Season 2

Season 2 cast photo.

> *This is the year of surprise for* The Orville*.*— Scott Grimes, on Season 2
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**Season 2** of *The Orville* debuted on December 30, 2018, on Fox and concluded on April 25, 2019. The season continued the adventures of the USS *Orville*:meeting new aliens, facing old adversaries and encountering new ones, and revisiting the planet Moclus.

The season's heavy emphasis on drama and action was a marked departure from Season 1's lighthearted storytelling and frequent use of allegory; and, after Season 2 ended, creator Seth MacFarlane said that he had secretly wanted to take The Orville in that direction since the show began.

Season 2 was highly praised by critics and television audiences alike, a marked departure from Season 1, which received sharply negative reviews from professional critics but a glowing response from fans. After Rotten Tomatoes awarded Season 2 a 100 percent "Certified Fresh" rating from critics, MacFarlane stated:

*[Critics] always come out swinging when I do something new ... You try to ignore it, but at the same time it's nice when you see that big, fat, nice, round tomato and that 100 percent.*
The Orville was renewed for a second season in November of 2017. Unlike Season 1, which aired in the fall, Season 2 aired mid-season over the winter and early spring. Season 2 is followed chronologically by Season 2.5 and on television by Season 3.

## Summary

The second season opens in August 2420, several weeks after Season 1.5 and several months after Season 1.

Kelly Grayson and Ed Mercer's relationship continues to evolve. Though Ed wants to rekindle their romance, Kelly reveals her relationship with Cassius, a schoolteacher aboard the ship. While initially upset and saddened, Ed learns to accept their relationship and begins dating Janel Tyler, the Orville's new dark matter cartographer. Several months later, Janel helps the Krill capture Ed and interrogate him - revealing herself to be Teleya in disguise. When the Chak'tal attack the ship, the pair are stranded on an uninhabited world fleeing Chak'tal soldiers. The Orville rescues them, but Ed makes the controversial decision to release Teleya back to the Krill in the name of peace. Shortly thereafter, Kelly breaks up with Cassius, leaving both Ed and Kelly single again for the rest of the season.

Alara Kitan leaves the ship to develop a relationship with her estranged family. She is replaced as Chief of Security by Talla Keyali, a fellow Xelayan. Meanwhile, the rift between Bortus and Klyden that emerged during the Tribunal over Topa widens. Bortus develops a sexual addiction to the Environmental Simulator. When his secret is discovered, Klyden unsuccessfully attempts to kill Bortus in a Moclan divorce ritual. The two attempt to repair their mating.

Other relationships are explored as well. Claire Finn starts a surprising, if turbulent, romance with Isaac. Her children, Ty and Marcus, develop a close bond with him as well. A new desire for companionship awakens in Gordon Malloy, who initially crushes on Janel and later dates a simulation of Laura Huggins, a human woman from the 21st century. Talla kisses a prodigious heterosexual engineer named Locar, but is ultimately forced to turn him over to Moclus for framing Klyden for murder. John LaMarr and Jenny Turco continue their dalliance.

In January 2421, Isaac deactivates and the Orville returns his body to Kaylon 1. The Kaylon reactivate him but, in a shocking betrayal, declare war on all organic life in the galaxy, seize the Orville, and launch an armada against the Planetary Union. Kelly and Gordon manage to escape and warn the Krill of the Kaylon.

Both sides viciously fight in the Battle of Earth in February. Isaac, recalling his old affection for Claire's children, turns against the Kaylon and restores command of the Orville to its crew. A Krill war fleet joins the fray, ensuring a narrow victory for the two against the Kaylon. The Krill and the Union quickly agree to a ceasefire and sign the Lak'vai Pact of Tarazed 3 in March.

Relations within the Union sour when the Orville discovers a secret refuge colony for Moclan females known as "The Sanctuary." The colonists petition the Planetary Union Council for recognition, but Moclus threatens to secede and form a separate alliance with the Krill. The crisis ends when all parties agree not to interfere with The Sanctuary.

In May, Isaac's experimentations on a quantum accelerator inadvertently sends a version of Kelly from the year 2414 to the present. Isaac and John learn how to send Kelly back, and Claire wipes her memory to preserve the timeline. However, the memory wipe fails. Not wanting to endure a failed marriage to Ed, Kelly turns him down for a second date.

