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The Orville season 1, episode 7 "Majority Rule"
Written by Seth MacFarlane, directed by Tucker Gates.
The Orville is sent to rendezvous with a missing research team on a planet strangely parallel to 21st-century Earth. While exploring the surface undercover, Lieutenant John LaMarr (J. Lee) is (in)advertently disrespectful of the planet's culture and finds that his life hangs in the balance of what everyone else thinks about him. Running out of time and options, Lieutenant Alara & Dr. Finn offer a sympathetic local (Giorgia Whigham) the ride of a lifetime in exchange for her help.
Originally released: 26 October 2017
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What did you think?
If I am honest, I skip the episode every time.
It just seems like a snotty and kind of cheap commentary on current life that makes no real attempt to understand how current life works. It's like Seth and his writers looked at Twitter et al and thought "Oh, I've seen one or two bad incidents of something like this happening, so lets blow it up into something it isn't"
It kind of annoys me, and appeals to the idea that the internet is a "bad thing" (tm) that is going to be the end of society and destruction of civilisation.
Which, as I said, annoys me.
For a series that I really like (and I do really like it) it's the one episode I really can't stand.