"Avenue 5": The new series of "Veep" creator wanders aimlessly

Watching HBO's new and promising series creates the sense that the team is trying to figure out how to progress. The creative freedom that is supposed to produce a joyful, orchestrated mess actually gives rise to just a mess. However, there are good reasons to assume that all of this will eventually come out a great series

"Avenue 5": The new series of "Veep" creator wanders aimlessly

So much on Avenue 5 is already craving paper. A new HBO comedy created by Armando Yanucci, the genius behind "Veep" on the same cable network. On the front of the new series stands one of the guest stars of the previous series, Hugh Lowry, and next to another mighty comedian of HBO comedy that just ended - Zach Woods of "Silicon Valley," who even hosted a few moments on "Veep" in a small role but remember. These names alone managed to make Avenue 5 one of the most awaited series of the year.

But here's something else to consider when watching it: Yannucci's previous series also needed time to start. "Veep" became one of the great comedies of the previous decade, especially throughout the four seasons in which Yanucci directed the series, but it improved and prospered as it progressed. Gone and found the rhythm that made her so funny, actors and great characters gradually added to Cast and made him one of the perfect onscreen. So for years, until Yanochi left, every season was better than its predecessor.

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Returning to collaborate with Armando Yanucci. Hugh Lowry, "Avenue 5" (Photo: PR)

Hugh Lowry, Avenue 5 (Photo: HBO, PR)

As you can guess from this reluctance, the beginning of "Avenue 5" is still not realizing its tremendous potential, stemming more from the people behind it and its front than from the story of the act. The plot takes place 40 years in the future, at a time when trips to the length of the solar system are commonplace and cost billions of dollars. Lori embodies Ryan Clark, the beloved and laid-back captain of the prestigious "Avenue 5" pleasure spacecraft. Zach Woods is a customer service manager whose methods are a bit odd. In addition, the cast also includes Josh Gad ("Breaking the Ice") as Herman Judd, who owns the eccentric company that is also on the spacecraft; Susie Nakamura embodies our right hand a bit as she did with Sam Seaburn in "The White House," though much more correct and dry; And Rebecca Front ("In The Corridors Of Government," meaning "The Thick Of It," by that Yanucci) is an opinionated and assertive traveler. When something goes wrong and drives the spacecraft out of its original orbit, the crew and passengers are appalled to discover that their travel time has swelled to unreasonable proportions - instead of a few months they are sentenced to wander for several years.

As requested, this is where a misunderstanding based on the crew's attempt to control the situation grows without causing panic among the passengers, while for the crew members themselves the new situation reveals more and more truths and removes more and more masks. At the same time, Judd's command team had to work with NASA in an attempt to get help, leading to political clashes of the kind that Yanuchi could write in his sleep.

Or so you could hope. Based on the four chapters submitted for review, "Avenue 5" will have to fly another way before it can reach prominence. Along with watching it mainly, the feeling is created that like the spacecraft team, so does the series crew that carries its name cruising aimlessly and trying to figure out how to progress from here. Unlike, say, political comedy, which relies on realistic scenarios and only has to squeeze out the funny ones, "Avenue 5" has to make up the rules while also trying to write jokes. This creative freedom that is sure to produce an orchestrated and joyful mess, in practice gives rise to just a mess. The attempt to build the world and the plot of "Avenue 5" eroded the comedy, and vice versa. The series has more jokes that fall into space (get it?) Than ones that are really funny - of the latter one can especially mention the spa accident in the first episode and the cumulative comic effect of the tremendous dealings between Earth and space.

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Jokes fall into space. Zach Woods, "Avenue 5" (Photo: PR)

Zach Woods, Avenue 5 (Photo: HBO, PR)

Searches for "Avenue 5" cause her not to commit to a single comic tone, and so sometimes she seems to be fed by the moments of disaster and the hysteria of some of the characters, and other times the pittance of their lives. This is probably an attempt to create a parody of television science fiction classics, most notably "Star Trek" which used to feature both the action and the dilemmas that arose from each episode (The Bridge of Command on Avenue 5 is obviously a direct parody of it), but it's not very direct Employee. At least not right now. Each episode of the comedy brings with it another layer of disaster, another fiasco or mishap that requires repair, but it seems that at no point does any of the characters deeply understand the disastrous consequences of such a gospel - spacecraft with a supply of months that will have to roam for years. Most of them refer to it as an unbearable inconvenience they have to live with, not to die with.

Most of the time, the feeling on "Avenue 5" is that things are done casually, clogging holes and putting out fires, grouping ideas and jokes in the hope that eventually they will take shape. So yes, it is probably amusing - some of the great comic minds of our generation are behind these hobbies. Still, the bottom line looks like a draft rather than a finished product. Now, like the passengers of the spacecraft, what remains is to wait for "Avenue 5" to get on the right track, hoping we survive by then.

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Still not very working. "Avenue 5" (Photo: PR)

Hugh Lowry, Avenue 5 (Photo: HBO, PR)

"Avenue 5" airs every Monday on HOT, yes, and Cellcom TV, adjacent to the United States.