“[Space Force] on a four-star general who has been tapped to run Space Force, the new branch of the U.S. military, which is similar to the ambitious dream that President Donald Trump announced in 2018. Carell stars as Gen. Mark R. Naird, who has relocated to a secret Colorado base to get “boots on the moon by 2024,” per order of the show’s unnamed president” (synopsis (c) EW)
When Buzz Lightyear says “Infinity … and beyond!”; when Donald Trump says something similar about the US having a military presence in space, well, it just sounds faintly ridiculous.
And, of course, hilarious, which is where Netflix’s newest comedy, Space Force, comes in, a 10-episode comedy series in which getting beyond the atmosphere has never looked more problematic or side-splittingly funny.
It helps that Steve Carrell is along for the ride in the main role of General Mark R. Naird and that superlative talents like Lisa Kudrow, John Malkovich, Ben Schwartz, Jimmy O. Yang, Noah Emmerich, and Fred Willard who are jetting on this perhaps ill-fated journey to glory or infamy too.
It helps that the Beach Boys are Mark’s inner inspirational soundtrack though you have to wonder if the military’s newest four-star general might not prefer to be heading to Bermuda or Jamaica instead instead of the frigidly unfriendly environs of space.
Assuming, naturally, that he and his team can actually get a rocket off the ground. (Spoiler alert: Don’t get your hopes up!)
Space Force launches all ten-episodes on 29 May.