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The Orville is also an absolutely amazing show. There are

June 28, 2018 by Elizabeth Duran

The Orville is also an absolutely amazing show. There are so many characters and locations that The Orville manages to work so well. In fact, I highly recommend watching it in the context of season 2 of The Office, which is about to premiere on HBO on Sunday, October 2, at 9/8c. Even with a relatively minor plot twist this episode, it still manages to have a satisfying balance of drama and action.

For fans hoping for more, Ars talked to Bormanis about why he got involved with the series, how the writers chose to push themselves to the limits of what is possible and how the writers and producers of The Orville felt about taking what they created and making their story into the reality they wanted it to be.

You mentioned that you wanted to tackle the "real world" in the same way that The Orville was about the real world...

I had a very early idea of what I wanted. I had an idea of what the science was and what the characters were. I had a concept of how the universe was going to work when we first started writing the show. I thought it would be a really interesting way of putting this universe up on the screen. A more realistic way to look at it.

What we did in season 2 was we began with "Ascension", the first episode we really did want to make. The first episode was "Invisibles", which was about the "universe". Then we did "Sorrow" which was about the "world". It was about the world of humans, and the human race. It was the "real world" that we wanted to show. That was the goal of the series.

The show was so much more about the human side of the universe. There was a lot more of it; the human world, the human race. It was more like this weird weird sci-fi universe. It was an amazing universe, very big. We wanted to push the boundaries that we didn't want to reach.