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For starters, its not actually set in space.
ButMoonbase 8is more absurdist, low-key, and capable of eliciting actual laughter from its audience.
In the first episode, they blow through a months supply of water in a single week.
In the second, they struggle to get their space suits on in a timely manner.
Another half-hour installment centers, partially, around a board game-related dispute.
To emphasize that point, none of our three heroes can even remember what NASA stands for.
One of the reasonsMoonbase 8works as well as it does is that its deliberatelynottelling stories on a grand scale.
It helps, too, that the team behind it shares the same deadpan comic sensibility.
That is very much a compliment.
In another running gag, NASA is a constant thorn in the sides of the moonbase crew.
Every time the organizations send a video message, its deemed an intrusion.
(Cap gets really pissed when one such message ruins a game of online solitaire.)
Hey, Skip writes in the opening of said sternly worded letter.
What are you up to?
The last episode ends on a cliffhanger that implies that a second season may be coming.
At least thats the hope since six episodes doesnt seem like enough.
But not having enough is basically the theme ofMoonbase 8.
Or as Cap puts it: You cant always get what you want.
Just like the Beatles said.
