RedLetterMedia
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46:51 · 2.8M views · Jan 27, 2020
RedLetterMedia's Mike and Rich review the first episode of Star Trek: Picard. It is a long, jokey and critical take from long-time Star Trek fans.
Cited as an entertaining and brutal review of Picard, including in a thread about a takedown of another Picard review.
3 comments from Hacker News
I haven't seen it and don't have any interest in seeing it based on what I've been hearing from friends. Rich and Mike of Red Letter Media (the "70-minute Phantom Menace review" folks) are big Star Trek fans (in case you've never watched any of their stuff--Mike mentions Star Trek in so many reviews), and they haven't been liking it, to say the least. It's entertaining to watch them torture themselves from watching the show and recounting it. ep 1: this video ep 2 & 3: [LINK] ep 4 & 5: [LINK] ep 6, 7, 8: [LINK]
It's interesting that Angry Joe got taken down; AFAIK, RedLetterMedia's review didn't get taken down, and it featured decent chunks of non-trailer footage (not sure if any of them were 10+ seconds consecutively) [0]. And, like AJ's, it was a very negative review. I don't doubt AJ was the victim of manual review, I'm just surprised RLM wouldn't be on CBS's shit list as well. (and tangentially: both are right; the "Picard" show is depressingly bad and derivative. I've only watched the first ep, but it had more gratuitous (and cheap looking) martial arts action than several seasons of TNG.) [0] this video
RedLetterMedia does a fine grained overview[0] of Picard, where they brutally dunk on the show over the course of hours of commentary. I wholeheartedly agree with their takes too which is sad, because I really enjoyed Star Trek as well [0]: this video