Jack King

London

Freelance Entertainment Critic and Writer at Freelance

making words at the word factory. gq uk. occasionally elsewhere. • he/him

Articles

Charlie Brooker breaks down Black Mirror season 7

1 week ago | gq-magazine.co.uk | Jack King

The following article contains huge spoilers for the entirety of Black Mirror season 7. In Black Mirror season 7, creator Charlie Brooker goes back to basics. It's Black Mirror for the OG fans: terrible tech is back, and a handful of the stories are unrelentingly bleak in classic fashion. At the same time, the series contains some of the most heartfelt episodes of the series' 14 year run, calling back to the heady romance of “San Junipero” and bittersweet poignancy of “Be Right Back”.
Black Mirror's “Eulogy” is the episode OG fans have been waiting for since “San Junipero”

2 weeks ago | gq-magazine.co.uk | Jack King

The following article contains some spoilers for Black Mirror season 7, episode 5, “Eulogy”. Black Mirror has been on TV screens since late 2011, and over the 14 years since, people have never really stopped arguing about what the series should be, nor what a blueprint episode should contain.
The Last of Us season 2 has one of the best TV episodes of the century so far - and the rest is pretty good too

2 weeks ago | gq-magazine.co.uk | Jack King

The following article contains spoilers for The Last of Us season 2. Picking up five years after Joel (Pedro Pascal) “saved” Ellie (Bella Ramsey) from under the knife at that hospital in Salt Lake City, massacring a couple dozen Fireflies in the process, The Last of Us season two maintains the awards-quality, prestige-era form of its predecessor.
The White Lotus season 4 has to be a new beginning

2 weeks ago | gq-magazine.co.uk | Jack King

The White Lotus season 4 was officially commissioned earlier this year, almost a month before this year's trip to Thailand set sail, with HBO programming executive Francesca Orsi suggesting that the next destination will likely be “somewhere in Europe.” A sojourn in France, perhaps? Or a return to Italy? Whatever the case, season four will present a unique creative challenge for writer Mike White.
The White Lotus finale fan theories: three seasons in, the fans have it all figured out

2 weeks ago | gq-magazine.co.uk | Jack King

The following article contains major spoilers for The White Lotus season three. In the dying embers of the Twitter age, where the final bastion of posters squabble and shitpost in the Muskian ruins of the TV town square, The White Lotus is one of the last shows to have sustained itself as a regular conversation driver.
Every Metallica album, ranked

2 weeks ago | gq-magazine.co.uk | Jack King

Are you a Millennial? Want to feel incredibly old? Read ahead: Metallica's ubiquitous MTV-era hard rock anthem “Enter Sandman” recently hit 750 weeks in the top 40 of the UK's Official Rock & Metal Singles chart. That's right, folks: seven hundred and freakin' fifty consecutive weeks ranked among the most popular rock songs in the country.
Val Kilmer's flamboyant Batman was deeply underappreciated

3 weeks ago | gq-magazine.co.uk | Jack King

Val Kilmer, the ‘80s and ’90s Hollywood mainstay best known for his parts in Top Gun and Heat, along with cult classics of the era such as The Doors, Willow and Tombstone, died from pneumonia on 1 April at the age of 65. His passing follows a period of illness that began in 2015, after he was diagnosed with throat cancer, a challenging period covered in the acclaimed 2021 documentary Val.
The Netflix Narnia cast power list

3 weeks ago | gq-magazine.co.uk | Jack King

Teased as a “very new take” on the classic C. S. Lewis children's books, expect Barbie director Greta Gerwig to put a subversive spin on her Netflix version of Narnia, just as she blew away just about every expectation we ever had for her plastic-fantastic blockbuster. She's set to shoot two films in the series this summer, with the first dated for release in IMAX next November.
Next James Bond: Who will be the new 007? | British GQ

3 weeks ago | gq-magazine.co.uk | Jack King |Killian Faith-Kelly

Every single contender in the race to be the next James Bond, including Tom Holland, James Norton, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Harris Dickinson, Josh O'Connor, Alan Ritchson and more.
Who is gonna die in The White Lotus season 3 finale? A ranking

3 weeks ago | gq-magazine.co.uk | Jack King

Few can out-think Mike White, but that hasn't stopped us — or, indeed, the entire internet — from trying to predict who is going to die in The White Lotus season three since pretty much the beginning. It's a fool's errand, really — White is about as impossible to predict as murder-mystery writers come — but there have been plenty of hints fuelling rampant fan speculation across social media.