# The Orville season 3 (now on Disney+ also)

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**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")\
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**Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-season-3-now-on-disney-also/958946/374 "2022-08-24T15:50:23Z")

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Reposted from the “series recently watched” thread:

> [@Series you've recently watched, are now watching or have given up on](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1653):
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> **The Orville: New Horizons** - S3 was a definite improvement over the previous two seasons overall; they’ve kept just enough comedy to keep it fun while getting rid of the “We must appeal to the _Family Guy_ audience” bullshit that really dragged the previous seasons down. All ten episodes were reasonably solid and the stories moved at a decent pace. Also, I haven’t checked the rest of the internet but I’m pretty sure I spotted a goodly number of nods to _Star Wars_ along the way.
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> Downsides: Apart from the soapboxing (a habit it shares with _Star Trek_), there were a couple of actors who still are quite wooden, several scenes ended with characters silently staring at each other because the writers clearly didn’t know how to finish the scene, and much as I like Scott Grimes there is a limit to the number of cheesy songs I want to hear him sing and this season blew past that limit quickly.
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> Still a lot better than _ST: Discovery_ though.

To elaborate: J Lee still hasn’t learned how to say his lines in a normal human fashion, although he’s certainly improved from previous seasons and they’re actually giving him a lot better material. The other distractingly inadequate actor was Anne “Grr! I am a one-dimensional angry woman apart from one scene where I inexplicably relax and smile and sing and then go back to being angry!” Winters. Some of that _was_ the fault of the writers but tbh I was happy to see her go. I mean, I get her character arc, but that was pretty much all there was of her, apart from her unexplained magic power.

And before we started watching the last episode I turned to the spouse and said “I bet we see the sandwich again”. Nailed that one.

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