# The Orville season 3 (now on Disney+ also) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [February 5, 2022, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946 "2022-02-05T03:04:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/41 "2022-06-16T03:23:07Z")
Yes, but humor is what sets The Orville apart and it is lacking this season so far, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/42 "2022-06-16T11:31:58Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > It was interesting that they made Malloy part of the anti-Isaac movement without actually coming back to that later. I wonder if they’re setting him up for something down the road. My initial thought was that Malloy was going to infiltrate the anti-Isaac organization (that turned out not to exist), but apparently he was not lying in that scene. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/43 "2022-06-16T14:33:30Z")
No argument there, but I wonder if McFarland is still stinging over the criticism of juvenile humor in the early episodes and is trying to go darker and edgier to prove something to the supposedly more discerning streaming audience. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/44 "2022-06-16T16:37:17Z")
I’ve thought from the beginning that going “darker and edgier” was his plan all along. It was well-known that he wanted to do a Star Trek-like show, but since he was only really known for comedy, making it a comedy was the only way he could get his foot in the door. And really, the show as it’s evolved has pretty much followed that arc. How many episodes have been laugh out loud funny? How many in the last half of last season had anything funny at all? At this point, “Malloy acts like a normal “Brodude”” is about as close as they get to humor. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/45 "2022-06-16T17:15:58Z")
I preferred Season 3 ep1 to ep2 - ep1 had people acting in consistently understandable ways (it makes sense for people to fear and hate Isaac, it makes sense for the Captain to tell officers that they sometimes need to work with people they don’t like, and it makes sense that a kid is shocked when someone he tells to go away kills himself). It wasn’t as funny an episode as I would have liked, but it mostly made sense. Ep2 had some stuff that made sense (a reluctant temporary alliance is not a solid one), but the foolish decisions regarding contamination made no sense - and weren’t funny either. There was room for jokes about uncomfortable personal protective equipment, or faulty emergency lighting or such, but instead it was played straight - and suggested that the crew were idiots (rather than goofy but not completely incompetent). At least the Admiral’s chat with Isaac had a few amusing moments. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/46 "2022-06-16T17:20:17Z")
Even the end of S2 had plenty of humor. The Moclan cigarette addiction B plot was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in my life. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/47 "2022-06-16T17:27:09Z")
I did like her character Cassidy Yates in DS9 a lot better. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/48 "2022-06-16T17:28:15Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > The Moclan cigarette addiction B plot was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in my life. “I feel as if I’ve been standing my entire life and I just sat down.” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/49 "2022-06-16T17:35:14Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Yeah, that’s the second season closer I’d forgotten most of that. How does season three reconcile that? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/50 "2022-06-16T17:38:00Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > We watched S3 Episode 1 the other night and we were bored out of our minds. Where was the humor? I’m very, very glad that it is now science fiction with a bit of humor rather than a comedy set on a space ship. A vast improvement in MHP. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/51 "2022-06-16T18:30:07Z")
The second season closer was an alternate timeline where the Kaylons defeated the Union, because Kelly and Ed never got married. So the entire episode takes place in the ruins of Union planets. At the end of the episode they fix the timeline, so the events of the episode never actually happened. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/52 "2022-06-16T19:03:58Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I did like her character Cassidy Yates in DS9 a lot better. Definitely! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/53 "2022-06-16T19:11:17Z")
Thanks Muldoonthief. I have the recordings on my Infinity DVD, but it will be easier to find them on Hulu. =) ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/54 "2022-06-16T19:13:07Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > > > I did like her character Cassidy Yates in DS9 a lot better. > > Definitely! But I’ll add that I liked her character Beverly on _The Larry Sanders Show_ even more than that. That was her best role. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/55 "2022-06-16T20:06:28Z")
I’ve not seen that. She is a versatile actress to play characters that are not like each other. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/56 "2022-06-16T20:12:23Z")
I think that’s the essence of being an actor. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/57 "2022-06-16T20:17:00Z")
Certainly the essence of being a good actor. I was also impresses with the different characters Lola Allbright of Peter Gunn could play. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/58 "2022-06-16T21:50:23Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > In general, I hate starting off episodes with dream sequences that you don’t know are dream sequences. Boy, are you in for a treat when you queue up Episode 3! Or perhaps I should say “Q” up Episode 3. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/59 "2022-06-16T23:04:50Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Boy, are you in for a treat when you queue up Episode 3! > > Or perhaps I should say “Q” up Episode 3. 😉 Yeah. (Some pun that relates to _Tron_.) Also, I absolutely, positively did _not_ see Randal coming. (Pun related to _Three O’Clock High_.) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/60 "2022-06-17T01:53:53Z")
Episode three was outstanding, but I wish Gordon had shot the bitch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946.md?page=4)