Seinfeld meets Star trek. (Ironic because Jason Alexander appears in this one).
It sounds terrible, but that's the Orville's strength. They can just be people. You can have boredom and the occasional hangover and a captain with a slight drinking problem and bouts of depression and Aliens who say the wrong thing and bad breakups and still have outer-space and high technology.
Not that Star-Trek didn't explore those things, they did, here and there, but never an entire episode on what goes wrong with relationships and never with this much humor.
The best thing about this show is that it never takes itself seriously but the characters in it take themselves seriously. It's real people, sometimes flawed, entertainingly interacting with each other with all the benefits of odd holodeck programs and strange aliens. It's not great TV and it's not Emmy material, but it's a fun episode and this was a good start to season two.
Ten stars for the episode. Show still gets a "fun" 8 from me but a few more episodes like this one and I might bump it to a 9.
It sounds terrible, but that's the Orville's strength. They can just be people. You can have boredom and the occasional hangover and a captain with a slight drinking problem and bouts of depression and Aliens who say the wrong thing and bad breakups and still have outer-space and high technology.
Not that Star-Trek didn't explore those things, they did, here and there, but never an entire episode on what goes wrong with relationships and never with this much humor.
The best thing about this show is that it never takes itself seriously but the characters in it take themselves seriously. It's real people, sometimes flawed, entertainingly interacting with each other with all the benefits of odd holodeck programs and strange aliens. It's not great TV and it's not Emmy material, but it's a fun episode and this was a good start to season two.
Ten stars for the episode. Show still gets a "fun" 8 from me but a few more episodes like this one and I might bump it to a 9.