![]() There are lots of punchlines, but a ton don’t land, maybe most. This show needs an anchor badly, and none of the characters are willing.Īnd to be clear, I’d be fine with all of this if the show was funny, but it’s not, or at least, not nearly enough. So there’s a silver lining.Īlso dumb: Rav abandons her post as director of mission control and gets on a ship meant to deliver food seasoning to the Avenue 5. Also, it means that Ryan only has a matter of months rather than years to pilot the ship, surely dooming us all. If that were an option, I find it really hard to believe no one thought of it until now. ![]() Don’t ask, just watch.Īlso dumb: Billie puts it together that they can cut the travel time on the journey from three years to six months by jettisoning a bunch of stuff, which will both get everyone home faster and eliminate the need to get rid of 500 passengers, a prospect Rav is taking a lot of heat for back on Earth. What’s the advantage of making it impossible for anyone but a couple of people to whom anything could happen over a long journey capable of piloting this rig? I have no idea. When the Avenue 5 finally gets near Earth in a few years, there’s a plan to dock the ship at a space-faring port, but because of imprinting or something, the only person able to do it is Captain Clark (and Joe, but he died back in the premiere), so Ryan has to learn to pilot the ship in that time. Meanwhile, the plot turns in a couple of stupid ways. A couple of characters make comments about how that mass hallucination could distract them so they don’t mutiny, which sounds interesting, but we don’t really dive into their fascination beyond, ‘Isn’t it funny they like looking at poop?’ The only slip of an idea here is that the passengers are becoming overly invested in what Frank thinks is the face of Pope John Paul II in the ring of shit circling the ship. ![]() Jettison him and his promo-making, unbearably arch comic stylings!Īfter last week’s episode, I thought there was a chance the show was turning things around, but we’re back to aimless non-comedy this week. We’re seven episodes into this series and I’m still questioning what in the space hell Matt is doing on this ship. “We should throw Matt out of the airlock for making people panic that they’re gonna be thrown out of the airlock.” Yes, Iris! Yes, you should do that. ![]() Image: Avenue 5/HBO Episode 7: “Are You a Spider, Matt?” ![]()
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