YMMV / Space Force (2020)

• Catharsis Factor: Watching Kick being stripped of his command and essentially fired from the military due to his rash orders almost causing an international incident is incredibly satisfying after watching him being an asshole for all of season 1.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Both Ali and Chan tend to stand out as audience favorites, due to their likable personalities and their actors' charming performances.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The defining traits of Naird's father are his senility and poor health, which are played for comedy. This was the final acting role of Fred Willard, who passed away before the show's release.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • Mallory, after almost causing the Space Force to lose the game with the Air Force, turns it around at the last moment by hacking the Air Force's exoskeletons and turning them all into sitting ducks for Naird to pick off one by one.
  • Naird coming to his daughter's rescue as she's being chased by a group of menacing guys... by landing in a helicopter in between them. This Papa Wolf does not mess around.
• The Scrappy: Erin has been cited by many as feeling superfluous to the rest of the show due to her trite "angsty teenager" plotlines often having little to do with the rest of an episode's content.
  • Season 2 has her Rescued from the Scrappy Heap.
• So Okay, It's Average: The common consensus from reviewers and audiences is that while it is a competently-made show, the final product is underwhelming considering the pedigree of its cast and writers.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: A common complaint about the series is that it doesn't provide a lot for its All-Star Cast to do.
• Trapped by Mountain Lions: Some of Erin's escapades particularly in the last episode of season one, when she ends up in the middle of nowhere with some sketchy guys, can come across this way.
• Uncertain Audience: The show was leaning into a lot of the same sense of humor as The Office (US) and Parks and Recreation, especially with showrunner Greg Daniels and Steve Carell reuniting. But the military setting never jived with the mundanity of a civilian workplace like the other shows, with sloppy use of taxpayer dollars and petty Interservice Rivalry being equated as the same thing between office staff and warehouse crew. The use of harsh language (and not really needing it) didn't help attract the family friendly sitcom appeal either.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Part of the reason for Erin's hatedom. While her situation could make her sympathetic, she has no friends at school, her mom is in jail, her father has a demanding job and she had to move away from what friends she had, her tendency of taking these hardships and frustrations out on her father make her unsympathetic. In episode 9, for example, she demands attention from her father while he's facing a chance of international problems with the Chinese and a historic space mission.