This week, after the stress of a strung out historical moment invaded our daily lives via endless poll tracking, ballot counting, and misinformation sorting, it’s kind of nice to set any worries, pessimism, and seriousness aside and watch “Moonbase 8,” a satisfying comedy about three astronauts-in-training who never leave the Earth.
Cap (John C.
Reilly), Skip (Fred Armisen), Rook (Tim Heidecker) are three equally doofy dudes, isolated in the desert, running a perpetual simulation of what it would be like to live on the moon.The only difference is, well, nothing they do matters.
They face zero consequences for their many, many mistakes.
So if a scorpion crawls inside Cap’s helmet and he rips it off to avoid getting poisoned, he’s not going to suffocate or freeze to death or whatever fatal fate would befall him on the actual moon.
He’s also not going to get a call from NASA,
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