Genre: Comedy, Science fiction, Black comedy
Created by Armando Iannucci
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Josh Gad, Zach Woods, Rebecca Front, Suzy Nakamura, Lenora Crichlow, Nikki Amuka-Bird & Ethan Phillips.
Music by Adem Ilhan
Executive Producers: Kevin Loader, Will Smith, Tony Roche, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci
Producer: Steve Clark-Hall
Cinematography: Eben Bolter
Editors: Gary Dollner
Production Company: Dundee Productions
Distributor: HBO (US), Sky One (UK)
Plot: Captain Ryan Clark and his crew struggle to deal with their angry passengers as their eight-week space ship cruise becomes an eight-year odyssey.
Season 2 of Avenue 5 was bad.
Pros: My favourite thing about this season is seeing everyone’s reaction to the anarchy that was going onboard the ship and the humour got a little bit better in the last three episodes of this season.
Cons: Most of the comedy was not all that funny. I didn’t understand many of the choices that the crew made to solve these situations and I didn’t interact with much of the drama at all.
Casts & characters:
Main:
- Hugh Laurie as Ryan Clark, the captain of Avenue 5.
- Josh Gad as Herman Judd, billionaire owner of Avenue 5.
- Zach Woods as Matt Spencer, Head of Customer Relations for Avenue 5.
- Rebecca Front as Karen Kelly, a passenger aboard Avenue 5.
- Suzy Nakamura as Iris Kimura, an associate owner of Avenue 5.
- Lenora Crichlow as Billie McEvoy, second engineer on Avenue 5.
- Nikki Amuka-Bird as Rav Mulcair, head of mission control for Avenue 5 back on Earth.
- Ethan Phillips as Spike Martin, a former astronaut and first (or fifth) Canadian on Mars, who is now a womanizing alcoholic on Avenue 5.
Recurring:
- Himesh Patel as Jordan Hatwal, a stand-up comedian who takes up an eight-week residency on Avenue 5.
- Jessica St. Clair as Mia, a passenger and Doug’s wife.
- Kyle Bornheimer as Doug, a passenger and Mia’s husband.
- Andy Buckley as Frank, a passenger and Karen’s husband.
- Matthew Beard as Alan Lewis, Rav’s assistant on Earth.
- Daisy May Cooper as Bridge crew; Zarah (season 2), Sarah’s twin sister and an actress on Earth.
- Adam Pålsson as Mads, bridge crew.
- Julie Dray as Nadia, bridge crew.
- Neil Casey as Cyrus, an engineer.
- Lucy Punch as Dawn Djopi, a talk-show host (season 2).
- Justin Edwards as Nathan Basic, the cannibal
I do recommend watching all two seasons of this show and hoping you might find it great instead of me.
Rating: 3 out of 10 Stars
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