![]() ![]() Season 2, it’s all about the dynamic inside the ship, now. I suppose in season 1, there were lots of things happening outside the ship. Iannucci: It’s Dante’s Inferno in space that’s what it is. Is the goal this season to see how many fiery levels of hell you could throw everyone through in order to see if people can overcome conflict, come together as a team and make it out alive? Well, wait, you’re not just off course, but now everyone is heading towards the sun. ![]() Going into these new episodes, it was tough to figure just how things could get worse for the Avenue 5 crew and its passengers. I hope people will find it a bit cheering even though they’re watching the disintegration of everything they hold dear. Even though the predicament we’re in is getting steadily worse, the fact that human society can cling on and function, even if it’s in a pretty ragged fashion, I think that she gives me hope. Wait, we’re still talking about the show, right? Hugh Laurie: I think in a funny way, though, that it’s actually got more optimism in, as much as, we haven’t died yet. Does that comparison still track?Īrmando Iannucci: I think Lord of the Flies is closer now, given what we’ve all been through. Rotten Tomatoes spoke with Hugh Laurie and Armando Iannucci ahead of the season’s premiere to dig into the changed dynamic of the new episodes, the struggle to maintain a leadership team amid all the space chaos, and if more seasons are in the cards.Īaron Pruner for Rotten Tomatoes: Armando, during the season 1 press tour for Avenue 5 way back in 2019 when the world was different, you compared the show to Fyre Festival in space. The stakes are raised considerably this time around, with threats ranging from driving everyone straight into the fiery sun, to being potentially murdered by a gang of space criminals only cracking the tip of the iceberg. Rounding out the crew are Josh Gad’s narcissistic billionaire Herman Judd, Jach Woods’ unhinged spiritual head of customer relations Matt Spencer, Judd’s head of mission control Rav Mulcair (Nikki Amuka-Bird), second engineer Billie McAvoy (played by Lenora Crichlow), Judd’s right-hand woman Iris Kimura (Suzy Nakamura), and Ethan Phillips’ space enthusiast, and former astronaut, Spike Martin. This voyage really needs competence at the helm, though as the season 1 finale revealed, the ship is off course and will be stuck up there for about eight years - a small detail known only to the captain and his crew. Hugh Laurie leads the cast as Captain Ryan, who isn’t a captain at all, but actually an actor hired to exude an air of knowledge and gravitas (though the actor playing captain really has no leadership qualities). Created by Veep’s Armando Iannucci, the future-leaning sci-fi satire posits the notion that in just 40 years, hopping on a luxury cruise ship in space will totally be a thing.īut what happens when the 5,000 people on board find themselves stranded? And how will the crew handle the emergency situation to get everyone home safely? These are two of the main questions guiding the series that finds the space cruise’s dysfunctional leadership team ineptly doing their best to fix every problem that arises, while trying not to tear each other apart in the process. I think Space Force just shows that there's a giant disconnect between critics and audience.After a two-year wait, HBO’s Avenue 5 is back with season 2, and, in case you’re wondering, the situation on the commercial space flight is still as precarious as ever. RUN is quite tragic only rated 49% by audience, but it remains HBO's biggest Emmy push, and it currently still is considered to have better odds than all these other series for a nomination. So it's impressive that even with the increased traffic, Space Force is still scoring quite high with the general public. Space Force outperforms everything else as far as voting counts go as well, now tallying 1265 votes, which is 951 more votes than Avenue 5 at second place with 314 votes. ![]() The critical reception to Space Force is honestly quite baffling to me, especially when you start comparing it to other first year comedies by big distributors.īased on RT critics score, it ranks as follows: The Great (86%) > RUN (82%) > DAVE (71%) > Avenue 5 (66%) > Space Force (41%)īut based on RT audience score, it ranks as follows: DAVE (91%) > The Great (84%) > Space Force (77%) > Avenue 5 (51%) > RUN (49%) ![]()
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