Obviously, we’ve got the stuff mentioned about - the 40-60 year sentence, Naird saying the crime was “very serious.” Beyond that, there’s just about nothing to go on. So let’s examine the clues, which are very scarce. It’s not in there,” Daniels told The Wrap. So we’re enjoying not being specific at the moment. It causes you to lean in because we’re dropping little hints about what it is and how serious it was. “At the moment, we’re kind of enjoying the mystery around it and the question marks that it raises.

So we asked “Space Force” co-creator Greg Daniels about it. It’s just this strange information gap that never gets filled.Īlso Read: 'Space Force': How Will Season 2 Handle Those Big Cliffhangers? It’s not presented as a mystery, since it’s not necessarily important to the plot to know what her crime was. At one point, General Mark Naird (Steve Carell) says that Maggie committed a “very serious crime.” On several occasions the characters mention that she’ll be locked up for at least 40 years, and one time it’s specified that her sentence is 40-60 years.īut nobody ever says what Maggie actually did. But the weird thing about that is that “Space Force” never establishes what she did to end up there. What we’re talking about here, of course, is the situation with Maggie Naird (Lisa Kudrow), who spends almost the entirety of season 1 in prison. What’s the inverse of a gag? Like, what if a gag is a gag by not making a joke? What if the joke is that there isn’t a joke? This, we think, is something that we think Netflix’s “Space Force” did throughout its first season. (This article does contain some spoilers for “Space Force” on Netflix)

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