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If you have been craving an old school Sci-Fi show that takes place in Outer Space, then The Orville that debuts on Fox tonight at 8p is for you. Seth MacFarlane loves Space and he perfectly pays homage to the genre with this show.
The series starts off with Ed Mercer (MacFarlane) walking in on his wife cheating on him with an alien (since it takes place in the future) before skipping forward a year. That is when he is the given the job to be the captain of The Orville. This is the first time he is going to lead a spaceship and he does not get the best crew.
First he asks his BFF Gordon Malloy (Scott Grimes) to be the helmsman. Malloy loves playing videogames, and even the future gamers are the same as they are today. If you know what I mean. Alara Kitan (Halston Sage) is Xelayan, who are known for their strength, and she is in charge of security even though she is just 23 years old and has no experience. Dr. Claire Finn (Penny Johnson Jerald) is a very experienced doctor who does not have a lot of faith in Mercer as the Captain, which is why she is there to help him. Isaac (Mark Jackson) is from a machine society who hates humans and took the job to study Earthlings. Lt. Commander (Bortus Peter Macon) is from a single-sexed species and he has no sense of humor. Finally, Mercer’s ex-wife (Adrianne Palicki) is the first office and Mercer has no sense of humor about that. Do you blame him?
Tonight The Orville gets her first test, and we will find out if this not-so-perfect crew can do the perfect save. Next week, they take a chapter from a classic The Twilight Zone episode. While in week three they take on a social issue in an original way that will really get you thinking.
If you are thinking you are going to get MacFarlane’s normal sense of humor with this show, then know now you will not. There is humor, but it is more about the journey of The Orville in space protecting the Union, which is like what they have in Star Wars.
While this is normally not my type of show, I find myself wanting more. It is our Star Trek and we have been needing one since the last version of Star Trek.
