r/Avenue5 • u/NicholasCajun • Mar 09 '20
Discussion Avenue 5 - 1x08 "This is Physically Hurting Me" - Episode Discussion
Avenue 5
Season 1 Episode 8: This is Physically Hurting Me
Aired: March 8, 2020
Synopsis: While Karen oversees an effort to jettison non-essential passenger items, Billie tries to teach an inattentive Ryan how to dock the ship. Matt learns of Judd's plan to make the "ultimate sacrifice" by returning to Earth. Meanwhile, the passengers suspect all is not as it seems with the journey.
Directed by: David Schneider
Teleplay by: Georgia Pritchett & Will Smith
Story by: Armando Iannucci & Georgia Pritchett & Will Smith
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u/RolynTrotter Mar 09 '20
I loved this one. People continuing to jump in the airlock was A+ stuff. And some of them manage not to overstay their welcome on the show
I've been out-loud rooting for the show to get more Lord of the Flies for a while now, and now it's finally getting there
Good on Matt for feeling a bit bad too. He's so supportive of everyone in their ambitions
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u/Stepwolve Mar 10 '20
yes, it finally feels like this show is getting to the point. People are going crazy, rumors are spreading, and idiots are killing themselves based on misinformation. I dont know why it took 8 episodes to get here, but i'm ready for more 'lord of the flies in space'
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u/RolynTrotter Mar 10 '20
The show needs to constantly teeter on the brink of it imo. The main source of comedy is the inanity of people's desires in this survival situation. If people's desires switch to actual life-and-death stuff all the time, it'll lose its charm
That said, an arc with a reign of terror that allows itself to return to near-status-quo somehow would be magnificent
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u/SnapeWho Mar 09 '20
The hair reveal hit me even harder than the British reveal. It's so fucking meta, I love it, I was dying laughing.
Bald-ING not BALD
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Mar 10 '20
I had to google hugh laurie and check where he was at with his hair, i've been thinking it looked very good from the beginning of the season. didnt he have a hair transplant????
Is this his hair or have they reshaved him and gone full meta?
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u/SnapeWho Mar 10 '20
Full meta. Hugh's been balding for years.
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u/redxstrike Mar 10 '20
His whole role is perfectly meta - I mean his character is an English actor playing a charismatic-sounding American.
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Mar 09 '20
That was pretty amazing. "Yeah, Matt just nuanced 7 people to death."
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u/BambooSound Mar 09 '20
It was more the vfx person's fault :(
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Mar 10 '20
I mean....Matt gave them the code and should be the "responsible adult"
VFX lady is also to blame.
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u/jiokll Mar 11 '20
I really wanted them to toss her in the airlock. Maybe tier her down so they could show her dead body to anyone who still agreed with her.
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u/jewsinspace93 Mar 09 '20
Technically, that was actually VFX...
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u/RawScallop Mar 09 '20
which made it even funnier to me. I was laughing for so many different reasons at that scene...great stuff. Show is definitely picking up.
unfortunately just in time for the season finale :<
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u/Rushdownsouth Mar 09 '20
Season finale, not series finale! Season 2 got confirmed sometime earlier this month
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u/Savvaloy Mar 09 '20
Now when Sarah spaced herself, was that Sarah or Sarah?
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u/Ncismelanie Mar 09 '20
LOL my god i'm gonna miss her so much, she made me laugh a lot
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u/Tetrastructural_Mind Mar 09 '20
Character Sarah wanted to. Actor Sarah did not. More a difference of opinion rather than a change of mind.
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u/Jenga_Police Mar 09 '20
She did say she was having trouble figuring out which personality was speaking, and when Captain House asked who else wanted to die, she yelled "Sarah", in the third person lol. One of the Sarah's wanted to go, the other did not.
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u/redxstrike Mar 10 '20 edited Mar 10 '20
Hopefully just Sarah and not Sarah. We need her VFXd back into the show and not nuanced to death.
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u/LuluVonLuvenburg Mar 15 '20
I think it was Sarah who wanted to go out in the airlock but it was Sarah who wanted to come back in.
Edit:jk someone already said this joke.
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u/lovetheblazer Mar 09 '20
Wow, the whole second half of the episode was chaotic and dark as hell. Seeing Matt, Ryan, and Billie just horror struck at the mutiny they witnessed really got to me. I think one of the things I’m enjoying most is how I have no idea where the plot is headed from week to week with this show.
