Space Force Creator Greg Daniels on How They Refocused the Show in Season 2

With Collider premiering the first trailer for Space Force Season 2 (you can watch it here), I was able to speak with co-creator Greg Daniels about what fans can expect in the new seven-episode season. If you’ve never seen Space Force, the Netflix series was created by Steve Carell and Daniels, and it follows General Mark R. Naird (Carell) and his underdog team at the newest branch of the military, Space Force. The show also stars John Malkovich, Ben Schwartz, Tawny Newsome, Diana Silvers, Jimmy O. Yang, Don Lake, Lisa Kudrow, and Tim Meadows. While I enjoyed the first season, the second season is a lot stronger (and funnier), and that’s due to a number of behind-the-scenes changes that Daniels told me about. He explained how the first season’s cinematic style was something they felt didn’t work and why they changed it: “Steve (Carell) and I were very much in the mind of not making it like The Office in the beginning, we were trying to make it very cinematic. And what happened when we stoppe