Her decision to alter the future creates an alternate timeline where Ed never becomes captain of the Orville and Isaac never meets the Finns, so Isaac never turns against the Kaylon in the Battle of Earth. The Kaylon defeat the Union and exterminate the galaxy of biological life. Kelly finds Ed, Claire, and many others to join her scavenger ship. They send Claire back to 2414 with a modified memory-wiping drug, which causes young Kelly to forget the future and restores the original timeline.

The timeline concludes with *Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow* in May 2421, while the alternate timeline in *The Road Not Taken* concludes in December 2421.

## Renewal

By the middle of Season 1, expectations were high, but not certain, that the show would be renewed. "They were talking about a second season by the end of filming the first," author Jeff Bond later said. The Orville had posted respectable ratings for the Thursday 9 p.m. broadcasting slot, Fox's highest since 2015. Bond, who had had unique access to the show during its first season production, observed:

*They didn't have any idea how the show was going to be received.... Initially it got very poor reviews based on the pilot, and it ended up doing very well in the ratings because of [Sunday night] football. They moved it to Thursday nights and there was a sense of disaster because ratings went down, but then they went back up... and outperformed what people thought it would do.*
Helping The Orville's case, the state of California approved the show for $14.5 million in tax breaks for a second season. On the other hand, The Orville ran high production costs. Each episode cost roughly $7 million to produce, more expensive than most of its competition, and the network had declined to order 13 more episodes for the Spring of 2018.

On November 2, 2017, Fox announced that it had renewed the show for a second season, four days after *Majority Rule* aired, the second most-watched episode of the show overall. Renewal came early in the year for The Orville, beating all Fox shows but *The Simpsons*. Some journalists were surprised that Fox chose to renew the series instead of ordering more episodes for the first season, but creator Seth MacFarlane had long said that he did not want a second half of the first season in order to keep the show's production values high. The budget was increased for Season 2, but the exact amount is unknown.

Twelve days later, on November 14, Fox moved the originally filmed twelfth episode of Season 1 to Season 2. The company did not give a reason for its decision.

## Trailers

Fox released a three-minute Season 2 trailer on July 21, 2018 at that year's San Diego Comic-Con.

   The trailer's serious tone was a remarkable departure from the 2017 May trailer, which portrayed the show as comedy-driven. Creator Seth MacFarlane was delighted: "I think the trailer that Fox has put together this year is awesome. They've knocked it out of the park. They've really captured the balance [of comedy and drama] perfectly. I think it's much more representational of what the show is than last year's."

On October 27, a second trailer aired during commercials for the 2018 baseball World Series, a mix of new material and old footage revealed in the first trailer. On October 29, Fox released a third trailer. On December 20 and 21, Fox released "preview" videos entitled *Preview: Welcome To The Galaxy* and *Preview: There's Nothing Like It.*

## 2018-19 schedule

Season 2 began on December 30, 2018, a Sunday night, on a midseason schedule, and after the premiere episode, the show reverted to its old Thursday night time slot. Fox did not specify why it unexpectedly bumped the show to a midseason schedule although the studio did mention that the show would begin exactly after the conclusion of *Thursday Night Football* - a newly purchased property that had occupied The Orville's old Thursday night time slot during the fall.

Michael Cecchini, a journalist for *Den of Geek* who attended the Fox Upfronts, mollified fans not to be "fooled" by Fox moving The Orville to midseason, reporting that network leadership said the show is a "huge priority." Within the studio, the extension came as a "huge relief" to the crew, according to visual effects producer Brooke Noska, as the team had much more time to complete post-production.

## Episode count

    Going into Season 2, creator Seth MacFarlane wanted a low number of episodes to maintain the high quality of the show: "I'd rather do fewer episodes and have them be better content-wise than do 22 and have them be filler."

The second season includes the missing episode *Primal Urges*. The first season had 13 episodes but the twelfth was moved to the second season, meaning that the second season would have at least 14 *new* episodes in addition to one already-produced episode.

Whether the season would have 15 total episodes was at one point an open question. Originally, Fox purchased 13 new episodes. According to executive producers David A. Goodman and Brannon Braga and director Jon Cassar in a July 2018 table interview, Fox purchased an additional episode to bring the total to 15. While there is no clear answer to the producers' comment, the final number of episodes was 14.

## Production

   As production began, the crew was understandably nervous for the success of the show. "It’s scary going into a brand-new season," MacFarlane said. "Because you’ve just written an entire batch of episodes, presumably that you are proud of and that you feel good about, and then you have to do it all over again. In the back of your head, there’s always the scary thought, ‘Oh, s—t. We used up all the stories, and there are no more.’"

The cast and crew had their first joint meeting for the upcoming season on January 28.

