First epi was this past Sunday 1/19/20. Gad plays Herman Judd, an Elon Musk type billionaire, but less bright, that has established a space tourism group where hundreds of people ride on a space cruise ship around Jupiter and back to earth over a two month time frame. Laurie plays the captain of the ship, with questionable credentials.
Looks like it’s only scheduled for 4 episodes.
It was okay. There were a few funny parts, but I think I’m going to pass on the rest. If it gets picked up for a second season, I’ll be surprised.
I liked it, especially as a spoof of WALL-E and The Love Boat. Josh Gad as an ignorant Elon Musk is a good analogy.
Did you see his interview with Stephen Colbert last week? Josh was explaining the setup for the show, and Hugh Laurie’s role. Stephen then asked him, “and who are you?” Josh’s reply was great:
I saw the first ep and thought it was OK. I do think it dragged in places and some of the humor just seemed a bit out of place for the premise. I don’t understand why Zack Woods’ character is such a dick, other than just to be a dick. Josh Gad and Hugh Laurie are great. And it’s always nice to see Ethan Phillips not being Neelix.
It was okay. I get that they want an ensemble cast but I found the passengers to be borderline unwatchable. Mrs Busybody and her husband (“we get very good insurance rates!”) are particularly bad.
The show would be better if the guests were treated as a single faceless antagonist and the focus was entirely on the crew.
The reviews say it gets better by the third and fourth episodes. I have to hope so, because this first episode didn’t work at all.
The same guy wrote Veep. There the characters were entertainingly awful, but totally believable in the context of their jobs. Now they’re neither. That’s got to change.
I liked it but agree that it dragged in bits. I typically give promising shows a few episodes to find their feet, often a lot of the character setup you need to do in the beginning is the antithesis of what makes comedy work. There’s enough pedigree with the show runner and cast for me to give it a couple more episodes.
From the previews (which, admittedly, I didn’t watch closely) I was expecting more of a Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B (Douglas Adams) show. This may still turn into that, especially as seasons progress. It might even be an improvement. I’ll give it a season to see if I like it.
It had a few moments, nut dragged quite a bit, which for a half-hour show could be a disaster if they can’t tighten up the writing.
I loved the crew characters, but both of the passenger couples fell completely flat. Now that I think about it, cutting out all scenes with the two couples would make a nice tight script!
It seems that the interest in this show has dropped off quickly. While there were a few funny moments in the second episode, this show is not really pulling me in. There are far too many annoying characters and none of them are particularly likable. I am going to give it one more episode before removing it from my queue.
Second episode was a little better with the zaniness level raised. The crew relations guy singing “Starman” during the funeral had me in tears on the floor :D.
The secondary passenger characters are still totally unfunny and uninteresting however.
So they did a funeral for the dead crewman, who was ejected in what we were told was a solid-gold coffin weighing something like 800 pounds, only to find that the coffin ended up orbiting the ship. And then later, when three passenger corpses were also ejected and they also ended up orbiting the ship. So is the science accurate?