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I’m a bit late to the game on The Pitt, the new HBOMax medical drama that combines the storytelling structure of 24 with the complex, fast-paced world of the emergency department – the first of many connections the series has to the long-running NBC medical drama ER. We join the medical professionals of the Pitt […]
I’ll admit “Nepenthe” was the one episode of Star Trek: Picard that I was the most wary of watching this season, largely because I feared it would just turn into one giant nostalgia bomb – stalling out the plot and making me wish for things (characters, plotlines, more nostalgia) that the series is never going […]
Ok. That was more like it. While Picard certainly still has some growing pains to work through (more on that later), “Absolute Candor” was the most complete episode of the series to date, managing to integrate the Narek/Soji/Rizzo piece of the story into the much more robust Picard elements to satisfying effect. I actually found […]
The initial two episodes into Star Trek: Picard have made one thing crystal clear: The series will live and die on the strength of Patrick Stewart’s performance. Considering how Picard-heavy these two episodes have been, that hasn’t exactly been a problem for the series. In fact, I’d consider it quite the strength. But when the […]
After watching the previews for Star Trek: Picard, I was wary as to just what the series would be about. It appeared to be more concerned with rehashing the greatest hits of Jean-Luc Picard’s time in the Trek universe and less with charting a new story. Hell, there was a giant cube spaceship that looked […]