Drama

Recap: ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’ Season 2 Improves Slightly In Episode 2

October 6 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is improving, so that’s something. Season 2 is still wildly imperfect, but I didn’t spend Episode 2, “Moulin Rouge”, getting...

‘CTRL’ Isn’t Very Good, But Its Cynical Ending Is The Right One

October 5 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

I respect the ending of CTRL, even though I don’t like the movie very much. It seems right to me that a techno thriller about...

Review: ‘CTRL’ Is A Topical Thriller That Never Quite Gets Going

October 5 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Ever since Unfriended popularized the once-novel concept of a film unfolding entirely on someone else’s screens, there hasn’t exactly been a shortage of imitators. CTRL...

Recap: ‘Grotesquerie’ Keeps Getting Weirder In Episodes 3 & 4

October 5 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Travis Kelce is a handsome fellow, isn’t he? I bring this up since his much-advertised presence in Grotesquerie is the rare light spot in what...

Recap: ‘The Old Man’ Season 2, Episode 5 Feels Reminiscent Of Season 1

October 5 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Is Angela/Emily/Parwana dead? That’s certainly the question we’re left with by the end of The Old Man Season 2, Episode 5, though anyone who has...

Recap: Aubrey Plaza Steals The Show In ‘Agatha All Along’ Episode 4

October 4 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

I keep hearing that Agatha All Along is the gayest thing Marvel has done. I’m not sure what this means, or how this can be...

Recap: ‘Slow Horses’ Season 4, Episode 5 Is Firing On All Cylinders

October 2 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Slow Horses operates at such a consistently high level that it didn’t occur to me until midway through Episode 5 of Season 4, “Grave Danger”,...

Recap: ‘Murder in a Small Town’ Season 1, Episode 2 Is A Step Down

October 2 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Murders in picturesque local towns are like buses. You wait ages for one, and then several come along at once. That’s how it must feel...

Recap: ‘Tell Me Lies’ Season 2, Episode 6 Is Like Being Slowly Tortured

October 2 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

On the one hand, Tell Me Lies Season 2, Episode 6, once again appropriately titled “Do Your Dirty Words Come Out to Play?”, is a bristlingly effective...

Recap: ‘Where’s Wanda?’ Episode 2 Adds A Few New Suspects

October 2 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Every episode of Where’s Wanda? is named after a family. The premiere focused on the Klatts, which is understandable since they’re at the very center of the...

Recap: ‘Where’s Wanda?’ Episode 1 Kicks Off A Funny, Intriguing Small-Town Mystery

October 2 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

There’s a delicate balance to Where’s Wanda?, Apple TV+’s small-town German mystery series about a missing 17-year-old girl. Episode 1, “The Klatts”, is hilarious but deeply...

Recap: Mind and Body Are Separated In ‘Brilliant Minds’ Season 1, Episode 2

October 1 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

I wasn’t sure about Brilliant Minds after a mixed-bag premiere, but I’m pleased to report that Season 1, Episode 2, “The Disembodied Woman”, is a really good...

Recap: Sophie Turner Impresses in the Premiere of ‘Joan’

September 30 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Sophie Turner’s post-Game of Thrones career hasn’t exactly been prolific, which is surprising. Anyone who survives eight seasons of that show – especially the last...

Recap: Underdogs Unite In ‘The Penguin’ Episode 2

September 30 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Episode 2 of The Penguin, “Inside Man”, is as good as the premiere was, which got me thinking. Why? That isn’t a trick question. There...

‘Industry’ Season 3 Ends At Its Best – By Showing The Worst Of Everyone

September 30 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Industry Season 3 was never heading to a happy ending, but even I didn’t expect one quite so cynical as this. Episode 8, “Infinite Largesse”,...

Recap: ‘Love Next Door’ Episode 14 Tees Up One Final Obstacle

September 29 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

There’s nothing like a brush with death to put things in perspective, and that’s where Seung-hyo is at in Love Next Door Episode 14. Predictably,...

Recap: ‘Love Next Door’ Spins Its Wheels In Episode 13

September 29 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Love Next Door is falling off a bit, right? It might just be me. But Episode 13 felt like a show that should have already...

Recap: ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’ Season 2, Episode 1 Raises Some Worrying Questions

September 29 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Season 2 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is subtitled The Book of Carol. I don’t like that for several reasons – “Book Of” sounds...

Recap: ‘Tulsa King’ Season 2 Livens Up In Episode 3

September 29 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Tulsa King hasn’t been in a rush to get going in Season 2, but that changes slightly in Episode 3, “Oklahoma v. Manfredi”. Quite a bit...

Recap: ‘Grotesquerie’ Episode 2 Might Have Introduced the Killer

September 27 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

The pilot episode of Grotesquerie was fittingly grotesque, and Episode 2, “True Crime Catholics”, doesn’t exactly become a comedy. In fact, it might be even...