As with its first season, The Orville is kicking off its second run with two episodes in the first week. “Primal Urges,” airing in the show’s traditional time slot on Thursday night, is the lost episode from season one after Fox bumped it due to “scheduling.” It’s fairly easy to tell, to...
Read MoreAfter a year-plus-long wait – a tough pill to swallow when the show in question is on network television – The Orville has finally returned. I watched the series premiere last September expecting a Star Trek spoof with Seth MacFarlane’s particular brand of humor (which many have soured on, I g...
Read MoreThe Critical Drinker’s new movie is getting a helping hand from the guy who shepherded Jack Bauer’s journey. In a new livestream, the Drinker announced that Jon Cassar is coming aboard Rogue Elements: A Ryan Drake Story, the short film based on Drinker’s novels, presumably as a producer. If yo...
Read MoreSuperman & Lois begins its third – and probably final – season with “Closer,” a dull, wheel-spinning episode that feels like a waste of time more than the first step in a larger story. It goes through the usual season premiere motions, establishing where the characters are after last yea...
Read MoreThe Orville: New Horizons episode 10, “Future Unknown,” is out, marking the end of this incredible season. As the title suggests, the future of The Orville is shrouded in mystery. Will Disney and Hulu renew the show for a season 4? Will it rot on the shelf? Will the involvement of Disney corrupt...
Read MoreThe penultimate episode of The Orville: New Horizons, “Domino,” sees the beginning of the end of this Hail Mary season. This episode is full of surprises from its competent writing, incredible character arcs, the decision of whom to make the villains, and some impressive twists in several suppor...
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