Avenue 5
- CallumOctober 22, 2025⭐⭐⭐⭐ (out of 5) Avenue 5 – Space tourism, stupidity, and the art of surviving other people’s incompetence. “Avenue 5” is a gloriously chaotic space comedy where confidence far outpaces competence. The setup is simple: a luxury space cruise takes a catastrophic detour, leaving its passengers stranded light-years from home — under the command of a captain who’s about as qualified as a toaster. Hugh Laurie plays him with pitch-perfect charm and bewilderment, balancing fake authority with flashes of reluctant brilliance. The real chaos, though, comes from the ship’s creator — a man so self-absorbed he makes the captain look competent by comparison. What follows is a masterclass in cosmic mismanagement, where every attempt to fix a problem just creates a bigger one, and survival depends more on luck than leadership. If you’re thinking this sounds like Red Dwarf re-imagined for the 21st century — you’re absolutely right. Avenue 5 trades grime for gloss and irony for absurdism, but the spirit is the same: people utterly unsuited for their situation somehow keeping the ship afloat. It’s British humour wrapped in American panic, with just enough sincerity to make the absurdity feel earned. For fans of Hugh Laurie, this is closer to his Blackadder mischief than House’s brooding genius — a man winging it through catastrophe with style. A smart, silly, and surprisingly human look at how we muddle through disaster… preferably with someone else to blame.
Avenue 5 Trivia
Avenue 5 has 2 seasons.
Avenue 5 has 17 episodes.
The key characters in Avenue 5 are Ryan Clark (Hugh Laurie), Herman Judd (Josh Gad), Billie McEvoy (Lenora Crichlow).
Avenue 5 was directed by Natalie Bailey, David Schneider, Annie Griffin, William Stefan Smith, Armando Iannucci, Peter Fellows, Ollie Parsons.
Avenue 5 was produced by Steve Clark-Hall.
The troubled crew of Avenue 5, a space cruise ship filled with spoiled, rich, snotty space tourists, must try and keep everyone calm after their ship gets thrown off course into space and ends up needing three years to return to Earth.
Avenue 5 is rated TV-MA.
Avenue 5 is a Comedy, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi & Fantasy show.
Avenue 5 has an audience rating of 7 out of 10.
Avenue 5 episodes are 30m long.
No, this show was canceled after 2 seasons.