[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Star Trek: Picard” Episode 2, “Maps and Legends.”]
When is “Star Trek: Picard” going to start?
Yes, we’re two episodes into the new CBS All Access series, but most of what’s unfolded so far feels like elaborate table setting for adventures to come. The question is, how much longer is this table setting going to last?
Episode 2, titled “Maps and Legends,” is merely a continuation of the premiere installment. It’s a serialized show, of course, so that’s to be expected. But together these two episodes are like the “Issue 0” of a comic-book run: a prologue, rather than the adventure itself.
This is where showrunner Michael Chabon’s literary background is both a blessing and a curse: In his script with Akiva Goldsman for “Maps and Legends,” there is a novelistic richness of character, for certain, but also an over-emphasis on dialogue that you can visualize working on the page — but,...
When is “Star Trek: Picard” going to start?
Yes, we’re two episodes into the new CBS All Access series, but most of what’s unfolded so far feels like elaborate table setting for adventures to come. The question is, how much longer is this table setting going to last?
Episode 2, titled “Maps and Legends,” is merely a continuation of the premiere installment. It’s a serialized show, of course, so that’s to be expected. But together these two episodes are like the “Issue 0” of a comic-book run: a prologue, rather than the adventure itself.
This is where showrunner Michael Chabon’s literary background is both a blessing and a curse: In his script with Akiva Goldsman for “Maps and Legends,” there is a novelistic richness of character, for certain, but also an over-emphasis on dialogue that you can visualize working on the page — but,...
- 1/30/2020
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
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