Oh yeah!  Also love the episode where he goes back home to New York and his friend plays the theme song to the Sopranos and he's just complaining all the way.

Plus Tony Sirico as his other brother.

Lillyhammer wasn’t truly a Netflix series until it was cancelled in 2015, two years before they cancelled House Of Cards.

Interesting and yes, quite the opposite. I have no problem with McFarlane in general, been watching him for years but I never lose sight of him acting exactly as himself in this program. His speech, phrasing and mannerisms all smack of this guy in our reality, not some future world. I don’t think anyone mentions him…

It’s sad how Cowboy Bebop, a very entertaining if flawed series, has been so unfairly panned. It deserves another season 

I thought it was a legitimately charming show that did a lot with the premise of what if Silvio fled to Norway.  Was great when Bruce Springsteen showed up as a hitman/ priest brother of Van Zandt.  

Seth has done a very good job of making the show a true ensemble, he is very willing to be the lead without having to dominate the screen.

I haven’t seen as much of the new shows, but in the TNG era, I feel like it was always implied that the Enterprise could overpower anything except a Borg cube. Even the Romulan warbirds, which were way bigger and could cloak, never felt like a serious threat individually. Whenever they needed them, the Klingons, or…

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I think Picard has the issue in that it’s trying to be TNG/Voyager using the post NuBSG! themes most modern space fantasy shows have picked up. It honestly doesn’t work for me.

I agree, to the extent that I think Discovery should be called Star Trek: Burnham, and Picard should be called Star Trek: Fanfic, which whaddayaknow is pretty much what The Orville is.

Maybe the magnetized rails were suddenly disabled?

True but Star Trek has always balanced its characters equally and ended with a message of optimism and hope. Discovery tries to do the latter but at the expense of the former. Everything hinges directly and solely on Burnham and of the other crew members who’s names I can actually remember, I find range from either…

The first half of season 1 was definitely more McFarlane humor than Star Trek but by Season 2, I felt he struck a good balance between a faithful homage to TNG with some conservatively injected humor throughout. I hope this new season/iteration managed to continue that balance.

I don’t disagree with you, but we know why that is. Star Trek has always tried to give each series a different vibe. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not.

Always seen Orville as having more of a Voyager vibe, but that android with teeth better be a dream sequence or this has gone full Lexx mode.

I hated the sophomoric humour of the first season, but loved the groove of legit sci-fi and character drama that “Orville” settled in to. I’m totally here for season 3. :D

Man that score is really dancing across the line between “loving John Williams homage” and “legally actionable plagiarism.”

I kinda wish this show would have stuck to being the silly fart joke Star Trek.  I feel like the tone is just way to all over the place and it makes it hard for me to invest in.    But then again,  in a few weeks I am prepared to be utterly disappointed in Season 2 of Picard so maybe this will at least be a better…

It’s such a bonkers world where we have multiple new Star Trek shows and yet a Seth MacFarlane show is the only one that actually feels like Star Trek.