AVENUE 5
HBO, 10:15 p.m. ET
SEASON FINALE: This space comedy series was just renewed for a Season 2, so this isn’t the last we’ll see of Hugh Laurie and Josh Gad and all the cruise spaceship passengers lost in space. But my, oh my, how this series has become unexpectedly relevant of late. An elite luxury cruise ship (albeit in outer space) whose passengers become helplessly marooned? A percentage of people who don’t believe the threat around them is real, and end up dying as a a result of their own ignorance? The people in charge being both clueless and hopelessly incompetent, and making one bad decision after another, while desperately trying to shift blame to others? Gee. What possible lessons could be gleaned from those story lines?