Space Force

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: May 29, 2020
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 130 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 63 out of 130
  2. Mixed: 27 out of 130
  3. Negative: 40 out of 130

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  1. intruder313
    Jun 1, 2020
    0
    Some of the weakest joke writing in years - not Mrs. Brown's Boy bad but just plain lazy and lame, like they thought they did not need to try given the quality of the cast.
  2. JustMaNA
    May 31, 2020
    0
    Painfully unfunny and a complete waste of potential. Might get better with a season 2 but highly unlikely due to just how utterly incompetent the writing staff seems to be at landing a joke.
  3. Joel_Freecheck
    Jun 4, 2020
    3
    A show so wrapped up in the current zeitgeist it forgets to aim past mediocrity. The humor is a touch too familiar and the premise is barely utilized for comedic effect.
  4. Seriouslyaleks1
    Jun 4, 2020
    1
    It’s just bad and i was rooting for Greg Daniels and Steve Carell. However, the show just never deliver jokes.
  5. hitzestau
    Jun 8, 2020
    0
    To be honest, I only watched the first episode and had absolutely no reason to continue watching, it was hard enough to get through the first episode. It’s supposed to be funny I guess, but this is not my kind of humour. I never watched The Office, so cannot tell whether that show was funnier than this. All actors, except for John Malkovich, do a rather lame job on this show. If it isTo be honest, I only watched the first episode and had absolutely no reason to continue watching, it was hard enough to get through the first episode. It’s supposed to be funny I guess, but this is not my kind of humour. I never watched The Office, so cannot tell whether that show was funnier than this. All actors, except for John Malkovich, do a rather lame job on this show. If it is supposed to make fun of Trump’s idea of a “space force”, it fails. The reality coming out of the White House is so sad and full of absurdities - and the show is not funny enough to be a parody of some sort, nor is it a good enough drama to tell a decent story with characters that fell real. What interested me the most was to find out which university campus they had used for the location shooting. A Google search provided the answer quickly. But beyond that I have no further interest in this show.… Expand
  6. BenjiF
    Jun 9, 2020
    0
    Amazingly bad. I really wanted it to be funny but could only make it through two and a half episodes before turning it off, with Malkovich's character being the only one to get a chuckle. It wasn't just the bad writing or the targeted political satire which may have landed well depending on your political views. The butt of the joke for this series was America itself, specifically inAmazingly bad. I really wanted it to be funny but could only make it through two and a half episodes before turning it off, with Malkovich's character being the only one to get a chuckle. It wasn't just the bad writing or the targeted political satire which may have landed well depending on your political views. The butt of the joke for this series was America itself, specifically in reference to China and Russia. Ironic, considering the US launched its own manned flight to the space station, the first such flight in nearly a decade, at nearly the same time the series dropped.

    Politically speaking, Space Force reminds me a bit of Robert DeNiro's 18 month role on Saturday Night Live, playing Robert Mueller. There was definitely an audience for it, but absent political cheer leading, it was largely unfunny and the joke ultimately proved to be the series itself.

