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Oz 9

Shipboard comedy powered by total incompetence and escalating nonsense.

Key tags
SpaceUnseriousComedySci Fi
Archive rating 10/10 Echo score
Community rating --/10 No ratings yet
Runtime7 seasons; Apple lists 163 public feed episodes
FormatFull Cast
CompletionOngoing
Release statusActive

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Funny Space Disasters
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Official summary

The listener-facing setup and premise for the show, kept separate from the archive take.

Corporate deep-space nonsense, incompetent crew energy, and a review that admits the audience is stronger than the personal fit.

Spoiler-free review summary

Quick context before you drop into the longer archive notes.

Oz 9 is a space comedy following the wildly incompetent crew of a spaceship called the Oz 9. Built by a shady corporation named Gated Galaxies, the ship was supposedly designed to transport rich people across the universe to colonize new planets, but it becomes clear quickly that that is not its only purpose.

The crew are disasters, the AI is deeply unhelpful, and most of the fun comes from watching the whole thing keep getting worse in exactly the dumbest way possible.

Review notes

The longer spoiler-free archive read, plus the more personal reaction once the basics are clear.

Spoiler-free review

Oz 9 is a space comedy following the wildly incompetent crew of a spaceship called the Oz 9. Built by a shady corporation named Gated Galaxies, the ship was supposedly designed to transport rich people across the universe to colonize new planets, but it becomes clear quickly that that is not its only purpose.

The crew are disasters, the AI is deeply unhelpful, and most of the fun comes from watching the whole thing keep getting worse in exactly the dumbest way possible.

Archive reaction

I was not the biggest fan of Oz 9 at first. It takes a while to get going, and I usually prefer more serious audio dramas. This is the exact opposite of that.

It gets more interesting after the first season, and I get why some people really love it. Not really for me, but not bad either.

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