After years drifting toward drama, Steve Carell made a movie with Jon Stewart and a show with Greg Daniels. But in both he comes across as reluctant to be the punch line of the joke, as though he lost his taste for playing the fool. alisonwillmore writes
Photo: Focus Features America’s adopted a lot of screen dads for itself over the years. Steve Carell has never really become one of them, despite being a celebrity with an endearingly dependable air, one who comes across as sturdy and as unassuming as, to cite a description attributed to Stephen Colbert in a New Yorker profile, “a manila envelope against a tan wall.
But, as it turned out, 2020 would be no one’s year, though the pandemic can’t entirely be blamed for why Space Force and Irresistible fell so remarkably flat. They are projects that would play as anodyne in regular times — the turbulence of the summer in which they premiered just making their relevance-adjacency more obvious. But both are also anchored by performances from Carell that feel lost, as though he weren’t confident in, or even aware of, the intended tone for either project.
Steve Carell in Space Force. Photo: Aaron Epstein/Netflix Space Force is ultimately as apolitically political as Irresistible, despite a setup that would seem to make satire of the Trump presidency unavoidable. There are brief bits of contact, like a story line involving uniforms designed by the First Lady — but while the series references Dr. Strangelove in everything from its production design to the character of Dr.
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