Jonathon Wilson

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,...

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...

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, 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...

There has been a fair amount of fuss about Kaala Paani on Netflix, the first – if the press materials are to be believed –...

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...

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...

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...