UNAVOWED REVIEW IGN TV
The ever-game Jonathan Frakes is a huge presence this season both in front of the camera as Riker but also behind it as the director of two episodes, and while he spends most of his time helming TV shows these days, his work playing Riker here is some of the best we’ve ever seen from him.īut then again, the same can be said of the whole Next Gen outfit, as each character’s (and actor’s) return throughout the season triggers a release of fan endorphins that is only topped by the developments and changes they've undergone since we last saw them.
Soon enough, Picard is enlisting friends old and new to help save Beverly and Jack and, as it turns out, the very Federation itself, which is under threat from the same malicious force that is hunting his two loved ones. How wrong he will turn out to be, as Jack will, by season’s end, become the piece of Jean-Luc that has been missing all these years. “I am not a man who needs a legacy,” he says. Picard, meanwhile, sits at home at his vineyard, contemplating his life and adventures of yesteryear. The season began like an exploding photon torpedo as Gates McFadden made her return as Doctor Beverly Crusher, now blasting away at aliens and on the run with her adult son Jack (a charismatic Ed Speleers) – soon revealed to be the love-child Picard never knew about.
UNAVOWED REVIEW IGN PLUS
After a disastrous season 2, however, it seems that the powers that be at Paramount Plus gave the keys to the Enterprise to showrunner Terry Matalas, who would go on to take the old girl to that rare sweet spot in our modern era where nostalgia and actual, quality storytelling meet. Patrick Stewart famously (infamously at this point?) did not want his return to the character of Jean-Luc Picard to be a “ Next Generation reunion.” As a result, the first two seasons of the show were hamstrung by the need to break from the mold of what had come before.
0 kommentar(er)
