Picard Embraced Being Absolutely Unhinged
The first season of Picard was a massive disappointment, a show that desperately wanted to demonstrate how it didn’t need to lean on the nostalgia of its titular hero’s place within Trek canon until it decided it absolutely needed to, and did so with reckless abandon. It’s hard to say that, by the time it ended, Picard’s sophomore season was particularly good, but it was definitely better than the first through the simple honest of it letting itself be completely bonkers, for better or worse. Time travel? Alt reality that kind of barely matters and everyone’s a bit fash? Wil Wheaton appearing out of nowhere? Q bullshit? That absolutely wonderfully terribly ludicrous season finale? A mess, but at least it was charming about it.
