People tend to confuse satire with comedy Satire exaggerates situations to show its ridiculousness. It could be funny but sometimes is quite sad or even tragic.
Space Force is basically that. An over exaggerated tale of the impossibility of communications between Military, Scientists and Politicians.
Steve Carell is four stars Air Force General Naird. A war hero (a condecorated soldier with a lot of internal baggage) while John Malkovich is Doctor Mallory an outstanding scientist with his own bag of lunacy and conflicts. Both are tasked with creating the Space Force, Trump order to create in 2019.
On top of dealing with their many differences and views of the world, war and peace they also have to answer to coward politicians, stupid orders from POTUS and FLOTUS, budgets, media pressure, appointed private contractors trying to make profit, Russian spies and war pushing military.
All that while trying to compete with other; complete with other countries space programs; who seem to be far more advanced that USA attempts.
The writers, Carell is one of them, are not trying criticism on a political party; but how inefficient the power pyramide works. Current events are a perfect proof of that.
While the first few chapters made my laugh a lot; I realized that this micro cosmos was basically our whole actual reality. A country managed by a lot of incompetent people only concerned on their own safety and sacrificing pawns (basically US) to reach their personal goals. Basically fun with a sour taste as intelligent comedy should be.
The series is not perfect; but I hope some things will be corrected by the next season. Some characters in my opinion unnecessary. Naird's frustrated daughter (a parallel story that diminish the great quality of the material towards a family sitcom).
It is never why Lisa Kudrow as Naird's wife is in prison for 40 years; the situation is quite difficult to believe.
Others characters added for comedy effect like the Chiefs of Staff meetings are perfect but Ben Schwartz as the media manager is mostly irritating.
In brief; America lost its self critic spirit by the 80s. It is time, with our current reality we recover it and see our own mistakes.
On top of dealing with their many differences and views of the world, war and peace they also have to answer to coward politicians, stupid orders from POTUS and FLOTUS, budgets, media pressure, appointed private contractors trying to make profit, Russian spies and war pushing military.
All that while trying to compete with other; complete with other countries space programs; who seem to be far more advanced that USA attempts.
The writers, Carell is one of them, are not trying criticism on a political party; but how inefficient the power pyramide works. Current events are a perfect proof of that.
While the first few chapters made my laugh a lot; I realized that this micro cosmos was basically our whole actual reality. A country managed by a lot of incompetent people only concerned on their own safety and sacrificing pawns (basically US) to reach their personal goals. Basically fun with a sour taste as intelligent comedy should be.
The series is not perfect; but I hope some things will be corrected by the next season. Some characters in my opinion unnecessary. Naird's frustrated daughter (a parallel story that diminish the great quality of the material towards a family sitcom).
It is never why Lisa Kudrow as Naird's wife is in prison for 40 years; the situation is quite difficult to believe.
Others characters added for comedy effect like the Chiefs of Staff meetings are perfect but Ben Schwartz as the media manager is mostly irritating.
In brief; America lost its self critic spirit by the 80s. It is time, with our current reality we recover it and see our own mistakes.