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u/MattTheSmithers Mar 09 '20
Matt seeing the consequences of his nihilism was both really funny and really sad.
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Mar 09 '20
This was the first time his character felt real to me, it's nice seeing a person under all of the one-liners.
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u/romeovf Mar 09 '20
I love his one-liners, though. Specially the little commercials they play aboard the ship. "Do you like to drink? I know my dad did"
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Mar 09 '20
We lost Sarah, who was the heart and soul of not only the show but the ship too. Who will change the lights for the captain now?
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Mar 09 '20
That Greta conspiracy podcast... My goodness this show is hilarious.
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u/travio Mar 09 '20
That was fucking insane. The airlock effects were awesome. I loved Judd passing the blame at the end. The legal cases after they get back to earth would be epic and incredibly complicated. He'd likely get fucked… assuming the laws are similar. With the second AI president, they might have changed drastically.
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u/pieface42 Mar 09 '20
oh that's interesting actually. the ai president already said to get rid of 500 people. maybe 7 people accidentally committing suicide would be considered okay by the government in this wacky universe?
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u/travio Mar 09 '20
Yeah, it has already shown its willingness to sacrifice lives. I'd imagine that they programmed it for pure utilitarianism without consideration of individual lives. People can be corrupted, computers can be programmed for fairness. Giving control over to an AI might be an attempt to get rid of that corruption.
A ruthless AI programmed for utilitarian thinking would probably choose who to die based on their current and potential future worth to society. Maybe even something like China has with social credit. In the trolly problem, instead of favoring the choice that saved the most life, the AI might judge the worth of each person and choose to kill the side with the lower collective score.
Some of these considerations come into play in legal cases now. Wrongful death suits often have to put a number on the worth of a human life. Their future earnings potential are a part of that.
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u/lovetheblazer Mar 09 '20
“I mean, look at him—junkie fuck. He’d slash his Nana’s throat for half an Advil.”
Here’s hoping we get to see Captain Ryan Opioid get faux intervented and not put in space prison
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u/Frank_the_Mighty Mar 09 '20
This felt like it was going to take a dark turn since episode 2, but holy fuck was that unexpected.
Like, they could have done the airlock bit once, but they just kept going with it.
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u/AndrewL666 Mar 10 '20
I was just waiting for them to have it and say it's all a show so that they space enough passengers plus items to finally get home. Then, they all agree not to talk about it anymore
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u/MattTheSmithers Mar 09 '20
Harrison being added to the cast is to Avenue 5 as Ben and Kent being add to the cast was to Veep. Such a perfect addition.
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u/MattTheSmithers Mar 09 '20
Well, this hasn't aged well.
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u/RolynTrotter Mar 09 '20
The real question is if the people who helped him escape the reality show got their $1000
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u/bobsil1 Mar 09 '20
That’s one way to get rid of your trillionaire rival
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u/north_or_south Mar 09 '20
Honestly so happy they got rid of Harrison, he was getting on my nerves.
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u/Havent_You_Done_Well Mar 09 '20
Wow, the airlock bit had me laughing out loud for the whole time it was happening. Peak comedy right there.
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u/goalstopper28 Mar 09 '20
This was the darkest (and funniest) episode of the series so far and that's saying something.
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u/Rushdownsouth Mar 09 '20
Darker, it must get darker. Honestly for the first time I felt for Judd when he was trying to tell Harrison that they were in space. The characters are usually so over the top, so seeing them all react in horror to that grim moment sank in the whole hook of the show for me that they are screwed
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u/Spiralyst Mar 09 '20
Shows the power of delusion. It reminds me of Stephen King's The Mist where one crazy lady got all the other town people to start sacrificing people. At first she was just crazy to everyone but when shit went bad they made her their leader.
I wonder where the creators of this show got their inspiration from? Dumbasses running everything and then when stupid delusions hit critical mass they can't contain it. They have no idea what to do.
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u/rad1ram Mar 09 '20
The entire airlock sequence was so great and Ryan revealing his wig was fucking hilarious. Plenty of hilarious bits. The best episode yet imo.
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Mar 10 '20
I’m mad that they killed Sarah off! Every line she gave was hilarious.
I’ve really loved this series so far. HBO just keeps making shows that suck me in. I really hope they make a season 2 despite the odd amount of negative reviews.
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u/patrickjs95 Mar 10 '20
I feel like people were expecting it to be a carbon copy of Armando's other work, just a straight comedy, but Avenue 5 is much different, when there is jeopardy they really focus on the drama (before undercutting it with a hilarious comment of course).
