It’s the twilight of the moron tyrant in the trailer for season 2 of HBO’s Avenue 5
The quietly great HBO series with a loudly confusing title is coming back in October

Avenue 5 Screenshot: YouTube
HBO’s Avenue 5 is an underrated madcap comedy (from Armando Iannuci, the creator of Veep!) that is kept afloat by a brilliantly unhinged performance from Hugh Laurie… while also being simultaneously dragged down by a pretty unhelpful title. The series is about the crew and passengers of a space cruise ship who, after a series of mishaps, have to extend their trip by several years. This leads to the rapid decline of any kind of society onboard the ship, with Laurie’s captain—a deeply depressed British man posing as a very cool and confident American man—trying to keep everything together. Avenue 5 is the name of the ship, and no, it doesn’t really make any more sense in context than it does here.