### Writing

According to executive producer David A. Goodman, several important writing changes occurred between Season 1 and 2:

* At MacFarlane's suggestion, when the writing team met for Season 2, they decided to pen more dramatic, less comedic scripts.
* Plot lines and character arcs would be more continuous from episode to episode.
* Great attention would be paid to the lore of The Orville by fleshing out the "nuts and bolts" about locations and species.

 Other early writing decisions included giving Gordon Malloy more screen time by making him desire companionship, fostering a familial relationship between Claire Finn, her children, and Isaac for the first half of the season, and having Ed Mercer and Kelly Grayson date other people.

Some episodes came from Season 1. During writing production for Season 1 in 2016 through 2017, MacFarlane and the writing team completed 16 scripts, 13 of which were used in the first season and three set aside if the show was renewed (two of which were the scripts for *Identity, Pt. 1* and *Identity, Pt. 2*).

At the conclusion of writing for the new season, "a couple" scripts were set aside for a possible Season 3.

### Changes to the cast, Halston Sage departs, Jessica Szohr joins

   Several major changes to the cast occurred, the most infamous being the departure of actress Halston Sage (Alara) to star in a Netflix movie. Actress Jessica Szohr replaced Sage, playing Talla Keyali.

Two new regularly recurring actors were added, Chris Johnson (Cassius) and Michaela McManus (Janel Tyler). The characters were promoted as creating a "rift" between Ed and Kelly, and forcing the commanders to deal with separate relational problems. Ultimately, however, McManus's Tyler character turned out to actually be her previous character, the Krill woman Teleya, in disguise.

### Changes to the crew

Jon Cassar, who directed the episode *Krill*, was hired as a permanent director. Years later, Cassar revealed that he was given the job only because he had joked halfway through shooting *Krill* that he would only return if he got to direct "a whole bunch" of episodes in Season 2 - a joke MacFarlane mistakenly took to be serious.

Joe Menosky, a writer for *Star Trek: Discovery*, left the show and joined The Orville as writer and co-executive producer. He would write the episode *Sanctuary*.

Tami Lane replaced Howard Berger as head of the make-up department. Co-executive producer Wellesley Wild, author of the episode *Primal Urges*, left The Orville to create a reboot of the show *Animaniacs*. Shonnard Hedges left the editing team, reducing the number of editors to two. Storyboard artist Marc A. Vena was replaced by Frank Dellafemina III. Concept design artist Lex Cassar joined.

Throughout the season, famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson served as an informal science adviser to the show.

### Changes to sets

    Design and construction teams led by production designer Stephen J. Lineweaver and art director Robert Strohmaier built an armory for the ship, more ship hallways, and a classroom. New decals were added to the exteriors of Union shuttles.

### Filming

Filming took place between February 26 and October 15, 2018, although second unit filming continued until February 26, 2019. Total filming took exactly one year.

After filming of the sixth episode concluded on May 11, the cast and crew took a several weeks-long break. The purpose of the break was to give the effects team time to edit the shot footage while others could prepare for the next five episodes, followed by another break for the remaining episodes. Season 1 had no breaks, and the effects team found themselves pressed against time to finish editing. A second break took place at the end of July.

### Post-filming

   As they had done in Season 1, the cast and crew celebrated with a wrap party on October 13. This time, the party was held at The Highlight Room in Los Angeles, California, which featured a disc jockey, MacFarlane singing "Fly Me to the Moon," and a novelty portrait room that made a three-dimensional photograph of people with the Orville. MacFarlane gifted members of the production crew with personalized "Orville" bottles of Tennessee bourbon or embroidered throw pillows. Editors showed outtake montages of the cast. (The Planetary Union Network published a video of the montages several days after Season 2 concluded.)

After the final day of shooting, the footage entered post-production and the main cast returned to their daily lives. "It feels so surreal. It's been a wonderful journey," Penny Johnson Jerald (Claire Finn) told her fans. "I can't wait for you guys to see what we have in store."

## Post-production

> *Towards the end of [the season] the scripts get more ambitious. They'll be fun to watch; they'll be Hell to make. New species. Lots of eye candy. Lots of layered storytelling.*— Tom Costantino
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The second season represents a significant increase over the first in the amount of edited footage. The first season represented over 4,000 visual effects shots, and the second is expected to double that number.

Visual effects vendor Pixomondo joined the retinue of effects companies working on The Orville for Season 2.

After November, editors worked on the footage in MacFarlane's studio in New York City, New York so that he could shoot a short film while monitoring the edits as well.