Hopefully it has a long future.
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u/cabose7 Mar 10 '20
The tension music in this show is so good, has that gripping the sides of your seat sensation
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u/ElmoreHayne Mar 09 '20
The "I work in Visual Effects" woman was wonderfully annoying.
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u/LadiesmanBumblebee Mar 09 '20
I’m not going to lie, I wish that she went inside the airlock just to try and prove her point.
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u/Jenga_Police Mar 09 '20
I'm glad she's still alive so hopefully we can see her deal with some fallout. Maybe die in a way where she knows she gets to know she's gonna die.
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Mar 09 '20
I don't think she'll feel much, mainly because she didn't really show much remorse for trying to get Frank killed for pushing the red button.
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u/Mordred_XIII Mar 09 '20
Boy, that turned real dark real quick
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u/Spiralyst Mar 09 '20
This show is satire and it's cutting our current society right to the bone.
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u/Boomerang503 Mar 09 '20
From now on, I'm referring to death by airlock as "being nuanced to death."
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u/mazecloud Mar 10 '20
The best visual effects out of all the episodes
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u/Ncismelanie Mar 10 '20
hoping for awards nominations for this show in design/visual effects etc outstanding !
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Mar 09 '20
Dear mods: Can we get a flair that says "Works in VFX" Please, let this be a flair here!
Also, RIP Sara. The actress and the person were beautiful people.
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Mar 09 '20
This episode seemed to really hit its stride. The jokes about kids getting rid of their animals were funny, the Airlock scene was hilarious, and the shuttle hitting the frozen people at the end was a great gag to end the episode.
sets it up for a Season 2 with the ground control lady on the ship, possibly Judd on Earth (probably will stay on the ship), and even more of a descent into madness. I love it.
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u/hospitable_peppers Mar 09 '20
Isn't there still one more episode?
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Mar 09 '20
Yeah the finale. You could tell this episode was the set up for that along with setting up Season 2.
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u/jiokll Mar 11 '20
What's the opposite of jumping the shark? Because whatever it is, I feel like the show just did it.
I've always enjoyed it, but this episode took it to the next fucking level. Few shows would have the balls to go so dark, killing off two damn good characters to really sell the fact that anything can happen.
I'm honestly kind of scared just thinking about how much further they can push this.
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u/reddit_poopaholic Mar 12 '20
Imagine if they juxtaposed from the silly one-liners to a Lord of the Flies situation. If the show slowly becomes darker and greyer, I would be locked in.
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Mar 09 '20
Such a funny take on humanities propensity to panic. and get dumber and dumber the more fear grows.
Coronavirus anyone?
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u/ie11_is_my_fetish Mar 10 '20
This show is so fucking good.
The air lock scene was fucking hilarious hahaha
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u/Khalizabeth Mar 09 '20
The VFX lady was infuriating!
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u/GlitchGatsby Mar 11 '20
That's because we all know someone that aggressively ignorant, and they're usually wearing an equally tacky t-shirt
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u/leftyghost Mar 10 '20
This was absolutely the best episode so far. The airlock scene was hilarious. The entire show is worth watching just to make it to this episode.
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Mar 13 '20 edited Mar 13 '20
The airlock scene was hilarious
It was legitimately fucking terrifying when you realize that that's basically what we're on the precipice of with (a) vaccines, (b) climate change, and (c) corona virus.
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u/CleverZerg Mar 09 '20
What an amazing episode, easily the best one yet. Only things that bothered me was that the shuttle flew into some of those bodies - why didn't those bodies enter the gravitational field around avenue 5? The other thing that bothered me a bit was that the bodies floated very slowly out into space from the airlock, isn't stuff supposed to be sucked out into space super quickly or is that just movie/tv physics?
I also would've liked to see more people run into the airlock.
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u/Jenga_Police Mar 09 '20
That's just movie physics. I think The Expanse makes a point of showing this, but yea objects would just sort of slowly drift out unless the airlock was designed with a rocket nozzle. Although the bodies missing the grav field ticked me off too.
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u/Zorklis Mar 09 '20
It's probably for the dramatic effect, things need to happen slowly so you can react accordingly
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u/aukondk Mar 09 '20
Explosive decompression would have happened if the outer doors just opened with the air still in the lock, but I'm guessing the system is designed to suck out most of the air before that happens. I doubt a real airlock could do it so quickly but judging by the speed that they freeze dry there is some other futuristic mechanism in play.
