The Orville
Reviews of The Orville will be written as the series airs, if my schedule allows. Before each review is available, comments on each episode will be open immediately after the episode airs. Please note that all reviews contain spoilers.
Season 1 (2017)
- 9/10/2017. Old Wounds
— Following the collapse of his marriage, Ed Mercer is named captain of the USS Orville, an exploratory vessel whose first mission is to answer the call of a science team that has invented a device that can accelerate time. - 9/17/2017. Command Performance — When Mercer and Grayson vanish unexpectedly without a trace, the inexperienced Lt. Alara Kitan finds her resolve tested as she faces her first command experience.
- 9/21/2017. About a Girl — When Bortus' child is unexpectedly born female — something considered abnormal among his people — he asks Dr. Finn to surgically change the baby's gender, prompting a controversy among his shipmates.
- 9/28/2017. If the Stars Should Appear — The Orville encounters a massive starship adrift in space that is actually an alien bio-dome housing an entire civilization that does not know the true nature of its world.
- 10/5/2017. Pria — After the crew rescues a woman from a crashed mining ship, Mercer begins to fall for her while Grayson suspects she is not who she says she is.
- 10/12/2017. Krill — Following an unprovoked attack on a Union colony by a Krill vessel, Mercer and Malloy go undercover to infiltrate a Krill ship in the hopes of learning more about the mysterious enemy.
- 10/26/2017. Majority Rule — The Orville crew investigates the disappearance of two Union anthropologists who vanished on a world governed solely by popular opinion.
- 11/2/2017. Into the Fold — When a shuttle carrying Finn, her two young sons, and Isaac crashes on an unfamiliar planet, Finn must escape her alien captors while Isaac looks after the children.
- 11/9/2017. Cupid's Dagger — While mediating a dispute between two warring societies, the Orville takes aboard a specialist who turns out to be the man at the center of the affair that ended Mercer's and Grayson's marriage.
- 11/16/2017. Firestorm — While struggling with guilt over the death of a crewmate she was unable to save, Kitan begins experiencing strange events aboard the ship that are not easily explained.
- 11/30/2017. New Dimensions — Grayson discovers LaMarr has hidden potential that might make him a candidate to replace the departing chief engineer, so she gives him a challenging assignment when the Orville discovers a realm that exists only in two dimensions.
- 12/7/2017. Mad Idolatry — A seemingly small action has massive consequences when Grayson heals a wonded girl on a primitive planet, which leads the society to establish an entire religion around Kelly.