Shout by Alexander von Limberg

The Orville: Season 3

3x08 Midnight Blue

It all looks so beautiful. Especially the approach to that sanctuary planet is awesome (in good ol'Star Trek fashion the non FX and non studio stuff looks of course like it's contemporary California and it probably is).

Another very solid episode. Sometimes funny, increasingly grim as it progresses. A concise story with a philosophical and political core and an exciting execution. Well done! It's perhaps a few minutes too long but that's also a sign of a great production: if they feel they need more time to tell a story - like this week - they produce a 90 minutes episode. One of the few shows that understands that there's a benefit to streaming and to the departure from programmed TV time slots.

PS: Kudos to Dolly Parton. She's a household name but it's perhaps the first time I've ever seen her acting. Is she playing that Tennessee girl or is that the real her? Her accent is adorable.

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@alexlimberg That is just Dolly Parton being Dolly Parton. Those clothes and that guitar are likely hers. Look her up, she is genuinely one of the kindest souls to have ever lived in our time (possibly any time). It's one thing to make a show that portrays a more enlightened humanity, another thing entirely to live as one, like Dolly Parton does - especially in current times.

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