5 Things We Want FromAvenue 5Season 2

HBO ’s big attraction last night was theWestworld season three premiere — but fans ofabsurd space comedyalso tuned in for the season one finale of Armando Iannucci ’s Avenue 5 . We already know there ’s aseason twoon the way , so here are five thing we ’re hoping to see when the show returns .

Billie ( Lenora Crichlow ) is the chic person on the ship , and she wo n’t hesitate to cue you of that . figure : HBO

1) Pick up the story after a few months (or years)

Everyone — except Iris ( Suzy Nakamura ) , who sorta accidentally escaped back to Earth on the shuttle that was mean to scoop upHerman Judd(Josh Gad)—is still aboard Avenue 5 , and thanks to Karen ’s ( Rebecca Front ) little miscalculation , the journey has now been extended to eight geezerhood . Engineers Cyrus ( Neil Casey ) or Billie ( Lenora Crichlow ) could potentially come up with another miracle architectural plan to shave that down , but there ’s still going to be tons more clip in quad ahead .

It ’s difficult to envisage that the atmosphere among the stranded could get any closer to full - on chaos than it already has ; add on a few more month or years , and suppose the exponential deterioration that ’s bound to chance . Which friendships and relationships will fall apart ? What social boundaries will crumble ? What will Judd do without Iris to lead hitch on his worst ideas ?

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This season, we learned that Captain Ryan Clark (Hugh Laurie) is secretly British, secretly balding, and secretly not a captain.

This season, we learned that Captain Ryan Clark (Hugh Laurie) is secretly British, secretly balding, and secretly not a captain.Image: HBO

2) Add some new, unexpected characters

There are 5,000 - ish quad - cationers and crew members aboard Avenue 5 , and we ’ve only spend clip with a handful of them — which makes sense , because so far the show ’s been concerned with the multitude who are think to be in charge . But there are so many other multitude who could believably become part of the story going forrad .

As the show has amply demonstrated already , there are a variety of hilarious way to craft bothersome , entitled vacationers , like bossy trillionaire Harrison Ames ( Paterson Joseph ) and that make out - it - all VFX professional ( one can only trust Avenue 5 ’s actual VFX peep signed off on that character ) . But though we ’ve play a few random Judd Galaxy employees , like the ship ’s tie-up - up comedian ( Yesterday ’s Himesh Patel ) and the fake bridge crew , season two could emphatically give us more from the bartenders , housekeepers , the busybodied guy who runs the sideboard , etc . So far , these lineament have used creative method to telegraph their mounting disgust — whoever sleep together you could fold a towel into the shape of a butthole?—but have seldom gotten much screentime otherwise . You know they ’re got some stories to tell .

3) Bring a little more context to the story

One of the bright expression of Avenue 5 ’s first season was how it snuck little tidbits — mostly in the form of conversational asides — about what life history on Earth is like some 40 years in the time to come . A hatful of it imply bizarre tragedies ( mysterious “ fervour ” in Philadelphia ; a French famine that wiped out a bunch of children ; Google pass belly-up ; a character who forcefully cue us that “ I fight in theHuaweiWars ” ) . We also learn that the U.S. has moved its centre of government to Buffalo , New York , and now operates under two chairman , one of which is an Alexa - esque AI . Culinary trends have certainly become very strange ( would you order “ wasp tapenade”??)—and then there ’s the celebrity gossip : Richard Branson being feast to his pigs on his secret island , Tobey Maguire ’s gory last in prison house , and that dead on target - crime podcast about … Greta Gerwig . The fact that it ’s all so weird and random just makes it even funny .

Season two should decidedly keep this up , but it would also be fun to learn more about Judd , who seems to be the ultimate product of Earth circa 2060 . The show does n’t have time to indulge in flashback , so we ’ve learn only a teensy flake about how this bratty human - fry ascended to the one percent , away from at least one strong mesmerism that he had family help . But what are the other Judds like ? How did Herman go from a scrawled note about blank tourism to actually launching Avenue 5 ? Will we ever get a glimpse of the infamous Avenue 3 ?

4) Show more of the ship

The season one finish , “ Eight Arms But No Hands”—which involve a wide - scale William Holman Hunt for the dead MIA nous of passenger relation , Matt ( Zach Woods)—actually exhibit us way more of the ship than any previous episode , mostly random levels where a staff extremity having an existential crisis might hide . But it still feel like there ’s gobs more to search ( we bang there ’s an frosting rink ; what else are rider doing to pass the time ? ) that could be used both for laughs and to emphasize how gigantic the ship really is .

5) Mission Control?

Now that Rav ( Nikki Amuka - Bird ) is flummox on an eight - class sail , will Iris be running mission control ? Will Rav ’s underling ( the “ you ’ll escape your birthday ! ” guy ) be in electric charge ? Or will Avenue 5 bring in an entirely new taskmaster in the form of some other acerb comic soak from one of Armando Iannucci ’s previous projects ? We ’ll require a new leash to Earth one way of life or another ; presumably somebody ’s going to be calming down the protestors and using Joe ’s decaying head and hand to help mastermind the saving delegation from dwelling al-Qaeda .

Avenue 5 will return to HBO for a second time of year , though no dismission date has been announced yet .

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