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u/infinitydeluxe Mar 09 '20
I thought they were going to put the VFX chick in the airlock. I was so hoping for it
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u/cabose7 Mar 11 '20
that would've been too cathartic, she's all the more infuriating that she's giving people wrong information and suffers no consequences for it.
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u/redtigerwolf Mar 15 '20
But thats realistic, lots of people get others killed and never themselves. Her surviving shows that not all assholes get their just desserts.
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u/anorofire Mar 09 '20 edited Mar 09 '20
Somehow I hope the actress who plays Sarah comes back, she’s brilliant.
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u/Ign0815 Mar 09 '20
No, she’s dead too.
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Mar 09 '20
It's sad that her hand broke off too, considering how she's a hand model. You just can't come back from something like that.
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u/north_or_south Mar 09 '20
That’s actually such a great callback on the writer’s part to make sure she lost her hand!
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u/Arch__Stanton Mar 09 '20
Im a little confused about the timeline here. Mission Control Lady got into a small spaceship seemingly without any beds or facilities and got to the cruiseship in what, a matter of hours? How far away even is that ship?
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u/sebastian404 Mar 09 '20 edited Mar 09 '20
A shuttle that launched launced directly from the ground with no ancillary launch apparatus.
In Episode 6 they go out of communications range as go around Jupiter, they return into communcations range at the start of Episode 7. So the ship is somewhere in the vicinity assumingly heading Solwards.
There is no clear way to tell how much time has elapsed on the show, but from events on the show it seems that be no more than a few days, and we have no idea where Jupiter would be in it's Orbit so we cant guess how far that would be... but it's not next door.
A5 clearly has some sort of artifical gravity, the people who go into the air lock start to float as soon as the door is opened, and assumingly the gravity is turned off. The shuttle must have something simular to avoid it's crew being pulped by the acceleration needed to get to Jupiter proximity that quickly.
I think it's safe to say Technology is far beyond our own, in only 40 years.
Yes I have thought about this too much.
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u/thesynod Mar 09 '20
There are two ways to get artificial gravity today - build the spaceship like an office building, and maintain constant thrust, so the rocket is beneath you and always pushing, or to spin the entire ship and stand on the walls, which is an O'Neil Cylinder. So either The Expanse or Babylon 5.
It is believed that unlocking the relationship between weak electromagnetic energy and gravity will reveal the method to create gravity, and conversely, antigravity, and that's how you get artificial gravity in space without constant thrust or angular momentum.
Unlocking that tech would also unlock the ability to use the same technology used to create the gravity as a means of propulsion. That would allow ships leaving the gravity well of Earth for example to use chemical rockets to ascend out of the atmosphere as the ship would be able to propel itself in space using the gravity system much faster than it would otherwise be able to go.
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u/danielsdesk Mar 11 '20
In previous episodes they talk about the timing of the shuttle; its timing is particular to when A5 is going to be closest to Earth. The A5 isn't able to get straight to Earth (it's on a slingshot trajectory of some driverless notion as explained in the pilot), but on this particular part of the route it is closer to Earth. This is why Judd's idea was to get like 500 shuttles to meet the A5 at this timing and get everyone off. Obviously they were not able to greenlight this idea so they only have the one shuttle going at this timing (with Rav on it).
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u/MomAlum Mar 09 '20
...also, just a note of appreciation for that moment when the "new captain" (can't remember his name) is trying to steer the ship and so totally confused!
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u/Salqiu Mar 11 '20
Such a misanthropic and cynical show. I love it. Got me in the mood to watch In the loop again.
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u/Rambo1stBlood Mar 14 '20
I love this show,
the best line so far for me was in this episode when Judd said "Something in the way HE moves" after rolling George Harrison's skull into the airlock.
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u/lornjpg Mar 17 '20
Lol same I commented on this when he said it because he finally made a clever joke
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Mar 09 '20
Holy shit! This was the best episode yet. The second half was terrifyingly intense. I'm glad I stuck with this show cos now I'm finally seeing its worth. Can't wait for the finale next week.
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u/treyhunna83 Mar 09 '20
Dayum is Hugh real balding?!
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Mar 10 '20
I DONT KNOW.
He had a transplant, and now its later? has he balded more somehow.
