'Avenue 5' Season 2 Trailer: Hugh Laurie Is Trying To Survive Angry Passengers In Armando Iannucci's HBO Sci-Fi Comedy

With billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos sending people into space, the idea of space tourism isn’t so much science fiction as it is near-reality. But let’s just hope it goes better in real life than it does in “Avenue 5.”

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As seen in the trailer for Season 2 of “Avenue 5,” HBO’s comedy series, from creator Armando Iannucci, tells the story of a future where space tourism is a thriving business. However, the series shows what happens when things go wrong and a fairly quick 8-week jaunt turns into an 8-year mishap as a spaceship has to figure out how to survive and get back home. 

The cast includes Hugh Laurie, Josh Gad, Zach Woods, Rebecca Front, Suzy Nakamura, Lenora Crichlow, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ethan Phillips, Andy Buckley, Jessica St. Clair, Kyle Bornheimer, Adam Pålsson, Daisy May Cooper, Lucy Punch, Leila Farzad, Jonathan Aris, and Arsher Ali. As mentioned, the series is created by Armando Iannucci, who previously had a hit with HBO’s “Veep.”

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“Avenue 5” Season 2 debuts on HBO on October 10. You can watch the trailer below.

Here’s the synopsis:

AVENUE 5 takes us to a not-so-distant future where space tourism is a booming business. While manning a luxury spacecraft owned by Herman Judd (Josh Gad), Captain Ryan Clark (Hugh Laurie) finds himself in over his head when the ship is thrown disastrously off-course – turning what was meant to be an eight-week cruise into an eight-year journey. Picking up five months after failing to reroute the vessel, season two follows the crew – including fiery engineer Billie (Lenora Crichlow), unpredictable head of customer relations Matt (Zach Woods), and faithful right-hand Iris (Suzy Nakamura) – as they struggle to lead, calm, control, and, if need be, hide from increasingly unruly passengers. On earth, they’re lauded as heroes, and in space, everyone can hear them scream.