The Orville: About a Girl (2017)
Season 1, Episode 3
6/10
Political gender question in sci-fi turns cringe
20 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Seth MacFarlane is in this episode applying human logic to an alien species that have no living female people. I see what the episode is trying to do but it turns into a lot of cringe as we have no understanding of how and/or why there are no females on the aliens homeworld. Perhaps females need to feast on the blood of their enemies and only live to be 10 years old? These are things that should be included in a sci-fi adventure and since it is not it turns into a mock-fest of transgender identity rather than being hard-hitting as I am sure was intended.

I have nothing against HBTQ but the episode in itself is very cringe in how it is being handled. All the other people on the ship are just very judgemental without questioning the reasoning for it.

Could have been nice with a sci-fi show that doesn't try to put any agenda in the story line.
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