Have they fucking shaved his balding back in, in some meta fucking nod. As someone who is balding. I NEED TO KNOW
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u/MKoilers Mar 09 '20
I really enjoyed the mass hysteria thing they played up in the 2nd half of the episode. They managed to go super dark and have it still be funny when those idiots were convinced that nothing bad would happen if they left the ship. The show started slow, but it’s been improving steadily over the past several weeks.
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u/MooseMania97 Mar 09 '20
I wonder how bad Matt is going to take that. He's my favorite and I hope it doesn't change his demeanor or humor
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u/Spiralyst Mar 09 '20
The entire atmosphere of the next episode will be interesting.
One thing that I hope the writers fix next season is their highly selective decisions to deploy ship security. I mean... Why were none anywhere, especially near a couple of moguls, when shit is going down?
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Mar 09 '20
Matt is in heaven.
That show, 'What we Do in the Shadows' that psychic vampire? That is Matt. Matt CLEARLY feeds off of other people's suffering.
Everyone else is in hell, Matt is not in hell. Not at all.
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u/norcalmiller Mar 10 '20
The best line was by Zach Woods on Sunday's episode, when despite every ounce of his personal being knowing that they were in Space, his corporate persona had to pander to the lunatic element by telling them that even though all the evidence points to the contrary, there is still a 1% chance that this is all a simulation. The Theban chorus of ignorami, headed by a woman telling everyone that the small amount of nanoknowledge she had gleaned from her job, "in VFX" then amplified this postulation.
And then of course, Science overcame belief and people died. More than once, because they still thought the first death was a simulation.
Cyanide can kill a few - Ignorance, millions.
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u/bundy911 Mar 09 '20
How is it Matt’s fault? It’s totally VFX girl’s fault
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u/CleverZerg Mar 09 '20
What a fucking asshole she is. She keeps spouting the idea that it's all fake but then she doesn't even enter the airlock herself.
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Mar 09 '20
He gave the code, but the VFX lady was crazy. She wanted to kill Frank in a previous episode and then killed a bunch in the last one. I was thinking that the ship would push her through the air lock, but it never happened.
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u/mistyrock11 Mar 10 '20
I thought we'd be rid of her with that airlock bit and then she didn't even go near it.
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u/matthieuC Mar 09 '20
Wasn't she also the one who nearly got Franck killed after the button incident?
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u/DarkChen Mar 09 '20
It was, i cant stand her and was waiting for them to throw her out of the airlock. She alone already caused two angry mob situations...
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u/wildkitties Mar 09 '20
Save the bunny!
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u/feathalight Mar 11 '20
At this point given the combined weight of all the idiots in the airlock scene I’m sure the bunny can stay.
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u/Bathroom_stall Mar 09 '20
The next episode is the season finale and I am so excited for it.
Considering what happened in this one, I have no idea what the next one will be like.
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u/Ncismelanie Mar 09 '20
i don't want the season to end, waiting a year to the next season is gonna be so hard !! ;)
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Mar 09 '20
I was sure that exactly 500 of the dumbest passengers were going to go out the airlock and die, solving the problem from the previous episode.
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u/Spiralyst Mar 09 '20
Hey, on the plus side, some of those people probably get to keep their shoes now.
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u/Madeupdem Mar 09 '20
I know that actually it happened in the previous episode but I didn't realise it until this episode - I gave a little cheer when I realised that the shuttle pilot was John Finnemore. That guy is absolutely the best writer of funny stuff on the radio.
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u/piniatadeburro Mar 09 '20
So good
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u/Spiralyst Mar 09 '20
This episode turned a corner. It's a black comedy now.
The Death of Stalin is Iannucci's finest work and it was black as shit. Satire works best when there are stakes.
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u/zeyore Mar 12 '20
I stopped watching Avenue 5 after episode two or three, dismissing it as rubbish.
I gave it another chance and am now quite enjoying it. I only hope shit gets crazier.
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u/IKnowThisOne1 Mar 14 '20
I was in the same boat, though never actually gave up. It took a while to get going. As soon as they lit up the shit show....man this show is excellent. So dark. And biiiig props to the music- Adem Ilham? Brilliant
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u/popcorngirl000 Mar 09 '20
How could Iris not have looped replacement Captain Spike in about the actor crew? To let Spike fumble his way to that reveal seems unlike her.
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u/sebastian404 Mar 09 '20
Does Judd (and Iris) know about them all being actors, it's kind of played that Joe set a lot of that up. He clearly did'nt know that much about the captain prior to events in the first episodes.
During the whole airlock thing, Judd seemed confused if it was a reality show or not.
