<em>Space Force </em>Tells a Terrible Joke About America
If there were a way to watch Netflix’s new series without any of the dialogue, you might mistake it for a drama from happier times. The show’s score, which pops up intermittently in wafts of softly rousing strings and trumpets, seems to consciously evoke ; in one episode, it crescendos emphatically while a troupe of astronauts marches out from an aircraft hangar toward a shining gold horizon. The directors include significant names from the film world: Dee Rees () and Paul King (). ’s set alone, which replicates a boondoggle of a U.S. military base in Colorado, is so sprawling and detailed and that it feels like it should belong to a James, the art of performative bookshelving—the obvious expense of almost feels unseemly, even without the Steve Carell was paid to star in it.
