Season 1 – Avenue 5

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Locus P @Locus 3h What got us watching was the promise of an absurdist comedy with the setting of passengers stuck for years on a spaceship cruise. The problem was that nothing landed. No pun intended. Jokes are repeated ad nauseam, such as the "delay" in transmission. Not funny whatsoever. Felt like highschool students wrote the dialogue - all so forced, as if read off a cue. Dead boring to watch. The owner (Herman Judd) is like a pale version of the IT Crowd's Douglas Reynholm, with none of Reynholm's scene-stealing charisma. Sight gags are the only thing that worked. Rotating coffins in space. Gravity flip slamming passengers from one end of the ship to the other. But these too fell flat. What's sad is that what would have worked is if ALL the crew had been fakers picked by Judd because his eogotistical self was so sure the spaceship's auto was faultless. Not just the captain. Every character should be like Zach Wood - 100% wrong for their roles on the ship. Woods stood out far above the rest. See more Ed L @ed65love May 16 I love scifi, but prefer comedy. i.e. something funny. Oh, well, it held my attention for nearly 5 minutes. See more Brian M @Brian488307 Jul 2 We couldn't take it for very long. One episode killed it for us. We really like Hugh Laurie, he is a brilliant actor and loved himmin many things, including House. It attracted us to it, but he didn't seem to have the spark he displayed in his other work. He wasn't very convincing but we might have forgiven that, but for the story that tried too hard to be funny, and s cast of characters that we couldn't really connect to. It's a no from us. See more Joseph C @JoeC. 04/22/2025 "Avenue 5" premiered in February 2020, and initially, I found its characters annoying and unreasonable. The concept of incompetent people managing a disaster while the public either panicked or went into denial seemed far-fetched. However, by the end of the season, which coincided with the early days of March 2020, I was proven wrong. The show became unexpectedly prophetic, brilliantly capturing how self-involved and unprepared society had become in the face of a crisis, highlighting our struggles to approach disaster with any semblance of measured intelligence. See more mickeydeecat T @RT59149320 01/24/2025 I watched this when it first aired. The show is hilarious. Very panicked, whacky humor with ridiculous situations and characters. It had me sitting at the edge of my seat for most of it. It deserved a better send off. See more Emmanuel V @RT69545192 01/02/2025 I like the show enough even if the Karen character is close to ruining the enjoyment of it completely See more Read all reviews

Avenue 5 — Season 1

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