Comment on Netflix’s “Space Force,” set in Colorado, is too impolitical for the times and, frankly, not funny

Netflix’s “Space Force,” set in Colorado, is too impolitical for the times and, frankly, not funny

On “The Office,” Steve Carell portrayed Michael Scott, a dim but somewhat-likable boss who constantly offended his desk-bound employees while learning awkward lessons about the limits of his power. Played for laughs, Scott’s frequent harassment and ineptitude feels markedly less benign in May 2020 than when the show aired in the late 2000s and early 2010s, trapped as we are in a time where insults to identity and personal freedom are existential threats, not just eye-rolling annoyances. “Space Force,” Netflix’s new, big-budget workplace comedy about President Donald Trump’s space-superiority initiative, has a similar problem.

 

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