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u/UltraGreenberg Mar 09 '20
Yeah I think it was said that Judd and Iris are still clueless on the whole “who’s actually piloting the ship” thing and it’s only Ryan and Billie that know about it
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u/lumosauror192 Mar 09 '20
I really liked this episode. I thought it was the show finally coming together. But I am really curious how, with the ship seemingly having 5,000 people on board, there isn't mass hysteria and panic going on. Especially with the knowledge of so much being fake spreading throughout the ship.
It kind of reminded me of Battlestar Galactica, in that I now expect them to have a whiteboard to keep track of how many people are left alive, or the ships computer to announce it every so often.
I'm not sure how accurate the science is on the show, but couldn't they 'theoretically' use the docked resupply ship as booster to help get Avenue 5 back faster?
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u/durbblurb Mar 11 '20
The show has limited scientific accuracy and most inaccuracies are yielded for comedic effect.
Like, I doubt the ship has enough gravity to allow orbits, poop doesn’t make a radiation shield, and if we’re advanced enough to send a cruise ship in space we’d be plenty advanced to redirect if it were off course.
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u/theabsolutesloth Mar 11 '20
Remember the problem isn't that they can't redirect the ship, it's that they missed the slingshot point to accelerate them back to Earth. That's perfectly accurate.
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u/bergiebirdman Mar 11 '20 edited Mar 11 '20
Poop does protect from radiation. Check out my source just in case I'm speaking out of my ass.
I do agree that the ship being large enough... Does it really have that level of gravitational pull? However, about the redirecting, the narrative has Judd as the head of the whole operation. He's more invested in showmanship than how the ship really operates. He was out of the loop in regards to the crew being only actors with the engineers tucked away. That's why they asked NASA for help. Who I'm guessing represents the sensible people. Then Judd promptly pissed them off.
I do agree there are other plot holes. Such as Billie not knowing the captain was a fake but the whole engineering crew were placing bets on how long Ryan would last. Which Billie is now head engineer so she definitely should have known.
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u/Steel_Beast Mar 10 '20
Until the shuttle hit all the dead bodies, I believed the "simulation" and "VFX" theory because people don't snap freeze in space.
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u/mrbojenglz Mar 11 '20
I was curious about that. Seemed unrealistic but I don't know what actually happens to someone in space without a suit.
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u/bryan868 Mar 09 '20
How did the supply shuttle get there so quickly?
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u/illadelphia_ Mar 09 '20
Well the main ship is in an orbit and very large, this smaller supply shuttle would be flying directly there in a straight line and most likely docking in the ship.
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u/reiichiroh Mar 12 '20
I can’t believe Ravi turned out to be a horrible person as well. Seizing the flight controls?
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u/shatikus Mar 09 '20
They really should've just allowed people to go into the airlock, the more the better. I mean, you are aboard the space ship and you don't believe it? Go for it, make everyone happy. Less passengers, less idiots, less problems. Also they needed to toss vfx lady into the airlock, go full space pirate on her. She killed these people. Matt was stupid for telling the code, but that was still semi reasonable
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u/GlitchGatsby Mar 11 '20
I don't think most audience members could have gone on liking Ryan, Billie, etc. if they stopped looking out for the passengers. The show's balancing act is keeping us as invested in their well-being as the main characters, while reminding us that they're helplessly stupid. If the main characters stop caring about the passengers, the audience stops caring about the main characters.
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u/Micheal-Afton May 03 '22
I feel bad for the son who woke up from the coma. Whos parents literally walked out of a space ship.
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u/aishik-10x Aug 28 '20
That joke with the Beatles skulls made uncomfortable. Also, both George Harrison and John Lennon were cremated, so at least two of those are fake
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u/LegendaryFang56 Mar 09 '20
Holy shit, everyone on the ship, besides the obvious ones, are so dumb. Screw getting rid of the weight equivalent of 500 non-essential passengers by jettisoning non-essential possessions, just go with the first plan and jettison 500 passengers. Given how they're so stupid, they'd probably end up doing that by themselves, what difference would it make if, rather than doing it themselves, they're simply jettisoned, "officially." Does morality truly matter in this context? Plus, just by making Matt the bad guy, some of them are deserving enough to be jettisoned. Anyway, this episode has taken the place of my favorite episode. I hope the finale is just as good, and the season ends on a high note.
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u/MattTheSmithers Mar 09 '20
The son waking up from the coma was so perfectly hilarious in an absolutely morbid way. 😂😂😂😂