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    Make It So-So: Fox's 'The Orville'

    Unable to fix on a tone, the series "is trying so hard not to be so many things, it isn't fully any one thing," says critic Eric Deggans, who calls it "the strangest misfire of the fall TV season."
    by Eric Deggans Sep 10, 2017 4 minutes
    Where No One Has Gone Before, For Good Reason: (L-R): Penny Johnson Jerald, Mark Jackson, Seth MacFarlane, Peter Macon, Scott Grimes, Adrianne Palicki, J. Lee and Halston Sage star in The Orville. / FOX / Getty Images

    What, exactly, is The Orville supposed to be?

    Is it, as some promotional ads on Fox suggest, an in-your-face satire of classic Star Trek-style science fiction shows – with trash-talking starship officers and a gelatinous blob of a life-form played by Norm MacDonald – crafted by the guy who created Family Guy and Ted?

    Or is it an earnest, often unfunny homage to '90s-era Trek shows like The Next and , complete with stories about starship crewmembers abducted for an intergalactic zoo and members of a mostly-male species who demand the right to give their infant daughter a sex change?

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