### Transition to JAZ Pods

Throughout 2018, Fox explored the idea to reduce the number of commercials during television programs by 40 percent. By early June, the proposal caught MacFarlane's attention, who wanted more air time per episode of The Orville. Meanwhile, Fox wanted "to give the show more content and respect to Seth's creativity." The two entered talks to test "JAZ Pod" commercials, an industry name for one-minute commercials that would split the episode into more breaks but greatly increase the amount of episode time from 43:45 to 48:10.

By early August, MacFarlane and Fox agreed to use the JAZ Pod format for Season 2. Editor Scott Powell reported that the switch adds five minutes more air time per episode. MacFarlane was elated: "We're part of this new, experimental program that creates a different balance between ad time and programming time, ... [which] allows you to let things breathe in a way that streaming shows are able to do. … That’s been a big boon for our storytelling process."

## Music

All of the composers of Season 1 returned, though the transition to JAZ Pods gave the show five more minutes to develop the music of each episode. "We structured the commercials differently, so we suddenly had all this extra time to play with," MacFarlane recalled. "All of that went into *shoeleather* where it's not dialogue, it's not story; it's imagery that lets you take a breath and take in the set, the visual effects work, and the music."

## Preparing to air

On January 4, *TVGuide* reported that the show would not air in 2018. The bit of misreporting earned the attention of even the showrunner, MacFarlane, who published a correction via Twitter that show would air later in the year as originally planned. A finalized premiere date was announced in mid-May that The Orville would return on December 30.

After shooting concluded in late November, the actors and workers behind the show returned to interview. Perhaps the most notable appearance was by MacFarlane on *Jimmy Kimmel Live!* on December 18 where a new clip from the next season aired for the first time. "We go deep this season," Jerald promised. "We hit on some issues that people are afraid to touch."

### Leaks

From a production standpoint, inadvertently leaked information sparked a change in policy while filming. In an interview with the Planetary Union Network, editor Tom Costantino said a "very gentle hammer" came down on the crew who posted pictures to their social network. Unlike Season 1, in which the show operated in relative obscurity, "now there's at least a couple people checking our [social network] feeds. ... Now we have to be careful."

The risk of divulging spoilers became a frequent topic of conversation by the cast in interviews. As actor Scott Grimes explained, "[W]e’ve had some people on the show tweet some things and they get a call from Fox immediately – or Seth. Well, Seth probably calls Fox and says, ‘Call this son of a b\*\*\*\*.’"

Years later, Grimes spoke candidly about the numerous leaks of Season 2: "We know Seth's reaction to anybody that gives something away, having posted pictures through the season. He's like, 'Deep in the background, there's an insignia if you really go like that.' [Grimes imitates pinch-zooming on a phone with his fingers]. And you go, 'Oh, crap. I didn't realize that.'"

### PaleyFest and the Television Academy sneak-peak

The first major public appearance by the crew was March 17, when the main cast, Coleman, Braga, Goodman, and Clark returned to PaleyFest for a panel discussion of the show. The panel reflected over Season 1 and teased the crowd with snippets of Season 2 information.

That same day, Fox quietly hosted a sneak-peak look at Season 2 production for members of the Television Academy. Little is known of that event but some details have since surfaced through promotional items.

### 2018 San Diego Comic-Con

The cast and crew returned to the San Diego Comic-Con on July 21, exuding a new confidence in the show that was not there in 2017. The hosted a panel question-and-answer session, signings, live-streamed interviews, giveaways of merchandise and props from the show, and a Season 2 trailer reveal. Show props given away include a PM-44, a latchkum, a Union comscanner, and several skulls (of the Builders) signed by the main cast.

### Cancelled 2018 New York Comic-Con

While the cast had long been scheduled to return to New York's Comic-Con in early October (they had attended in 2017), the host unexpectedly announced on September 28 that the show would not make an appearance and the panel was cancelled. New York Comic-Con cited only to a "scheduling conflict," much to the dismay of fans. Editor and associate producer Tom Costantino clarified that the cast and crew needed to shoot, and could not afford to push filming back any later.

### Season premiere

   Days before the release of *Ja'loja*, the crew expressed their jitters. "We spend an entire year working on this,” MacFarlane confessed. “You get anxious to get some feedback, because you’re really working in a vacuum up to that point... We always joke on the set that it’s an impossible show to complete on a network schedule and budget, yet somehow, we do it. We’ll be in post-production right up to the wire, trying to get all the stuff done."

