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| SHOWTIME | Release Date: November 8, 2020 |
Summary:
Astronauts Skip (Fred Armisen), Rook (Tim Heidecker) and Cap (John C. Reilly) seek to complete their training at NASA's Moon Base Simulator in Arizona to qualify for a real lunar mission in this comedy series created by Fred Armisen, Tim Heidecker, Jonathan Krisel, and John C. Reilly.
Genre(s):
Comedy
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Recent Episodes
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S1:E6. Beef
Air Date: December 6, 2020
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S1:E6. Beef
Air Date: December 6, 2020
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S1:E5. Move the Base
Air Date: December 6, 2020
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Mixed:
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Nov 6, 2020
Season 1 Review:
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, and the things its characters confront are purposely not grand at all. It helps, too, that the team behind it shares the same deadpan comic sensibility.
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Nov 5, 2020
Season 1 Review:
There is quite the understated humor that one would expect from the show’s stars and creators, which can make the series hard to get into at first. The first two episodes are certainly more of a light chuckle than any big laughs, but as the season progresses—and honestly, by the third episode—the show’s rhythms and idiosyncrasies are quite apparent. ... “Moonbase 8” is a project that manages to combine their [Armisen, Heidecker, Krisel, and Reilly's] collective talents into something both weird and heartfelt.
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IndieWire
Nov 9, 2020
Nov 9, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The series might lack the audacity and boundary-pushing of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! or Mister America, but it has enough low-key moments of invention—like the trio taking time out from their training to gamely participate in product testing for a new Snickers bar, or a climatic celebratory dance in newly delivered NASA jumpsuits, soundtracked by Billy Joel—to make you want to see what direction this star-studded lunar vehicle is going to steer toward next.
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Nov 5, 2020
Nov 6, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Moonbase 8 is about three guys in what amounts to quarantine, which adds an unexpectedly timely wrinkle to what's otherwise a pretty silly comedy. Even with that, though, this wry but inconsequential Showtime series feels so weightless, despite the talent involved, that it could easily just float away.
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Nov 4, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Almost all of it just lies flat, and the choice to give the theoretically meatier dramatic material to Armisen rather than Reilly feels particularly odd. All three guys come across as cartoons, but Skip especially, because pathos has never been part of Armisen’s indelible skill set.
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Jan 12, 2021
at one point it looked like it was gonna steer into sjw territory but in the end it was actually kinda based. funny as **** please one more season
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: November 8, 2020
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S1:E6. Beef
Air Date: December 6, 2020
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S1:E6. Beef
Air Date: December 6, 2020
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S1:E5. Move the Base
Air Date: December 6, 2020
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S1:E4. Visitors
Air Date: November 29, 2020
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S1:E3. Quarantine
Air Date: November 22, 2020
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S1:E2. Rats
Air Date: November 15, 2020
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S1:E1. Dry
Air Date: November 8, 2020
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Season 1 Overview