Jokingly speaking, Trump can go to Netflix to ask for a name, after all, the establishment of the "Space Force" is one of the president's greatest political achievements.
At that time, Netflix executives had the idea of filming because of the news that Trump promoted the separation of Space Force from the Air Force and became an independent department, so they invited Steve Carell to be the lead creator, and Steve recruited his old partner Greg Daniels, and the two jointly created it. This drama. By the end of 2019, when the eighth unit of the President signed the bill was actually completed, this comedy of the same name had already entered the production stage first.
Before we talk about the show in detail, we must start with the upsurge of The Office (US) US version of "Office" on Netflix.
Since the launch of Netflix, the ratings (that is, the number of views) of works have never been published. It wasn't until Nielsen's report last year that the outside world learned that Netflix's most popular drama was "The Office" starring Steve Carell.
This is an unexpected result.
"The Office" is an old drama that can beat many Netflix homemade and outsourced dramas. It ranks first among all the shows in terms of annual broadcast volume. The number of viewers is even higher than that of "Friends" and "Stranger Things", which are ranked 2nd and 3rd. It's much higher.
Self-made new dramas can't fight for outsourcing old dramas, it should be more helpless for Netflix. What's more helpless is that NBC also plans to launch its own streaming media platform. No matter how much money Netflix wanted to buy the copyright, they couldn't make the "The Office" in the end and returned to NBC's own arms. Netflix issued a statement in January 2019: As NBC does not renew the contract, the time limit for "The Office" on Netflix will expire in 2021.
What should I do if I am about to lose the favorite drama of the members? Let the creator of this drama make a new one! So spending a huge amount of money to invite Steve Carell to return to filming "Space Force" is actually a solution for Netflix to not keep the broadcasting rights of "The Office".
Under this premise, the various problems faced by "Space Force" are also doomed. After the series went live, it was severely criticized by critics, and the overall ratings of MC and Rotten Tomatoes were quite low. These are all predictable results.
On the one hand, Netflix is too eager for quick success. Most of the birth of non-adapted original American dramas is that the main creator takes the written first episode script or outline to sell it to the TV station. "Space Force" this time does not even have a general concept, but the senior management confessed the name of the space force and set up the project. , Which is equivalent to letting Steve and Greg do the propositional composition, which has to be completed before the "office" is off the shelf. When they wrote the script, they didn't have any reference. It was all based on imagination. In reality, the real space force was born later than the filming of this drama started. On the other hand, the audience waited for Steve Carell to return to filming comedy for ten years. His and Greg's signatures as the core creators of "The Office" are too weighty. With the addition of heavyweight casts such as John Malkovich and Lisa Kudrow, it is inevitable that people will be attracted to this movie. The drama has high expectations. The most important thing is that absurd science fiction is involved in diplomacy and politics, making people think that adding the theme of "Silicon Valley" to the "Office" team can create a space technology version of "Veep". However, "Space Force" did not adopt the traditional sitcom model, which caused people to bias the positioning of the show.
In fact, it should be clear from the first episode that "Space Force" is not "The Office". But this drama still can always see some shadows that pay tribute to the past. Including Mark's daughter named Erin, and two characters named Angela and Kelly. Mark is sweating in the gym, and everyone is staring at the big screen and waiting for the point-to-point scenes, which are the points that make the "office" fans knowingly smile.
After watching the 10 episodes, I subjectively thought "Space Force" was a good show and funny, not as mediocre as the media criticized it. Although the gaze has been shifted to space, the core of this drama is not about science fiction and deliberately downplaying political factors. The essence is to focus on mainstream American values, talking about work, family, and interpersonal matters. If it is renewed (I believe it is very likely), according to the character setting of the first season and many unexplained suspense, this drama has broad room for development in the future.
If these professional critics hadn't lost their memory, they should remember that when "The Office" was first broadcast, they gave bad reviews, but more than a decade later, they still couldn't stop the public's love for "The Office." Really good comedy, pave the way for time, and time will prove it.
Finally, add some foreign affairs of the play:
This time, many people learned about Steve Carell's creative power. In fact, in addition to acting, he has been a screenwriter since his debut. His first co-writer film won the summer box office championship. He wrote the second season finale "Casino Night" of "The Office", which won the Screenwriter Guild's Best Screenplay Award that year.
This is not the first intersection between Steve Carell and the cast of "Friends". Steve Carell's first TV appearance after leaving the "office" was to help "Phoebe" Lisa Kudrow with a cameo appearance in her play "Net Therapy".
Since there was no reference when the series started filming, the crew made a conservative choice in terms of costume styling and tried to avoid being too "Star Wars". Unexpectedly, the team uniform and team flag logo of the Eighth Force Space Force would be compared later in reality. The design in the play is more sci-fi and exaggerated, more like Star Wars. On the day the series started, the real Space Force officials also tweeted their congratulations.
Fred Willard, who played the male lead's father in the play, died in May 2020, shortly before the start of the play. So the first episode's ending subtitles use in memory of as a nostalgia.
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2020.06.17 update
There is still no news of renewal, but since the launch of "Space Force", it has been ranked first on Netflix.
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