## Trivia

* When second-unit filming is included, filming took exactly one year, lasting from February 26, 2018, until February 26, 2019.
* In January 2019, Scott Grimes and Adrianne Palicki announced their engagement.
* After the Emmy awards nominated the visual effects department for Outstanding Visual Effects, MacFarlane gifted each team member with a bottle of 2009 Dom Perignon champagne.

## Credits

### Main Cast

* Seth MacFarlane as Cpt. Ed Mercer
* Adrianne Palicki as Cmdr. Kelly Grayson
* Peter Macon as Lt. Cmdr. Bortus
* Halston Sage as Lt. Alara Kitan (*Ja'loja* through *Home*, cameo appearance in *The Road Not Taken*)
* Jessica Szohr as Lt. Talla Keyali (*All the World is Birthday Cake* through *The Road Not Taken*)
* J. Lee as Lt., later Lt. Cmdr. John LaMarr
* Mark Jackson as Isaac
* Scott Grimes as Lt. Gordon Malloy
* Penny Johnson Jerald as Dr. Claire Finn

### Crew

#### Executive Producers

* Seth MacFarlane
* Brannon Braga
* Jason Clark
* David A. Goodman
* Liz Heldens
* Jon Cassar

#### Co-executive Producers

* Cherry Chevapravatdumrong
* Howard Griffith (*Ja'loja* through *Sanctuary*)
* Joe Menosky
* Andi Bushell (*Primal Urges* through *The Road Not Taken*)
* Janet Lin (*Ja'loja* through *Deflectors*)

#### Co-producers

* Paul Orehovec (*Ja'loja, Primal Urges*)
* Joy Fehily
* Aaron McPherson

#### Associate Producer

* Tom Costantino
* Andre Danylevich (*Home* through *The Road Not Taken*)

#### Producer

* Ryan Ford (*Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow*)
* Jason Roberts (*The Road Not Taken*)

#### Editors

* Tom Costantino (*Ja'loja, Primal Urges, All the World is Birthday Cake* through *Deflectors*, *Sanctuary*, *The Road Not Taken*)
* Scott Powell (*Primal Urges* through *All the World is Birthday Cake*, *Identity, Pt. 1*, *Blood of Patriots*, *Lasting Impressions*)
* Bart Rachmill (*Ja'loja* through *All the World is Birthday Cake*)
* Hillary Wills (*Ja'loja*, *Primal Urges*, *All the World is Birthday Cake*, *A Happy Refrain*)

#### Casting by

* Gail Goldberg
* Sheila Jaffe

#### Series Music

* John Debney (*Ja'loja, Primal Urges, All the World is Birthday Cake, Identity, Pt. 1, Blood of Patriots, Lasting Impressions, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow*)
* Joel McNeely (*Home, Nothing Left on Earth Excepting Fishes, Identity, Pt. 2, The Road Not Taken*)
* Andrew Cottee (*A Happy Refrain, Deflectors, Sanctuary*)

#### Makeup Department

##### Makeup and Special Make-up effects

* Howard Berger
* Tami Lane
* Jake Garber
* Danny Wagner
* Cary Ayers
* Steven E. Anderson
* Carlton Coleman
* Karen Iverson
* Christopher Allen Nelson
* Jacenda Burkett
* Suzanne Diaz
* Bruce Spaulding Fuller
* Garrett Immel
* Brian Kinney

##### Hair Department

* Roxxi Dott
* Maxine Morris
* Patricia Gundlach
* Lauren Ernsdorf
* Laura LaRocca
* Kristen Saia

#### Production Management

##### Unit Production Managers

* Howard Griffith (*Primal Urges*)
* Jason Roberts (*Primal Urges*)

#### First Assistant Directors

* Jason Roberts (*Primal Urges*)
* Gary S. Rake (*Ja'loja, Nothing Left on Earth Excepting Fishes* through *Sanctuary*)
* Korey Scott Pollard (*Home* through *Lasting Impressions*)
* Craig A. Pinckes (*Sanctuary,* *Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow*)
* Joel Jeffrey Nishimine (*Blood of Patriots*)
* Haze J.F. Bergeron III (*All the World is Birthday Cake, Deflectors, Identity, Pt. 1, Blood of Patriots, Lasting Impressions*)

#### Second Assistant Directors

* Stephanie Tull (*Primal Urges*)
* Lillian Awa (*Ja'loja*, *Home* through *Sanctuary*)
* Jeremy Reisig (*Blood of Patriots* through *The Road Not Taken*)

## See also

* Episodes
* Season 1
* Season 1.5
* Season 3
* *The Orville*

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