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Fred Armisen, Tim Heidecker and John C. Reilly star in this new comedy series as three astronauts trying to qualify for their first lunar mission. They encounter obstacles along the way including loneliness, self-doubt and incompetence.
This is a take-it-or-leave-it kind of show, and in a streaming/premium cable world where so much material is available, there's no pressing need to spend your time on Moonbase 8.
A tight, quirky comedy that has more laughs in its blessedly brief three-hour total running time for this six-episode season than most comedy films released this year.
One of the reasons Moonbase 8 works as well as it does is that it's deliberately not telling stories on a grand scale. Its episodes and its scope are streamlined and focused.
As small steps for TV go, Moonbase 8 isn't the worst of that undistinguished bunch. But despite its Earth-bound moorings, it possesses the least sense of gravity.
It has one joke -- that these guys are not qualified to go to the moon -- that it kind of limply circles around during the course of each half-hour episode.
There are comedies that go for bigger laughs and those that dig deeper for smarter humor. But, Moonbase 8 finds a low comedy orbit that earns points for being such a metaphor for the times in which we live.