Fox's Space-Age "The Orville" Is Funny and Full of Heart

I’ll be honest.  When I first caught wind of Seth MacFarlane’s new Fox comedy The Orville I thought it was going to be corny as hell.   Reason 1: His animated shows Family Guy, American Dad and The Cleveland Show.  They are heavily steeped in MacFarlane’s signature sense of humor, and while two thirds of the aforementioned were/are wildly successful the argument can be made that the novelty’s worn off a bit.  Reason 2: MacFarlane’s last live-action acting attempt in A Million Ways to Die in The West, which also fell sort of flat.  All of this adds up to my forgivable assumption that his newest endeavor, a space comedy in which he also stars, wouldn’t be too great, either.  Let me make this perfectly clear: I could not have been more wrong.