🎬Watching novelties: The Orville and Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
The Orville
Cast Seth MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson Jerald, Scott Grimes, Peter Macon.
Plot: 2417 year. Ed Mercer (Seth MacFarlane) offered to become the captain of the ship " The Orville". He has a motley team. They plow the expanses of the Universe and fall into various amusing situations.
These series supposed to be a parody of "Star Trek" and other fantastic TV series and films.
Available episodes: 2/12.
My opinion: If we look into the biography of Seth McFarlane, we'll see that he is the creator (scriptwriter, director, artist, etc.) of Family Guy. Therefore, I expected bursting jokes from the very first seconds of the series, but there is no any funny joke. I watched 2 episodes and laughed maybe a couple of times. However, it does not prevent me to enjoy the series, in which a lot of money is swelled up. The picture is amazing, the episodes are very easy to perceive. The most important thing is to relax the brain by watching The Orville.
Perhaps there are many funny moments, but only the fans of the series "Star Trek" will understand them. Unfortunately, I'm not that kind.
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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
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Cast: Holliday Grainger, Steve Buscemi, Richard Madden, Jack Reynor, Timothy Spall, Bryan Cranston, Essie Davis
Plot: Each episode will have a new story, inspired by the stories of Philip K. Dick. The first episode is based on the story "The Hood Maker", but people write in the comments that the similarity (of the story and the series) is very different.
Agent Ross (Richard Madden - Robb Stark from the Game of Thrones) is one of the best detectives. He lives in a world reminiscent of the thirties, but in fact, it is modern world. A few dozen years ago the meteor shower put all the equipment out of action. At the same time, many children with the gift of telepathy were born on Earth. They are opposed by ordinary people. Telepaths are forced to live in the ghetto. One of them - Honor (Holliday Grainger) helps Ross to find The Hood Maker.
Available episodes: 1/10
Opinion: I really liked the atmosphere of the first episode! This dirty green color of the picture, I would like to see "A Man in a High Castle" in that way. I like the world that was presented to us, I want to see the entire series and do not wait every week for a new episode. The ending and the discharge of history were tense into vanilla love and phrases like "You lied to me / No, I did not lie to you." The finale seemed blurry and incomprehensible because of this, but I hope the creators will return again to the first series to complete this line.
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