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5 Things We Want From Avenue 5 Season 2
HBO’s big draw last night was the Westworld season three premiere—but fans of absurd space comedy also tuned in for the season one finale of Armando Iannucci’s Avenue 5. We already know there’s a season two on the way, so here are five things we’re hoping to see when the show returns.
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HBO’s Avenue 5 May Have The Most Accurate Portrayal Of A Future Autonomous Taxi We’ve Seen Yet
HBO’s new comedy series, Avenue 5, is about a luxury spaceliner that goes off-course, and the many and terrible people trapped inside it. There’s a lot of interesting, if deeply cynical, predictions about society and technology to come (triple-marriages will be accepted by the mainstream, artificial gravity is possible, and Daniel Radcliffe shat himself very…
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Avenue 5 Contains All The Absurd Chaos We Hope To Never Encounter In Deep Space
One of sci-fi’s go-to plots is “disaster in the depths of space,” where a catastrophe endangers the mission and, ultimately, human lives. HBO’s new series Avenue 5 takes that well-worn idea and dunks it into a mix of biting wit, cruise-ship cheese, and unlikable characters you somehow can’t get enough of.
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Not-Elon Musk Welcomes Us To Avenue 5, The Future Of Space Travel
Imagine a world where a billionaire yearned to create the field of space tourism, but hadn’t really figured out the details of how to actually do it. So weird and implausible, right?