{"id":762179,"date":"2020-05-29T12:21:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T16:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=762179"},"modified":"2020-05-29T12:21:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T16:21:47","slug":"the-ars-verdict-is-in-space-force-is-the-best-new-series-of-2020-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=762179","title":{"rendered":"The Ars verdict is in: Space Force is the best new series of 2020 (so far)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<p><em>Earlier this week, Ars Senior Space Editor Eric Berger <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2020\/05\/i-laughed-a-lot-at-netflixs-space-force-but-my-inner-space-wonk-cried\/\">explored the space-tech accuracy of Netflix&#8217;s new series <em>Space Force<\/em><\/a>. Now that its first season is in its entirety, the Ars culture section split up the duties of reviewing its fun, humor, and watchability. If you&#8217;re looking for a TL;DR: We all like it for different reasons, and we think it&#8217;s a sharp comedy in ways Ars readers will both appreciate and be surprised by. We&#8217;ve managed to leave everything below mostly spoiler-free, with the exception of a couple of jokes and plot points used to clarify our opinions.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<ul class=\"gallery shortcode-gallery gallery-wide\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"gallery-item-content\">\n<div class=\"gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/space-force-listing-980x551-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n          John Malkovich, left, and Steve Carell, right, have a lot of bad news to endure during <em>Space Force<\/em>&#8216;s first ten-episode season, now live on Netflix.                      [credit:<br \/>\n                        Netflix                        ]\n                  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Returning to TV comedy for the first time since\u00a0<em>The Office<\/em> wrapped seven years ago,\u00a0Steve Carell plays a general assigned the unenviable task of founding a new military branch in the new Netflix comedy series\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Force_(TV_series)\"><em>Space Force<\/em><\/a>. And the Ars staff verdict is in: the series is a winner, eminently bingeable, and our favorite new show of 2020 so far.<\/p>\n<p>Created by\u00a0Carell and Greg Daniels (who also created <em>Parks and Recreation<\/em> and the new comedy series <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2020\/05\/its-a-wonderful-afterlife-smart-funny-upload-is-a-sheer-delight\/\"><em>Upload<\/em><\/a>), <em>Space Force<\/em>\u00a0was inspired in part by the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/06\/air-force-ready-to-work-on-trumps-space-force-idea-but\/\">Trump administration&#8217;s announcement<\/a> that it would establish a national Space Force.\u00a0The impressive cast also includes John Malkovich (<em>The New Pope<\/em>), Ben Schwartz (Jean-Ralphio from <em>Parks and Recreation<\/em>), Jimmy O. Yang (<em>Silicon Valley, Crazy Rich Asians<\/em>), Noah Emmerich (<em>The Americans<\/em>), Lisa Kudrow (<em>Friends<\/em>), and Jane Lynch (<em>Glee, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel<\/em>), among others. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1679295#p3\">Read 27 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1679295&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=l9fxqCCSBps:aSdH0pNHslE:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=l9fxqCCSBps:aSdH0pNHslE:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=l9fxqCCSBps:aSdH0pNHslE:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=l9fxqCCSBps:aSdH0pNHslE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1679295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Ars verdict is in: Space Force is the best new series of 2020 (so far)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Ars Senior Space Editor Eric Berger explored the space-tech accuracy of Netflix&#8217;s new series Space Force. Now that its first season is in its entirety, the Ars culture section split up the duties of reviewing its fun, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=762179\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":762180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-762179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/762180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}