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'Moonbase 8': TV Review

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It's not exactly ideal that my immediate response to this Showtime comedy's six-episode first season was to step back and ponder what the show's creators, all extremely funny men, thought was funny about their new series.

It's very rare that anything gets more amusing when a "Wait, so what's the actual joke here?" rubric is applied. I guess the best I can do is explain that Moonbase 8 is supposed to be the inversion of The Right Stuff, the Tom Wolfe book and not the milquetoast Disney+ series.

The book is all about what made the Mercury astronauts the perfect men for that assignment and that historical moment, what made them exceptional and representative for the first excursions into space and for the optimism of the ascending Camelot.

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