'Moon Knight' and 'Picard' wrap up well

'Strange New Worlds' fresh, unbound new Trek

May 19, 2022

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It's Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) and Spock (Ethan Peck), but not as you've seen them before, in "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds."

I'm trying something different for this week's reviews. Please let me know if it works for you.

I often review the start of new shows (or the start of new seasons of returning shows), but unless the entire season dumps at once, rarely do I review the conclusions of those season-long arcs.

This matters because most modern television and streaming shows are written as season-long arcs, which was absolutely not the case with TV shows when I was growing up in the 1980s.

Eighties TV had notable exceptions such as soap operas and miniseries, and long-running or especially popular shows were affor...

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