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I’ve been hard on Strange New Worlds this season, trying to hold the show to the high standards it set in its first two seasons. And I’ve probably sounded a bit like a broken record, complaining about the “very special episodes” that did nothing to advance either the plot or grow the characters, the really […]
Sigh. Every time I start to get my hopes up that Strange New Worlds is going to seriously approach a character’s deep internal trauma this season, I end up disappointed. And this exploration of the light and dark sides of La’an was easily the most disappointed I’ve been with the series in a good while […]
Well, on the plus side, this wasn’t a genre-specific episode. But once again, the idea behind the episode – at least the A plot, as the B plot on the planet was more successful – was stronger than the execution of it. And that failure of execution can be tracked to two key pieces of […]
I was all set to really dislike this week’s Strange New World installment. Not because it was based on a soap opera*, but because out of seven episodes this season, six have been “very special episodes” based on a different genre of storytelling. As Alan Sepinwall mentioned in a recent review of the series, if […]
I promise I had no idea this episode was coming when I wrote my review of last week’s installment. But wow, I’m really amazed that only a week after I lamented that Strange New Worlds seems uninterested in writing for its deep bench of main cast members, the show turned around and gave us exactly […]
The puppet episode. An episode I suspect many fans were waiting for, if only to see if lightning could strike twice and Strange New Worlds could turn in two really strong unique genre episodes (the first, of course, being the shockingly good musical episode back in season two). Alas, this round of pushing the boundaries […]
I’ve watched a shockingly large number of noir-based TV shows in the last several months. It must be a current writing trend. And, as someone who finds noir to be generally fun, I’m certainly not complaining. That being said, aside from the fun use of black and white – especially Uhura mentioning that it’s hard […]
Now, that was a fun, albeit pretty light in terms of any real story*, episode. As a fan of Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia is great and deserves more to do), I’m always happy when the writers remember that she exists and let her take center stage (even if that’s only happened a grand total of […]
Now that’s more like it. What an episode. Easily one of the best in the entire series up to this point. As those who watched AppleTV+’s hit Widow’s Bay this spring know, it’s not easy to craft an effective horror episode. You have to balance legitimate scares – having creepy ghouls walking in the background […]
I’ve never been a huge fan of time travel Star Trek stories. Sure, you occasionally get a truly great one like “City on the Edge of Forever” in The Original Series, but more often than not, they end up like this one. A device to twist a historical moment in time into something that our […]