Welcome back, dear reader, as we continue to review Star Trek: Picard with Season 1 Episode 7, “Nepenthe.” Another superb episode. For the most part, we take a brief respite as things gear up for the action-packed final three episodes (if the previews are to be believed). The reunion with Riker and Troi was both […] More
Welcome back, dear reader, as we continue to review Star Trek: Picard with Season 1 Episode 6, “The Impossible Box.” At long last, the journey we set out on at the onset of the show, i.e. “find the sister,” has been accomplished. But no sooner do we have the entire gang together, then they are […] More
Welcome back, dear reader, as we continue to review Star Trek: Picard with Season 1 Episode 5, “Stardust City Rag.” What a fun episode. I don’t care what anybody says about “post-scarcity society,” that was a great hour of Star Trek. I think the timing was perfect to add a little levity. And come on, […] More
Welcome back, dear reader, as we continue to review Star Trek: Picard with Season 1 Episode 4, “Absolute Candor.” This was a fun one, and a bit of a stand-alone episode, as it turns out. Leaving the three-part pilot behind us, we’re now in the capable hands of actor-turned-director Jonathan Frakes. I wonder if he’s […] More
Welcome back, dear reader, as we continue to review Star Trek: Picard with Season 1 Episode 3, “The End Is the Beginning.” At long last, Act 1 is done. If you weren’t already aware, at the U.S. premiere, they showed all three of these first episodes, not just the single pilot episode. So we’re also […] More
Welcome back, dear reader, as we continue to review Star Trek: Picard with Season 1 Episode 2, “Maps and Legends.” As explained in several interviews, this episode is really part two of what could be viewed as a three-part pilot. As such, it is still heavy on the exposition and light on the action. There […] More
“Blue skies, smiling at me.” And after that premiere of Star Trek: Picard, I’m smiling right back at them. In case you didn’t binge watch a ton of old episodes and movies to prepare, that song is a nod to the final movie, Star Trek: Nemesis, where Data sang it as his wedding gift to […] More
This is the episode we should have seen coming; the episode that a series with the name Jordan Peele attached to it would produce. And even though the episode is not written or directed by Peele himself, his fingerprints of genre manipulation and subversion are all over it. And thus, like Get Out and Us, […] More
I hesitate to use the word “finally” but with “The Blue Scorpion”, the new Twilight Zone reboot has finally found the perfect balance in merging social commentary and compelling drama into a cohesive whole. Though there have been excellent episodes in the past, such as “Replay”, which tackled topics of systemic racism, and “Not All […] More
While trying to come up with an angle for this week’s episode of The Twilight Zone, titled “Point of Origin,” all I could do was sigh. Thoughts ran through my head, ideas came out in bullet points, but ultimately, it all led to me sitting back in my chair, arms on my head, and sighing. […] More
“Tonight, Annie Miller found herself in the center of a mysterious and violent epidemic. What she encountered was no material disease but rather a plague of conscious. One that gave men permission to ignore decency, consent, and fear. And tonight, all it took was a few innocuous little rocks to turn men into monsters…here, in […] More
Despite some mixed results between critics and viewers, I’ve been a champion of The Twilight Zone reboot so far. The premiere episode, “The Comedian”, was a well written and tense introduction while “Nightmare at 30,000 Feet” and “Replay” were atmospheric and innovative with their use of technology and social commentary in their narratives. The fourth […] More
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