Space Force

Not even gravity can keep them down.

Comedy Drama
English     6.5     2020     USA

Overview

A four-star general begrudgingly teams up with an eccentric scientist to get the U.S. military's newest agency — Space Force — ready for lift-off.

Reviews

the_original_crt wrote:
Definitely Entertaining. Of course some episodes are slower than others, but overall a good comedy show. Looking forward to season 2.
tmdb15214618 wrote:
Space Force tries but mostly fails to be funny. About 25% of it is funny. The rest is just watchable. I loved the open relationship B-plot that comes out of nowhere for one of the characters, although it wasn't set up or explored well enough. Most of the scripts just needed a bit more workshopping to really work. Almost every joke is just not quite there--but comedy is either funny or it's not, so they don't get half marks. I will say this: when it was funny, it got quite a few guffaws out of me. I've watched a lot of comedy. Almost nothing gets a gut laugh out of me anymore. This did.
rsanek wrote:
Yikes. Perhaps I've gotten too used to high quality stuff from these actors and Greg Daniels, but this was a huge let down. Storyline is in this weird area where it's way too over the top to be believable, but not crazy enough that it can be funny on its own. Series skirts with dealing with more serious topics but their inclusion feels awkward and typically has pandering background music. There are a few laughs here but also a solid amount of groans. Wouldn't recommend.

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Goodness Gracious Me is a BBC English language sketch comedy show originally aired on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to 1998 and later televised on BBC Two from 1998 to 2001. The ensemble cast were four British Indian actors, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia. The show explored the conflict and integration between traditional Indian culture and modern British life. Some sketches reversed the roles to view the British from an Indian perspective, and others poked fun at Indian stereotypes. In the television series most of the white characters were played by Dave Lamb and Fiona Allen; in the radio series those parts were played by the cast themselves. The show's title and theme tune is a bhangra rearrangement of a hit comedy song of the same name. The original was performed by Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren reprising their characters from the 1960 film The Millionairess. The show's original working title was "Peter Sellers is Dead", but was changed because the cast generally liked Peter Sellers. In her 1996 novel Anita and Me, Syal had referred to British parodies of Asian speech as "a goodness-gracious-me accent". One of the more famous sketches featured the cast "going out for an English" after a few lassis. They mispronounce the waiter's name, order the blandest thing on the menu and ask for twenty-four plates of chips. The sketch parodies often-drunk English people "going out for an Indian", ordering chicken phall and too many papadums. This sketch was voted the 6th Greatest Comedy Sketch on a Channel 4 list show.

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Goodness Gracious Me
1996