don’t have “The Right Stuff.”They’re Robert “Cap” Caputo (John C. Reilly), Dr. Michael “Skip” Henai (Fred Armisen) and Professor Scott “Rook” Sloan (Tim Heidecker), who bumble their way through “Moonbase 8,” a gentle, six-episode Showtime comedy co-written and directed by Jonathan Krisel (“Baskets”).The dim-bulb astronaut wannabes — who can’t even agree on what the letters in NASA stand for — live together in a Moon Base Simulator in the Arizona desert while training to be the first men to colonize the moon.They’re in for a bumpy ride.“These aren’t obvious astronaut choices,” says Krisel, 41. “It’s the comedic trope of the loser who has big dreams.
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