Space Force

 

                              Sometimes you just want to see the two train’s crash together on the tracks.  Sometimes, ok all the time I frequent the website rotten tomatoes to see what the top critic should tell me to think.  Ok, that last part was sarcasm; the real reason is I live for hate.  Ok getting paid to shit on things online one day is like my dream. It's almost like I have a little Emperor Palpatine on my shoulder saying give in to your hatred.  I can feel you rolling your eyes at me and your right that's not true. All of this really is not true, except I do browse rotten tomatoes. So what I found there was surprising and that was lots of critics saying it was dull and boring. Top critics gave it a twenty-eight percent so I had to watch it to see for myself.  So really that's what is interesting when I hit play on this crap fest that took me like a month to watch.   

                             So to give you a spoiler the critics are right this time, I have a whole theory about rotten tomatoes but I will spare you this time lol.  Anyway, let's get into it.  The plot starts with Carell charter getting his fourth star and being put in charge of a new branch of the military Space Force.  His wife and daughter are not very happy there going to live in Colorado and who would be.  So we jump ahead a year where the base is built and there working hard on the ship to take them to the moon.  The best episodes are the first two and its all downhill from there.  The shocking amount of wasted talent on the screen is crazy to me.  Steve Carell gives a surprisingly dull performance as General Mark R. Naird.  Jimmy Yang is a very funny comedian, really check out his stand up, he is completely wasted as Dr. Chan Kaifang.  Ben Schwartz who I loved early this year as the voice of Sonic plays Steve Carell’s social media expert. Schwartz is underutilized for the first five episodes and then almost overused in the last two episodes. Diana Silvers, the hero of this cast who plays Carell's high school daughter, needs the Medal of Honor for all the awkward dialogue she has to work through. My head hurt because she in the last act of the last episode were so forced I really don’t see a teenage girl doing something that stupid.  I mean it the awkward scenes with Spencer House who plays her love interest make you want to cry for her the really bad material she was given.  So I am going to gloss over John Malkovich because he again proves that he can chew scenery with the best.  So last but not least is Lisa Kudrow who plays Carell’s wife lets just call her Ms. Naird she is in jail for most of the 1st season and this is a spoiler because I can feel you ask it.  Why is she in jail you might ask? Deep, deep sigh they don't tell you. Yep, that’s the joke. She is just there sometimes with her hair in cornrows and sometimes not and they just don't really mention it ever again.  The thing that bothers me the most is it's a really good idea.  I spent most of last year listening to Apollo 11 podcast.  You really would think there would be enough there for each charter to have their own space to move the story along organically.  But the execution is pretty lackluster, jokes fall very flat and the side charters don't have a lot to do.  Really I have seen better pacing and charter involvement in an episode of home improvement. So to sum up don’t watch it. The show tries way too hard for drama and the jokes like I said fall flat.  So you get the idea, tell your friends not to watch season 2 and maybe watch House on Amazon and remember baseball only a few weeks away hopefully.