Netflix's Space Force has a cast of really funny actors, but it's shocking in its inability to generate modest chuckles, let alone laughs. chaneyj writes
Malkovich, Carell, and Schwartz in Space Force. Photo: Aaron Epstein/Netflix Why is this happening? That’s the question I asked myself two years ago when it was announced that President Donald J. Trump planned to create a new, sixth branch of the military called the Space Force. It is also the question I asked myself after watching a few episodes of Space Force, the Netflix comedy that imagines how this new section of the armed forces might function internally .
Considering that its first season consists of only ten half-hour episodes, Space Force tries to cover an oversize amount of story terrain. Centering on Gen. Mark Naird , a lifelong military man who believes he’s about to take over the Air Force but is unexpectedly named head of the Space Force, the episodes focus on his relationship with Dr. Adrian Mallory , the top scientist at Space Force, as well as the missteps involved in executing Space Force’s various missions.
The excessive plotting is just one of the problems in Space Force, though. An even bigger one is that the vast majority of its jokes simply don’t land. From episode one, there’s a tonal and pacing issue that is never resolved and suggests the season is still trying to find sure footing well past its halfway mark. Space Force is all effort, as opposed to effortlessness.
The performances that actually succeeded in evoking some laughs come from Willard, who appears all too briefly, Schwartz, and Malkovich. As F. Tony — nickname: Fuck Tony — Schwartz is doing a bit of a riff on his legendary Jean Ralphio from Parks and Recreation, but he has such a gift for gear-shifting from privately irked to overly schmoozy that it’s tough to complain about that.
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