- Director
- Natalie Bailey
- Writers
- Peter Fellows, Ian Martin
- Rating
- TV-MA
- Running Time
- 28 minutes
- Airs
- Sundays 10pm
- Channel
- HBO, HBO Canada
Overall Score
Rating Summary
For our review of the last episode of Avenue 5, click here.
Synopsis: With Avenue 5 staff slacking in their customer service, Ryan offers Karen the opportunity to channel her unique talent for speaking the passengers’ language. Judd outlines the plan for a rescue mission and tasks Iris with organizing a vigil on Earth to raise the money to fund it. Rav endures a barrage of messages from the ship and handles an unruly press conference. (HBO)
It appears that things are getting even more out of control on Avenue 5 and it’s kind of not fun anymore.
I’m a Hand Model started with another Mia and Doug argument (they weren’t getting better anytime soon) but the focus quickly shifted to a towel that looked like an anus. Meanwhile. the ship staff stopped caring about the passengers and you can believe Karen was all over it. To try and get out of some of his responsibilities as captain while also getting rid of Karen, he appointed her to the position of passenger liaison. Though as they were drinking together, he would let his real British accent slip and also the fact that he wasn’t really a captain. She was comically not thrilled about it but accepted the position out of the greater good.
Things would obviously get worse with the news that a faulty calculation resulted in their trajectory taking 3.5 years instead of the optimistic 6 month estimate (though they could shave some time off by losing some extra weight). To fund any rescue mission, Judd had the idea to hold a vigil. Why not hire actors? While Karen was sneakily taking credit for the 3.5 years news, Rav (who got bombarded with funny distress videos) was having a harder time on Earth dealing with reporters.
The episode ended with an entertaining meltdown when discovering how fake his crew was (they were all actors) and the real people were behind the scenes (Judd wanted hot people).
Hugh Laurie’s Clark may keep it watchable but this series needs to get better soon.
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