'Astronomy Club' Season 1: What can viewers expect from Netflix's upcoming sketch comedy show?
This Friday, Netflix will drop the first season of 'Astronomy Club'. The first season will have six half-hour long episodes. So what can viewers expect from the initial episodes of the sketch comedy show?
The Astronomy Club is a New-York based comedy group that first formed in 2013 and became the first and only all-black house team at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. The group consists of Shawntae Bowen, Jonathan Braylock, Ray Cordova, James III, Caroline Martin, Jerah Milligan, Monique Moses, and Keisha Zollar who all have multiple writing credits in shows from NBC, HBO, and Comedy Central to name a few.
They became known for their Comedy Central digital series and their famous recurring sketch show, 'A Journey Thru Black History', in which they satirize racial oppression in modern America from their own experiences. Last year, the group launched its digital series in the same name with Comedy Central. The first episode featured a sketch where George Washington Carver talks about other black visionaries whose inventions were much more remarkable than peanut butter.
The group's sketches offer a comedic take on a variety of relatable issues and the upcoming Netflix show can be expected to do the same. The series will feature a show within a show, in the form of a fake reality show with all the members living together in one house. The characters will play heightened versions of the members.
For viewers, they will come to know that the group truly shows how comedy can be done without being offensive while being respectful to people of color, women, and others, where most comedians choose to use these factions as the punchline.
Viewers can, of course, get acquainted with the Astronomy Club's brand of comedy by watching their digital series on Comedy Central online before the series drops on Netflix on December 6th.