hat’s why I did The Orville, and that’s why I, you know, we’re, we’re gonna, we still have yet to do a season four. That’s why I did that show. Because when I was a kid, Hollywood was providing that voice through, in various forms. There was a lot of hope. And we’re doing—you know, some of the blame lies right here in this town. Like, we are, the dishes that we are serving up are so dystopian and so pessimistic. And, yeah, there’s a lot to be pessimistic about, but it’s so one-sided. There’s nothing we’re doing that’s providing anyone an image of hope.
I mean, look, I love The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s a great f–king show, beautifully written, beautifully directed, but it’s… there’s a lot more of that than there is of, you know, what we used to get from, from Captain Picard. It’s like there’s, where, where is Hollywood’s… they’re certainly giving us a lot of cautionary tales. But where are blueprints that they once gave us for how to do things correctly? It can’t all be just, “Here’s what’s going to happen to you if you f–ck up.” You do need, “Here’s what you can achieve if you change your ways and do things right.
