Seth McFarlane’s sci-fi parody ‘The Orville’ might be fun

Seth McFarlane is the guy behind Family Guy, American Dad! and Ted. So if you like his humour you will probably like this. If you hate his stuff, then your course of action is pretty clear. Good for you. Personally, there are moments of his work that I find funny but on the whole, I can take it or leave it. But this is in space, so all bets are off.

I am hoping his live action science fiction comedy “The Orville” will be his best work yet because it looks like it has a lot of potential and appeals to my inner nerd. It is clearly a parody of Star Trek and if it is even half as good as Galaxy Quest, I will be very happy indeed. The difference between this and something like Family Guy is that the whole thing is set in a space with aliens and robots and so on, so it hopefully won’t be so reference-laden and desperate to shock. The effects look pretty decent too, although maybe that is just for the trailer. Oh, and it is also directed by Jon Favreau, who is generally pretty reliable.

We shall see. I like comedies set in space. I hope I will like The Orville. It is already pretty polarising on the internet but then everything is these days because people are opinionated idiots. (Fact, not opinion.) There is no official word on when it will be out, but it will be this year and on a Thursday. Here is the trailer: