What Happened This Week? This first season of The Orville has given viewers a variety of episode types. MacFarlane and the gang have given us an emotional episode, a thinker, a buddy comedy, and now an action-oriented episode (or was it?). The Orville 108 focused on Dr. Finn (Penny Johnson Jerald), her two boys Marcus (BJ Tanner) […]
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The Orville 107 – Majority Rule – Review
What Happened This Week? Captain Mercer stayed on board the Orville in this week’s episode (The Orville 107), as Kelly led a mismatched collection of bridge crew officers on an away mission. With Dr. Finn, Alara, and Lamarr, Kelly searched for a pair of missing Planetary Union anthropologists on a mission to research a familiar-looking […]
The Orville 106 – Krill – Review
What Happened This Week? “Those aren’t Pillows!!!” – Whether the buddy comedy adventure takes place on a Plane, Train, Automobile, or in this case, Spacecraft, Daley Review always calls it a win! This week’s episode, The Orville 105 – Krill, for all it serious implications, follows the hi-jinx filled familiar plots of some of our […]
The Orville 105 – Pria – Review
What Happened This Week? Who better to deliver The Orville 105’s lesson, “Trust your First Officer”, than Jonathan Frakes? Our beloved Commander Riker guided “Pria” into our coveted favorite episode spot this week. Main Plot The Orville crew narrowly saved the Captain (Charlize Theron) of a doomed ship in a high stakes game of comet-stranded […]
The Orville 104 – If the Stars Should Appear – Review
What Happened This Week? After last week’s “message-episode” morality play, the crew of the Orville return to more conventional explorations in The Orville 104. James Conway, a directing veteran of all four post-Star Trek TOS series helms this episode which borrows plots from STTOS, but looks a lot like a Star Trek TNG episode. The writers named […]