Final Space
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Our Review
A clear love of space opera with a surprisingly heavy heart. Gary Goodspeed, a lovable idiot serving a prison sentence alone on the Galaxy One, gets a companion: Mooncake, an adorable planet killing alien that everyone in the universe wants dead or captured. What starts as a goofy comedy about a dumb guy and his cute blob evolves into a genuinely dark serialized epic, by season 2 the show is killing major characters with real consequence, and the tone shifts stick.
The animation is gorgeous for a TBS budget, and the voice cast is stellar: Fred Armisen’s KVN (the annoying suicide drone roommate), Steven Yeun as Little Cato, Ron Perlman as the Titan, and David Tennant as the villainous Lord Commander. The humor is hit or-miss. KVN divides viewers sharply, but the show’s sincerity is its superpower. Canceled on a cliffhanger after season 3 when WarnerMedia gutted its animation slate, which still stings.
Verdict: Watch it. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be furious at TBS.
