The Orville

:

Season 2
  • Network: FOX , HULU
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 10, 2017
Season #: 3, 2, 1
User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 111 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 92 out of 111
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 111
  3. Negative: 13 out of 111
Watch Now

Where To Watch

Stream On
Buy on
Stream On
Stream On
Expand

Review this tv show

  1. Your Score
    0 out of 10
    Rate this:
    • 10
    • 9
    • 8
    • 7
    • 6
    • 5
    • 4
    • 3
    • 2
    • 1
    • 0
    • 0
  1. Submit
  2. Check Spelling

User Reviews

view
per page
  1. kenget
    Jan 26, 2019
    2
    Started as a nice star-trek-parody it turned into a steaming pile of juvenile sh|t.
  2. ShaMana
    Jan 25, 2019
    1
    This show is beyond terrible. Maybe it's supposed to be a Star Trek parody, but it's not funny at all. Maybe a Star Trek homage then, but everything it plain terrible for a sci fi show. The people making it doesn't care enough to make a comedy show nor a drama show. Doesn't care to make a sci fi show nor a modern realistic show. Doesn't care enough to make a good script or a bad script.This show is beyond terrible. Maybe it's supposed to be a Star Trek parody, but it's not funny at all. Maybe a Star Trek homage then, but everything it plain terrible for a sci fi show. The people making it doesn't care enough to make a comedy show nor a drama show. Doesn't care to make a sci fi show nor a modern realistic show. Doesn't care enough to make a good script or a bad script. It's a mix of everything thrown together, paired with cringe worthy acting, painfully terrible sets and props, characters that are caricatures of people (or aliens) and a show tone that jumps more rapidly than a ECG of a person currently experiencing ventricular fibrillation. I genuinely can't find one redeeming quality.

    There was an episode with a genuinely interesting story that held for a grand total of ~4 minutes when the show went off the rails and the characters started making sex and fart jokes...    … Expand
  3. Tiger_X
    Jan 6, 2019
    0
    Anyone rating this show 10/10, is lying. It's not funny and the characters are cringe-tastic.

    10/10 would put the Orville on the same level with Game of Thrones. Not only is that clearly impossible, it's also fraudulent. Galaxy Quest did Star Trek spoofing correctly. Even with flaws, it's very funny and makes outer space feel exciting. I wouldn't give Galaxy Quest a score above 8/10    Anyone rating this show 10/10, is lying. It's not funny and the characters are cringe-tastic.

    10/10 would put the Orville on the same level with Game of Thrones. Not only is that clearly impossible, it's also fraudulent. Galaxy Quest did Star Trek spoofing correctly. Even with flaws, it's very funny and makes outer space feel exciting.

    I wouldn't give Galaxy Quest a score above 8/10 despite the great acting and FX. The Orville is light years away from being half as good.    … Expand
  4. Ededed
    Jan 19, 2019
    0
    This show is a premise in search of a plot. Its aimless treatment of supposedly culturally relevant topics is immature and sophomoric at best. It offends the intellect as well as the genre.

    Still a pale ripoff of Star Trek and not a good parody or imitation in any case.
  5. viroodiem
    Feb 17, 2019
    0
    Season 2 opener was abysmal. It was about basically nothing but everyone's romantic relationships. It says a lot when the highlight of episode is Jason Alexander under 15 lbs of silicone face mask essentially being the reptilian equivalent to Guinan.

    More picking the bones of Trek and doing a poor job of it. Its still the same. The sets look basic, the graphics are unimpressive. The    Season 2 opener was abysmal. It was about basically nothing but everyone's romantic relationships. It says a lot when the highlight of episode is Jason Alexander under 15 lbs of silicone face mask essentially being the reptilian equivalent to Guinan.

    More picking the bones of Trek and doing a poor job of it. Its still the same. The sets look basic, the graphics are unimpressive. The writing while funny at times has no depth. It is simply put not a good show and Season 2 shows in a much more profound way just how bad it truly is. It wont allow itself to be its own thing. It knows without relying on Trek name and concepts it cant stand on its own.

    STD may not be the trek anyone wants but for all its worts when you take off the nostalgia goggles at least that is actually trek. The Orville still is the same thing it has always been, A TV series that amounts to one long running cutaway gag that wishes it was a fraction of what it is trying way too hard to be and failing miserably at it.

    EDIT:

    Episodes 2 was unmemorable and just as bad as the pilot with their continued sole focus on workplace romantic comedy.

    Episode 3 was the closest thing to a good episode this season. However it guts any good will it had with its ridiculously long and drawn out farewell to Halston Sage. Visually it was shinier reflecting the higher budget this season in spots. Having two trek alums cameo also comes as a benefit of the higher budget. However theepisode still amounts to nothing of any consequence. It was simply just people talking.

    Episode 4 The very definition of cringe worthy. Taking pot shots at Star Trek Discovery in its main plot that was so beyond telegraphed from the first episode of the season that it would have taken a blind man not to see this coming. The surprise is that they let it go so early in the season and chose not to exhibit any depth to the story by building any narrative around it. The definition of premature and the illustration of anti climactic.

    Episode 5: This is where the shows fandom goes completely off the rail. It exposes the pure hypocrisy of the fans of the show that claim that THIS is Star Trek. Those who do cite the spirit of Gene Roddenberrys vision of a crew of humans who work together peacefully and honorably to solve their difference. This episode spits in the face at that "noble" ambition by being everything it claims that it rejects.

    If episode 5 actually illustrates anything of Roddenberrys vision its the same wild west cowboy TV/Film of the 1940s - 1960s Complete with Wilhelm scream worthy head over heel falls off second story structures.

    Episode 6-7 Both can be conveniently be reduced down to being yet again more episodes about dating. There is so little sci fi to even be wrung out here. Much less it being Trek

    This show has now become an examination not of its own merits but just how hypocritical its fanbase is in continuing to defend this Seth drek.    … Expand
  6. RADErX4
    Apr 20, 2019
    0
    The show that's so bad even the Metacritic critics won't grade it. It has a 0 score from 0 critics.

    The show made a noticeable attempt to find out what it is and still came up with a season premiere about pee jokes. This is one of the worst sci-fi series ever made...ever!
  7. Personalshopper
    Jun 8, 2022
    2
    First season was very good. Very funny. There are some decent comedy bits in the second season but it is mostly mired in boring stories. What was good about this show in the first season is that it was a parody of Star Trek but now it is just trying to be Star Trek with cringy social justice junk. Was Seth