YMMV / Avenue 5

• Crosses the Line Twice: In Episode 8, several of the passengers get it into their heads that they're in some form of escape room situation and never left Earth, and try to exit the ship. Through the airlock. After three people die this way, Ryan sarcastically asks if anyone else thinks it's a game show; four more people (including Sarah) enter the airlock, and consequently die, which includes their eyeballs exploding as the observers scream in horror and disgust; Sarah's hand even breaks off when she hits the side of the airlock as the corpses are ejected into space! And then news comes through that the son of two of the dead people, who was in a coma back on Earth, has woken up and wants to know where his parents are.
• Genius Bonus: Cyrus forgetting to include the passengers’ weight in his calculations for the return trip may be a reference to the Apollo 13 disaster, where Fred Haise miscalculated the LEM’s air supply because he forgot to account for how all three crew members would be staying in it rather than the intended two.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The airlock scene, where a bunch of people get killed thanks to their proud, defiant ignorance, first aired just weeks before the COVID-19 Pandemic reached the United States. Comments on the YouTube video frequently compare the people who die in that scene to the people who believed that COVID-19 wasn't dangerous and protested mask-wearing, vaccinations, and other safety procedures meant to contain the pandemic. Ashley Spurgeon, writing for Nashville Scene, called the airlock scene "the perfect pandemic analogy".
  The Airlock Scene was written and filmed months before any pandemics swept the globe, but look: Here it is, ready to educate on arguably the most human aspect of our strange condition: stupidity.
• Signature Scene: The infamous airlock scene tends to be what people know about the show.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Every episode drills in how stupid, self-centered, and entitled every single character on the ship is, over and over, with little variation. After a while, it's easy to throw your hands up and walk away rather than deal with yet another episode of entitled morons making things worse for themselves and others.

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