Martin Carr reviews the ninth episode of The Orville season 2…There is tangible loss  in The Orville this week as life lessons are learned, Union space gets thrashed and unlikely allies team up for a one time deal. A series which is usually big on character also throws in some good old fashioned pitch battles […]

Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of The Orville season 2…Drawing heavily from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Seth MacFarlane introduces us to Kaylon this week as Isaac’s shut down forces an interplanetary visit. On the surface everything is clean lines, polished metal spires and automaton construction, stripped of emotion and driven by logic. Using the situation […]

Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of The Orville season 2…This week marks a rare example of Seth MacFarlane relinquishing writing duties to someone else. However tonal shifts are unrecognisable and The Orville manages to bring us another solid fifty minutes of television. Mixing it up between relationship concerns and melodrama it manages to avoid […]

Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of The Orville season 2…You could just look at this week as another exercise in relationship exploration as two people from diametrically apposed backgrounds are brought together. You might choose to go deeper and consider the concept of feelings and what makes us sentient, self-aware and therefore human. Then finally […]