Avenue 5

[CaptainWacky]

Sci fi comedy from Armando Iannucci starring Hugh Laurie? Yes! I will watch, thanks!

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Wow...that hits ALL the Mine Field sweet spots!

 

[CaptainWacky]

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Looks good. The Love Boat meets The Orville meets Veep.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I watched the first episode. It was...okay. Not laugh out loud brilliant like early Veep or anything. Hugh Laurie was the best part. I liked when it was revealed he was an English guy pretending to be American (meta!) Some of the other characters felt a bit one note, but it's only the first episode so maybe they'll get better. Good to see Neelix in it and he was quite funny! I'll keep watching.

 

[whisky]

You could see where the money went, they just could have used some of it to write some jokes.

 

[whisky]

So close to turning the show off, where is the comedy?

The annoying woman and her microphone is getting really old, really fast.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I liked when the coffin started orbiting the ship.

 

[whisky]

That's not how the force (of gravity) works

 

[CaptainWacky]

The fourth episode felt like a bit of an improvement over the first three (which felt like they should have been all one episode.) Still disappointing overall and some of the characters are worthless (the squabbling married couple) but there were some funny parts.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Renewed for season 2 by HBO.

 

[Loktar]

Hope it makes it to Season 3 since they're stuck out in space for at least 3 years.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Maybe they renewed it because they know episode five is the one where it definitely gets good...

 

[whisky]

Fuck me, is this show an experiment in driving the audience to commit suicide?

 

[CaptainWacky]

You could just not watch it at this point.

 

[whisky]

It's slightly less wrist slitting than hello ladies.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Latest episode had some really dark comedy and that made it the best one yet. They should definitely lean more into this type of stuff. Disappointing they killed Paterson Joseph so soon though.

 

[whisky]

Get your hands out of his ballsack actually made me laugh.

I wonder if season 2 would have been any good.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

It's been renewed so you will get the chance to find out.

 

[whisky]

The show might have been renewed, but I think I might be cancelled.