Review: 9 Years to Neptune “Easiest Test in the World”

Overview

Natalie evaluates all the space crew members over the phone if they’re psychologically and mentally sound for a short 5 min test that seems harder than it sounds on the crew’s end.

Meanwhile, Suzie’s kids Quentin & Quincy want to get their mom a birthday gift which is also presented with its own challenges…



Our Take

Damn this was weird. Understandably you’d think they would give these evaluation questions in advance before even going in the damn spaceship. It kinda makes you want to see a flashback episode just to see how they were chosen and who was too stupid to realize putting a bunch of dysfunctional strangers in the same spaceship was a bad idea or not.

The pacing was quick, some part of the episode felt a bit contrived and at first, you’d think Sasha the British Nobleowman would be a mean-spirited cow, but she surprised me in a different way. As for the questionnaire, everyone had to answer, some characters surprised me more than others…

Overall, this was quite a strange yet funny episode. It was written in such a way that every setup had a payoff whether it was a small tidbit of wisdom from a British aristocratic egomaniac, who the smartest person really is, or how certain people handle their birthday, or the stressful twist ending, everything slowly came together which hopefully will be touched upon in the next episode…