I was fine with them. They weren't my favorite episodes, but as @zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev mentions, it offers a different facet of the character. The idea of the stern, "stuffy" Picard indulging in 1940s American noir roleplay is amusing to me. It's one of those things that'd come up in one of those awful "two truths and a lie" icebreaker activities.