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Encounter at Midpoint: just what the h(olod)eck is going on in Picard?

TV Feature | Luke Whiston | 6th March 2020

I'm finding Picard a very difficult show to place - part mawkish reverence, part campy nostalgia, quite a lot of waiting for that classic TNG vibe to kick in. Will it ever settle on a tone? I'm not the hugest Trekkie but back in the day The Next Generation was perfectly timed for getting in from school, doing your homework, then sticking on Sky One to have an adventure with Jean-Luc and the crew of the Enterprise D, hopefully learning something about the nature of humanity (or at the very least a holodeck episode where they're all wearing period costumes). So there's a lot of fondness there. And sure all my friends were out smoking and necking, but who are they going to call on to arbitrate grave matters of existentialism? Probably not me as I've fallen out of contact with many of them in the 20 years since. I wonder if they've ever looked me up and seen I write about Star Trek on the internet now? Oh God, I've wasted my life!

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Amazon greenlights original series about drills

TV News | Ed Williamson | 31st March 2014

I read that Amazon had given the go-ahead for a new series called Bosch to stream on Amazon Prime, which sounded interesting, so I Googled "amazon bosch" to find out more. I don't know, it looks all right, but it's probably one of those ones that doesn't really get going till season two.

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