![]() But Klyden disagrees, and the ensuing firestorm of controversy eventually leads to Ed and his second-in-command Kelly (Adrianne Palicki) arguing against the drastic measure of changing the baby’s sex in a Moclan court of law. The classic holiday tale convinces him that his child’s unusual status could become an unexpected advantage despite everyone believing otherwise. (And for what it’s worth, it is not altogether clear if anyone on the show knows the difference between “sex” and “gender,” as MacFarlane’s script uses the two terms almost interchangeably.)īortus eventually changes his mind thanks to a spontaneous viewing of the 1964 Rankin/Bass Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer special (which is centuries old in The Orville’s reality, but that’s true for all of the show’s pop culture references). Written by MacFarlane and directed by Star Trek’s Brannon Braga, “About a Girl” deals with enormously complicated questions of gender with a staggering bluntness that somehow still manages to be vague. Finn ( Star Trek’s Penny Johnson Jerald) perform a “corrective” procedure to make the baby male. The new parents immediately request that Dr. But the crew of the Orville - the spaceship captained by MacFarlane’s character, Ed - find themselves in a bit of a pickle when two Moclan crew members, Bortus (Peter Macon) and Klyden (Chad E. Here are the basics of “About a Girl” (a title that should already signal some winky weirdness ahead): In The Orville’s future universe, the all-male Moclan alien species reproduces by hatching their offspring in eggs. Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville isn't the spoof Fox advertised. Instead, I’m here to talk about how baffling I found The Orville’s third episode in particular, and why it’s the best encapsulation of why the show doesn’t work at all, despite its lofty ambitions. (It is not.) As it turns out, Seth MacFarlane creating a show where he plays space captain in a barely concealed Star Trek sandbox is exactly as confusing as it sounds.īut I’m not here today to talk about how bewildering The Orville is in general I trod that ground plenty hard in my initial review of the series. What Fox has now decided to call a “space adventure series” is neither comedy nor drama, funny nor poignant - even though it clearly believes it’s straddling both lines in a particularly clever way. The Orville might not be this fall’s worst new TV show, but it sure is the most confusing. The episode of the week for September 16 through 23 is “About a Girl,” the third episode of Fox’s The Orville. Every Sunday, we pick a new episode of the week.
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