The Orville

SYFY WIRE had the chance to speak with The Orville creator Seth MacFarlane and series writer David A. Goodman about how “Electric Sheep” came together and why ...

Part of the way “Electric Sheep” addresses the trauma people felt after the Battle of Earth was by introducing a new character, Ensign Charly Burke (Anne Winters). “We wanted to introduce a character who had experienced a real devastating loss,” Goodman explained. Part of the answer to that question is Charly’s open hatred toward Isaac, even though she is the one who ultimately helps bring him back to life. SYFY WIRE had the chance to speak with The Orville creator Seth MacFarlane and series writer David A. Goodman about how “Electric Sheep” came together and why they decided to revisit a certain plot from one of the previous season's most acclaimed episodes. And the two-parter was something that really was an experiment for us. We didn't know if people were going to go for it, if people were going to respond to something that serious from The Orville. And they loved it. The first episode of The Orville: New Horizons, “Electric Sheep,” packs a lot into its 70 minutes.

Meet the newest ensign on the ship in Seth MacFarlane's Hulu sci-fi series.

“Then I think that the strength that she has and shows the minute she gets on board the ship proves to him that she can be trusted with certain things,” Winters shares. If you pay close attention, you’ll kind of notice my hair is way curlier in certain scenes and then others, it looks like it’s been curled because the rest of the season, they had to hand curl every single piece of my hair going forward after we got back to the pandemic.” Charly gets to be there in the action quite a bit.” I’m excited for everyone to see her arc because she definitely goes through an entire high, low, and just has a really cool storyline, not only with Isaac, but just with her own journey of herself and realizing who she is and why maybe she’s been so closed off to this species or why she’s so judgmental right off the bat,” Winters teases. Whether or not the audience is gonna see that as a good or bad thing … I’m very curious to see the takeaway from this entire journey that I feel like I went on.” (Those two scenes, with Isaac then Ed, were the first that Winters filmed, making them her favorite.) She does, however, step up later, though she makes sure Isaac knows, “I didn’t do it for you.”

The sci-fi dramedy takes place in the 25th century and stars creator Seth MacFarlane as Mercer, an officer rising in the space ranks and who discovers his wife ...

You can watch The Orville: New Horizons online exclusively on Hulu, which costs $7 per month with ads or $13 monthly without ads. After decamping from Fox, The Orville: New Horizons premieres its third and final season online today on Hulu. His promising career is jeopardized after his divorce sends him spiraling into emotional turmoil, but things take a turn when he is chosen to lead a new exploration through the Planetary Union (an alliance among Earth and other planets). When his ex-wife, Commander Kelly Grayson (Adrianne Palicki), is assigned to serve as first officer, the former couple must reconcile and work together in running the ship.

With the launch of Season 3, The Orville wasted no time exploring dramatically intense topics. Seth MacFarlane, Penny Johnson Jerald react.

“As we went along, what we were finding was the same thing that the audience was finding, that what they were really responding to was the people. Surveying that heart-to-heart, Penny Johnson Jerald tells TVLine, “My takeaway from that is you really need someone to bounce off of in life. “There’s nothing you can’t write for Penny. She’s brilliant.” Afterward, Claire cued Isaac to acknowledge what he had done, but he kept reciting statistics about how his absence would not affect the crew’s efficiency. and Claire herself then breaking down as she used the same tech to revisit a past date with her onetime Kaylon suitor. Up until this point, Isaac as an artificial lifeform maintained that being the target of such hate bothered him not at all.

Meet the newest ensign on the ship in Seth MacFarlane's Hulu sci-fi series.

After the sale of Fox to Disney, the House of Mouse invested $50 million into Seth MacFarlane's The Orville: New Horizons.

Yet, now that they have their hands in the Mouse’s pockets, The Orville: New Horizons promises to be the best-looking season of the series yet. If the series was a streaming hit for Hulu, the new season makes perfect sense. The Orville: New Horizons is a perfect show for Hulu. MacFarlane’s brand of humor feels ‘too edgy’ for Disney+, and the series is quite good. Yet, it also gives the writers more options for storytelling. On a shoestring budget, MacFarlane and company was able to fight in Star Trek: Discovery’s weight class, a series that had about five times the budget. At the premiere for the new season on Hulu, MacFarlane told the audience that they “could watch $50 million worth of special effects on their phones while they defecate,” according to THR. The joke aside, if that figure is the entire show’s budget and not just special effects, it represents a huge investment on Disney’s part in this Trek-alike series.

A violent space battle with the Kaylons. Marcus runs through the corridors of The Orville, dodging explosions. In the turbolift, he is thrown around.

LaMarr reports they need to try to revive Isaac soon. They flee to a storm-ridden planet and hide in the atmosphere. Ed starts to get through to her when the ship is attacked by a Kaylon ship. They discuss suicide and how its perception is different on Dakeel. Irillia points out that the memory of others is deeply honored, and that he should keep her in his mind if she were to die first and she’ll always be with him. He wants to leave the ship if Isaac is staying. She likens it to how she’s unable to feel anything in the wake of Isaac’s death. Claire brings Isaac into the bedroom to talk to Marcus. They send Ty out. LaMarr directs a team on the ship’s hull to tear out a system for upgrade. While the Orville is being refitted, Kelly orders Gordon to take LaMarr out and get him wasted to make sure he takes a day off. Talla is unable to track the paint replicator and there was a DNA scrub to erase any evidence of who the culprit is. She tells him he should stay out of the mess hall because it makes people sick to look at him. Getting out, he runs back to the Finn family quarters to find Ty. They watch as a nearby UFP ship is destroyed.

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And if you appreciate the satire of The Orville, check out Galaxy Quest, a film based on the cast of a fictional TV series being transported to a real-life intergalactic battle. There’s also a bit of meta-humor, with a character at the end of the trailer seeming to comment on the show’s hiatus saying, “definitely worth the wait”. There’s also plenty of humor, including a fun Star Wars reference in the middle of the video. The fate of The Orville’s third season was difficult to determine for quite a while, with the COVID-19 pandemic halting production back in October 2019. After three years of waiting, the third season of Seth MacFarlane’s sci-fi comedy adventure The Orville is finally here. His wife also happens to be his second in command, Kelly Grayson ( Adrianne Palicki), and the two, along with a crew of both humans and aliens, navigate their personal relationships while also attempting to maintain their professional standing.

The Hulu sci-fi series returns with "Electric Sheep," an episode that puts Dr. Claire Finn through the emotional wringer.

“And I think when the mom element comes in, the mom teaches her that there’s always more to learn. But it was good to be on the set so that I could have an outlet somewhere. To film that was a wonderful thing to do, but at the same time, a little depressing because of what I was going through in my personal life. It was grief-stricken, but something that you have to go through. As fans of the show will remember, Isaac’s home planet—Kaylon 1—is populated by robots who believe all biological life forms to be inferior, a point of view that led to a full-on war between the Kaylons and, well, everyone else during The Orville’s second season. Considering that it comes from the mind of Seth MacFarlane, you’d expect sci-fi series The Orville to lean more into comedy than drama.