It Just Keeps Getting Better
Earlier this year when Fox started airing commercials for The Orville I was rather unimpressed, but curious. The ads did not really draw me in and gave me no real idea about the show. The humor looked like it was going to fall flat and all in all just not work. I actually was picturing the show to last a few episodes and then fade away. I watched the first episode and it seemed to back up that belief. You could see what it was trying for, but it was missing its mark. The humor all felt forced with an awkwardness I couldn't explain. Yet there was something there that made me want to give it a chance. Episode by episode it has grown better. They seem to have figured out the pacing and how to work the humor into the episodes so it feels natural. Fairly early on the show made it clear it wanted to deal with some serious issues. In their third episode 'About a Girl' they jumped right into some significant moral and societal issues, that did not seem to fit with how the