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By Jeremy Mathai/June 2, 2022 12:12 pm EST
“The biggest change is in tone. Not even so much on the page — we really landed on that in season two. We had kind of moved away from the punchline model and really leaned into letting the comedy come out of these characters and their personalities, and just being a real workplace. It’s full of jeopardy and things we never have to deal with in our workplaces, but it’s still a bunch of people working together, and the personalities have to feel real. So, that’s changed.”
‘You can be indulgent in that way’
To once again reference “Star Trek,” I would say this is one aspect that “Strange New Worlds” has been particularly adept at, with episodes clocking in anywhere from 46 minutes to 54 minutes. Here’s hoping that this translates to even better episodes in the upcoming weeks.
“The biggest difference for me being on Hulu is that I don’t have to tell a story that’s exactly 43 minutes long every week because I have to make room for a certain number of commercials. That’s not how storytelling works — different stories are different lengths, and you start to fall into this cadence where you’re shaving scenes down, you’re cutting things that don’t need to be cut. The best part about being on Hulu is that those moments where you want to linger on an actor’s face because it’s meaningful and it helps to tell the story? You can do that. You have the time; you can be indulgent in that way.”
Season 3 of “The Orville” premieres today, June 2, 2022, on Hulu.
