Meh, it's weird, as before, the comedy is missing it's mark and really very badly, while it's also trying to take itself so seriously. It's trying to be full on TNG, but then Mr potato head as a joke rather than something witty and genuinely funny. Firefly is serious with great comedic moments, great jokes and great acting, this is TNG with terrible slapstick SNL style jokes thrown in of which at least 50% miss the mark.
If you look at it from a serious show it's too serious. TNG, or DS9, any of the series, they would have a transgendered, or a time travel, or a this or that episode, but it's one of many normal episodes, normal enemies of the federation or a political mission, whatever, then have these big moralistic episodes every now and then. Orville is basically a cherry picked TNG series where it's plucking out all the 'heavy' story lines and doing them one after the other which feels very heavy handed and makes it way more serious than a spoof should be. I said early on, it was sold as a spoof, but it's coming across like Macfarlane selling the network on a spoof but absolutely just wanting to do a Star Trek series in the normal style. It's a show that isn't committing to what it is and it's missing the mark badly for both types of show.
Acting has been pretty abysmal so far. It's not bad, it's just not good at all. If it wants to be TNG but funny, it would work a million times better with a more serious cast, more serious characters who have great comedic lines a la Firefly, you could easily do Firefly in the same vein with less serious (rape/eat your face off) moments and more comedic moments in a TNG type universe. The mix is just so far wide of being great, meh jokes, SNL/spoof film quality set/cgi/acting, attempting to be pure TNG in story writing but the story writing is also weak.
