Space Force with Steve Carrell coming to Netflix

In the real world, the orange one has decreed that there will be a department called Space Force to shoot aliens and foreigners and build space walls on the moon. Not to be confused with the brilliant Space Team series, Space Force is a sitcom, or at least a satire, based on the real department. It stars Steve Carrell who is always superb. Carrell is also the co-creator with Greg Daniels, who were the team behind the American version of the Office. So it is pretty damned promising.

Space Force, like the entity it is mocking, is severely lacking in details as to what exactly it’s all about. Over a year ago there was a trailer that just featured the Earth from space with some words that essentially just announced the show and that Steve Carrell was in it. Even now, the Netflix page just says: “A comedy series about the people tasked with creating Space Force, a new branch of the U.S. military.” It then just lists the creators. In case that wasn’t enough, it elaborates with: “This show is… Deadpan.” Great, thanks for that.

Happily, a load of new info has been released. It will star Steve Carrell, obviously, Lisa Kudrow as his wife, John Malkovich as a scientist (I think – he will be intense and awesome no matter his role), Ben Schwartz, and more. A proven comedic bunch of talent indeed.

Here is a plot synopsis I got from io9:

A decorated pilot with dreams of running the Air Force, four-star general Mark R. Naird is thrown for a loop when he finds himself tapped to lead the newly formed sixth branch of the US Armed Forces: Space Force. Skeptical but dedicated, Mark uproots his family and moves to a remote base in Colorado where he and a colorful team of scientists and “Spacemen” are tasked by the White House with getting American boots on the moon (again) in a hurry and achieving total space dominance. From co-creators Carell and Greg Daniels (The Office), SPACE FORCE is a new kind of workplace comedy, where the stakes are sky high and the ambitions even higher.

The hilarity – or at least the deadpan – will commence on Netflix on the 29th May. Here is a video on Nerdist News restating a lot of what I have just written:

There is no way of telling what this 10 episode run will be like but the talent involved makes it promising. Also, you might as well check out Space Team, it’s genius.