AngryJoe really lost his s**t at this season. I wouldn't go as far as his screamed 0/10, but...
I started out really wanting to love it. I defended season 1 despite its...MANY issues, because I saw real promise and some solid good elements, but season 2 really just fell apart.
It's a damn shame, too. Cabrera, Ryan, Hurd, and Stewart are great. Spiner was good in season 1. Laris's actress is solid. NuGuinan is plenty capable when she's allowed to work her stuff. Elnor's actor is at least good at physicality. Sure, Briones and Pill suck, especially Briones, but the rest of the cast is at worst capable.
But they just don't use that cast effectively. Cabrera was criminally underused, as was Ryan, Hurd spent the whole season Being Sad with no real progress, Briones returning was 100 percent unnecessary and a detriment to the show, and the less said about Jurati and the Borg, the better.
The way this show handled Seven's reassimilation and indeed the Borg in general was so bad that Jeri Ryan visibly thought that she should be acting a different way from how she was told to and how her lines expected her to. I've never seen "You should be PROUD of the lasting scars caused by your mutilation and rape analogous experience!" played seriously before, or having your guts scooped out by an unfeeling AI that wants to use you as a slave then spare parts treated like an exotic vacation to Kenya that you came back from incessantly repeating the 3 words of Swahili you learned.
It's like the whole season was written by a strawman caricature of an out of touch Hollywood liberal from far right propaganda.