    Perhaps the one bright spot of the series is this: With the US now on it's way to Mars after the previous administration shut down our Space Shuttle program, this series will be a lot funnier in hindsight than it is today.    … Expand
  7. JuanOrez
    Jul 27, 2020
    0
    Wow. This show is terrible. Somehow, my low expectations were destroyed and a new terrible was established. A lot of this new Netflix content is garbage. Might cancel actually.
  8. angelsanzcorrea
    Jun 7, 2020
    3
    I love so many elements of this production (most of the actors, the premise, the blend of sci-fi and comedy...) but the writing was so so terrible that I got actually upset by the end of it. Save yourself sometime and don’t bother with this show.
  9. Creyson
    Jul 6, 2020
    1
    Not even Carell could save it. The writers came off as pretty lazy and they seem unable to relate to anyone outside their social bubble.
  10. kirkender
    May 31, 2020
    2
    WOOF. What a stinker. The humor is really mean spirited, and just not fun. Steve Carell is doing a really effected accent that comes of disingenuous and makes the character really hard to find charming or believable. Satire is really hard to pull off for an entire season of a show; Space Force doesn't pull it off at all, not even once during the whole season. It's like all the SNL sketchesWOOF. What a stinker. The humor is really mean spirited, and just not fun. Steve Carell is doing a really effected accent that comes of disingenuous and makes the character really hard to find charming or believable. Satire is really hard to pull off for an entire season of a show; Space Force doesn't pull it off at all, not even once during the whole season. It's like all the SNL sketches that didn't make it past the first table read all wrapped up in the veneer of "modern political satire." Do not waste your time.… Expand
  11. Proximal
    May 29, 2020
    0
    A truly intelllectually bankrupt comedy, great actors all around but abysmal writing and non-existent humor plus a snattering of "desperately trying to be poignant" moments that are completely inane and meaningless. If you like Steve Carell, just watch The Office again.
  12. Kyle_C
    May 29, 2020
    0
    An utterly toothless gonorrhea ridden paean to conformism. This sitcom is all that is wrong with modern "comedy".
  13. Trey333
    May 29, 2020
    1
    I was expecting comedic gold like the office. What a let down, the political humor gets very stale.
  14. JoeFresh
    May 30, 2020
    0
    Not a single laugh or smile in the first episode, almost 40 minutes of boring tv with no memorable parts. A massive miss and waste of money for Netflix.
  15. OlivierPiel
    May 30, 2020
    0
    Oh boy, I wished the critic were wrong again. But we've got another Netflix lazy turd / Hollywood actors money grab. This is Veep x The Office WITHOUT the jokes. CRINGE AF as young people say.
  16. sittingbullfrog
    May 31, 2020
    0
    The first episode features, among many other blunders, a prison rape joke. A lame joke about a bad secretary is repeated ad nauseam. A few episodes later we get this gem: "I hope you like potatoes" "I'm not much of a potato man myself. I prefer my starch in my collars." The joke comes moments before an obvious poop gag that lacks any comedic timing. These are just a few examples. ListingThe first episode features, among many other blunders, a prison rape joke. A lame joke about a bad secretary is repeated ad nauseam. A few episodes later we get this gem: "I hope you like potatoes" "I'm not much of a potato man myself. I prefer my starch in my collars." The joke comes moments before an obvious poop gag that lacks any comedic timing. These are just a few examples. Listing all the bad jokes would require far more than than 5000 characters. I cannot think of a single funny joke or gag from Space Force.… Expand
  17. poveryzer
    Jun 9, 2020
    0
    So, there is a scene at the end of the first episode, that has the commander sitting with the chief scientist and the scientist saying something like, "wow, you dont know about science yet you knew more than us scientist"

    Exactly what we need, people thinking that they can do better than scientist who have put there whole lives into studying something and some moron comes chugging along    So, there is a scene at the end of the first episode, that has the commander sitting with the chief scientist and the scientist saying something like, "wow, you dont know about science yet you knew more than us scientist"

    Exactly what we need, people thinking that they can do better than scientist who have put there whole lives into studying something and some moron comes chugging along saying I can do better than you.    … Expand

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Metascore
49

Mixed or average reviews - based on 40 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 40
  3. Negative: 11 out of 40
  1. The Playlist
    Reviewed by: Charles Barfield
    Oct 5, 2020
    42
    “Space Force” tries to be a satire that doesn’t upset anyone—relying on a collection of lame jokes that wouldn’t make it in an ‘SNL’ skit—and forces in unnecessary subplots that go nowhere and derail the series’ minimal comedic momentum.
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  2. The Detroit News
    Reviewed by: Tom Long
    Aug 14, 2020
    50
    A lot of humor ends up left behind and most of it stops short. This is a show that cuts with a butter knife instead of a razor blade. And it cuts every which way instead of one direction. The result is, not surprisingly, a mess.
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  3. Vanity Fair
    Reviewed by: Sonia Saraiya
    Jul 7, 2020
    70
    Space Force doesn’t have quite enough story for its first 10 episodes—though these days, that’s par for the course for the first season of a streaming show. What the series does have, in spades, is a much more ineffable quality: tone.
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