I Was Flying
- Episode aired Jan 19, 2020
- TV-MA
- 29m
Space captain Ryan Clark of the Avenue 5 tries to get along with others in the space tourism industry.Space captain Ryan Clark of the Avenue 5 tries to get along with others in the space tourism industry.Space captain Ryan Clark of the Avenue 5 tries to get along with others in the space tourism industry.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaZach Woods and Andy Buckley both starred in The Office
- GoofsBlood doesn't spurt unless the heart is still beating. If somebody was stabbed through the heart and then frozen in space firstly the blood would lose all the pressure keeping it moving and stop moving through the arteries and veins, and secondly it would expand and burst some of those veins. So when the blood thawed it would just leak internally, especially if the wound is facing upwards.
- Quotes
Ryan Clark: I think I've just swallowed a tooth. I don't think it's one of my teeth.
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Cul De Sac
I'm loath, with a comedy, to write it all off after one episode. I have done previously, but it has to be really awful. This first episode isn't that but I'm not sure I'd say I enjoyed it, and there were certainly a lot of elements that I didn't enjoy.
Avenue 5 is a pleasure cruiser that circumnavigates the solar system using gravitational fields to plot its course. Unfortunately, an accident with the gravity pushes the ship 2.5 degrees off course and extends what should be an 8 week cruise into a 3 year odyssey. It soon becomes apparent that the ship's captain Ryan Clark (Hugh Laurie) is a barely competent figurehead but that the capable lead engineer was killed in the accident.
First episodes of comedies are on a bit of a hiding to nothing, I think. Aside from the act of trying to be funny, they have to introduce the premise of the show and all the characters that you're going to live with, so I'm prepared to accept that this particular episode didn't amuse me very much. What's somewhat harder to take is that I'm not sure where the laughs are going to come from. I actively don't like an awful lot of these characters already (and not in a Jean Ralphio 'supposed to' type way). Josh Gad's uber-rich ship owner, the divorcing couple, even Rebecca Front's bossy housewife all rubbed me the wrong way (and I love Rebecca Front). I feel like I've seen "the Joke" of the characters already and I didn't like it. There are other aspects though, Lenora Crichlow's engineer seems fine and there's something in Captain Clark that liked too. Zack Woods I thought I was enjoying, as he played against type as a confident Passenger Liaison, but then in later seems he seemed to have a personality transplant into a blubbering idiot in the later scenes.
I'm not prepared to give up yet, but it'll have to get a lot better pretty quickly for me to see it out.
Avenue 5 is a pleasure cruiser that circumnavigates the solar system using gravitational fields to plot its course. Unfortunately, an accident with the gravity pushes the ship 2.5 degrees off course and extends what should be an 8 week cruise into a 3 year odyssey. It soon becomes apparent that the ship's captain Ryan Clark (Hugh Laurie) is a barely competent figurehead but that the capable lead engineer was killed in the accident.
First episodes of comedies are on a bit of a hiding to nothing, I think. Aside from the act of trying to be funny, they have to introduce the premise of the show and all the characters that you're going to live with, so I'm prepared to accept that this particular episode didn't amuse me very much. What's somewhat harder to take is that I'm not sure where the laughs are going to come from. I actively don't like an awful lot of these characters already (and not in a Jean Ralphio 'supposed to' type way). Josh Gad's uber-rich ship owner, the divorcing couple, even Rebecca Front's bossy housewife all rubbed me the wrong way (and I love Rebecca Front). I feel like I've seen "the Joke" of the characters already and I didn't like it. There are other aspects though, Lenora Crichlow's engineer seems fine and there's something in Captain Clark that liked too. Zack Woods I thought I was enjoying, as he played against type as a confident Passenger Liaison, but then in later seems he seemed to have a personality transplant into a blubbering idiot in the later scenes.
I'm not prepared to give up yet, but it'll have to get a lot better pretty quickly for me to see it out.
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- southdavid
- Jan 24, 2020
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- Runtime29 minutes
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- 16:9 HD
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