The Humor
I didn’t really realize it until I was looking back over the entire season, but The Orville has scaled back a bit on its goofy comedy. However, the more serious tone it took overall didn’t blot out all the humor; characters like J. Lee’s Lt. Cmdr. John LaMarr and Scott Grimes’ Helmsman Gordon Malloy can always be counted on for random quips to lighten the mood. The show also found humor in some of its more surreal storylines, including “Mortality Paradox,” which saw several Orville crew members trapped in a simulation of an American high school. How else would we have gotten the chance to see Bortus informing a mean girl that she has “a five-head”?
