I'm further into the season and the show is really improving, IMO. I see a lot of The Office type humor in it.
In this show, They take both the left and the right and make jokes about both. POTUS is an idiot. FLOTUS is sending them uniforms. The gay head of the scientists is neurotic. There's a comment about we're all Americans here and half the crew explain they're really not. So many stereotypes are being made fun of. I won't put big spoilers in but there is a lot happening in later episodes.