DOGS IN SPACE: Season Two
Good dogs make a good team in this funny, heartfelt space adventure.
Should You Watch It?
Season Two gives you an appealing team of genetically enhanced dogs, funny characters, and a steady supply of action. Stella grows into leadership while learning to make difficult decisions, listen to others, and work with a crew that does not always make teamwork easy.
The series also has a strong moral center. It promotes friendship, trust, admitting mistakes, learning from them, and supporting others. Still, the TV-Y7 label does not tell the whole story: every episode contains intense action, and other elements may trouble discerning families.
If your older children can handle animated gunfire, explosions, and alien goo, this is a worthwhile choice for family viewing with parental guidance.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESStella becomes Captain of Starship Pluto, a spacecraft carrying genetically enhanced dogs through the galaxy in search of a new home for humanity. The crew visits strange planets, faces danger, and tries to work together despite its many disagreements.
As Stella grows more confident in her new responsibilities, the former Captain struggles with the change in command. New adventures and a new supporting character further test whether this mismatched crew can become a team.
Is It Any Good?
Three stars means a good but imperfect season. The show is action-packed, comical, and filled with funny, adorable characters. Its animation is simplistic, but it works for the series.
The first episode is weak and unimpressive. As the season continues, however, the storytelling improves. The episodic structure gives each installment its own contained story while allowing the characters’ relationships to grow. The final episodes provide a more significant arc centered on the former Captain.
The Worldview
The season strongly promotes friendship, teamwork, trust, admitting mistakes, learning from them, and supporting and listening to friends, crew members, and shipmates. Stella’s growing confidence shows leadership as something learned through experience, patience, understanding, and difficult decisions. The former Captain’s struggle also supports the idea that a good leader must accept mistakes and put the team ahead of personal status.
The series is less sound in other areas. It includes references to occult Zodiac powers and a character with a “God complex.” It also contains environmentalism promoting the climate change hoax. One character’s thieving is presented without taking time to explain why it is wrong.
At its best, the season’s central longing is not power but belonging: imperfect individuals learning to serve one another. Scripture likewise calls believers to listen carefully and respond wisely: “Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger” (James 1:19).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
Strong moral worldview promotes friendship, teamwork, admitting your mistakes and learning from them, and supporting and listening to your friends and crew and shipmates, marred by references to occult Zodiac powers, plus there’s a character with a “God complex” and the season includes some content promoting environmentalism and the leftist climate change hoax
Foul Language
Light foul language in Season Two includes two instances of “screwed up,” one instance of stupid, one instance of butt
Violence
Strong action sequences in each episode, such as gunfire, rock crushing, physical fighting, alien goo/carcasses, and aerial spaceship dogfighting
Sex
No sex
Nudity
Naturalistic animal nudity
Alcohol Use
No alcohol use
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
No smoking or drug abuse
Miscellaneous Immorality
Characters argue/banter with each other, some questionable names such as Garbage and Chonies (Spanish slang for underwear), one character’s nature revolves around thieving, and three instances of possession but rebuked and overcome.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
Stella has to learn how to lead a difficult team. What makes someone worth following, and how can a leader listen while still making hard decisions?
James 1:19 · Mark 10:42–45The characters learn to admit mistakes and grow from them. What is the difference between making an excuse and taking responsibility?
Proverbs 28:13 · 1 John 1:9The crew’s differences repeatedly test its teamwork. How can your family support one another when people disagree?
Romans 12:4–5 · Ephesians 4:2–3The season includes a character who steals without clearly explaining why stealing is wrong. What does Scripture teach about honest work and taking what belongs to someone else?
Ephesians 4:28 · Exodus 20:15The Final Word
Season Two is funny, energetic, and increasingly heartfelt. Its lessons about teamwork, humility, and listening give families something worthwhile to discuss, though the intense action and other worldview concerns call for parental discernment. For older children and adults, WORTH WATCHING.
