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Positive:
13
Mixed:
20
Negative:
11
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Critic Reviews
Jun 1, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The good news is that this is not the worst space parody ever. In fact, it rockets off the pad with a fall-down-funny pilot episode. From there, though, it hits turbulence. ... The best thing about Space Force is Carell and Kudrow. ... Unfortunately, because of the absurdity of their situation, Carell and Kudrow get precious little screen time together. That leaves this show at the mercy of John Malkovich, who is determined to give us one of those peculiar Malkovichian characters.
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The IndependentMay 27, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Carell dilutes his buffoonery with humanity, and Naird is more likeable than he ought to be. There are a few good one-liners. ... But the series struggles to get out from under the biggest joke of all, which is that it is based on a real US government department. It’s material for a sketch, rather than a whole series, and it would be funnier if it wasn’t true.
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The TelegraphMay 26, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Daniels knows how to handle an ensemble cast and the Space Force team are deftly drawn. ... Dramatic detours are part of the problem with Space Force, especially during its serious mid-series dip. It’s tense at times, tender at others and often feels more like a comedy drama than out-and-out sitcom. The dialogue has zing and bite but doesn’t elicit enough laughs.
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May 26, 2020
Season 1 Review:
There’s an immense amount of talent on screen in Space Force, from the main ensemble to the recurring cast, which includes Jane Lynch, Patrick Warburton, Diedrich Bader, Fred Willard, Ben Schwartz, Dan Bakkedahl, and Jessica St. Clair. What the show lacks is any kind of comedic vision, or even a fully-formed concept.
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Feb 16, 2022
Season 2 Review:
Yet for all this fine-tuning, the series as a whole still feels remarkable only in how underwhelming it is. The plotting remains lax and lumpy. ... I’d say Space Force needed more time to flesh out some of these narratives, but given how much of the time it does have feels wasted, I don’t know that it’d actually help.
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Jun 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
By turns winningly silly, curiously flat, and hauntingly off-key, the series presents a case study in the artistic perils of trying simultaneously to present a fresh satire of the military-industrial complex and a comfort-food buffet of workplace-sitcom commonplaces. It seems stranded between the caustic and the cutesy.
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May 29, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Reuniting Steve Carell and "The Office" producer Greg Daniels, Space Force carries such an impressive payload -- from the star-heavy cast to the concept -- it's a shame the actual show isn't better. As is, this too-broad parody has sporadic moments but consistently feels like it's trying way too hard to achieve liftoff, like an "Airplane!" movie gone wrong.
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May 28, 2020
Season 1 Review:
One could almost write the jokes in one’s sleep. Unfortunately, that seems to be precisely what co-creators Greg Daniels and Steve Carell have done with their disappointingly clunky new Netflix comedy series, “Space Force,” which spends a lot of effort just trying to get off the ground. ... To some extent it does [get better], more than midway through this batch of episodes.
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May 26, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Space Force just isn't close to consistent — especially in the first half of the season, the misses outweigh the hits — and even as it settles into itself a little more, it's hard to buy all the eventual smoothing out of characters and plot lines from that choppy beginning.
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