Jon O'Brien

Entertainment Writer

United Kingdom

Published on Billboard, i-D, Esquire, Grammy Awards, New Scientist, Inside Hook, Chartmetric, Classic Pop, Syfy, Decider, Paste, Digital Spy, Metro UK, Reader's Digest and The Guardian.

Portfolio

TV

New Scientist
Extrapolations review: Can this climate sci-fi make us care?

Earth's climate is reeling out of control in this eight-part sci-fi series stuffed with A-listers. From one of the minds behind An Inconvenient Truth, it is heavy on messaging, but lacks some focus SIENNA MILLER as a conflicted animal conservationist. Kit Harington as a smarmy tech overlord.

The Week
How Better Call Saul perfected the art of the montage

Better Call Saul didn't waste any time confirming it would extend the Breaking Bad universe's legacy of spectacularly-crafted montages. Part-baking tutorial, part-existential crisis, a monochromatic flash-forward depicting the criminal lawyer's new life as a brow-beaten Cinnabon boss in all its tedium kicks off the very first episode. And Vince Gilligan & Co.

Vulture
02/18/2021
A Guide to Russell T. Davies's Queer Canon

"Any sense of queerness, any sense of otherness is still very new as a society," Russell T. Davies once told BBC Radio 4. "There are things that we said, things that we felt, emotions in our hearts that have not been put onscreen yet, or on the page, or into fiction."

Film

Little White Lies
How cinema has addressed Section 28: the 'Don't Say Gay' law

How cinema has addressed Section 28: the 'Don't Say Gay' law Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we've been described as being "at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement."

Music

Grammy
Classic Metal's Big Year: 8 Ways 2022 Was A Banner Year For The Pioneers Of Hard Rock

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Billboard
09/10/2021
20 Years Ago, the Hot 100 Reflected a Nation Grappling With 9/11

These days, the convenience and accessibility of streaming allows headlines to impact the Billboard Hot 100 more quickly than ever before. Earlier this year, for example, no fewer than four DMX singles re-entered the Hot 100 within two weeks of the rapper's untimely death.