steve-94389 It's a great mix of star trek with occasional Macfarlane comedy. Good story lines. The cretics don't know what there talking about. Good stuff

haldamere-92631 The first few episodes start out with more comedy but the cast, writers, producers and directors quickly found their mark and the show transformed into a show worthy to be a Stare Trek series with a feel somewhere between Star Trek iv and Star Trek the next generation. I highly recommend you give it a try and watch the first season.

Tony Khouri .....................Then episode 3 happened, with it's veiled attacks on the male gender,heterosexuality and putting those wonderful females on a pedestal whilst the men are portrayed as clueless dumb idiots (Yet again). It seems to me there is an agenda being forced onto the unsuspecting audience and judging by the reviews all over IMDB people are slowly waking up to this anti male, anti heterosexual feminisation bile that's being rammed down our throats. The show isn't funny, the plots just preach political correctness and the acting is just awful.There are better shows out there, Seth Macfarlane I thought you were better than this.

InCole I don't enjoy everything that Seth MacFarlane has worked on but he has really outdone himself on this one. The cheesy comedy fits right in and he doesn't overdo it. At the same time of the cheesy comedy the foundation of the show is written and directed like a proper Star Trek series.The feeling of mystery, the feeling of danger and feeling of joy is all in The Orville and in fact, while I enjoy Star Trek Discovery it somehow doesn't have that Star Trek feeling it is lacking something in the writing. But Orville has captured that feeling fully and feels no different from watching the original series, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, etc...In fact if I were to draw similarities I'd say it reminds me most of Deep Space Nine as some of the humour and jokes are similar and the way it is written the good guys are not blatantly good and instead everything becomes more shades of grey in some episodes.I am sad that the "professional" critics have slammed this show - but then again professional critics seem to have something against Seth MacFarlane they always slam things that he has worked on - maybe he has done something to personally insult them all once, I don't know. But there definitely is a grudge there.I just hope this show can continue as I really enjoy it and it brings back such fond memories of the days when we had Star Trek TV shows. As sadly while Discovery is enjoyable to watch it just doesn't feel like a Star Trek show.