You enjoyed the second season? WHAT!?!? It isn't even out yet. Where are you getting those episodes? I find this all very hard to believe. I hope you just misspoke, but I'm having a hard time with my credibility that you watched this show at all. The show goes away from drama/soap once you get past the halfway point of the first episode and becomes straight drama thriller with a sprinkling of family drama.
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Apple Renews 'For All Mankind' for a Third Season
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There really was a female team, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_13.
The show started with one single change in history and it created an entirely new timeline where women were pushed into space much sooner than in reality. All because of America's wish to beat Russia. Same reason the moon base happened so much sooner than present day reality. I think the show executes its premise perfectly and very believably.
Yes! After the first couple of slow episodes establishing the alternate history, the rest of the first season absolutely hooked me. Entirely
Up the standard of Ron Moore’s DS9 & BSG work, nice to see Nareen Shankar get an episode too.
This, The Morning Show, Defending Jacob, Ted Lasso, Amazing Stories and Central Park have all been terrific. Only See proved to be a disappointment (in a world where everyone is blind, who do they have flaming torches up everywhere? Would these not be serious fire hazards?!). Happy to pay for ATV+ as part of One Premium for the
Moment.
Up the standard of Ron Moore’s DS9 & BSG work, nice to see Nareen Shankar get an episode too.
This, The Morning Show, Defending Jacob, Ted Lasso, Amazing Stories and Central Park have all been terrific. Only See proved to be a disappointment (in a world where everyone is blind, who do they have flaming torches up everywhere? Would these not be serious fire hazards?!). Happy to pay for ATV+ as part of One Premium for the
Moment.
Yeah, COVID made everything delayed. We should have had Season 2 for 5-6 ATV+ shows by now if not for COVID.
Not at all. It starts with some allusions to actual history, then goes off wildly. The First Lady Astronauts Trainees was a real program, for example, but it was run by Jackie Cochrane, not Jerry Cobb, and Gordon Cooper’s wife definitely was *not* one of the astronaut candidates. That was an idea the writers apparently stole from the astronaut couple in “For All Mankind”. They also swiped the scene where an astronaut’s kid gets hit by a car while riding a bike — that never happened, to the best of my knowledge. They also added a completely fictional fist fight between Gus Grissom and Gordo Cooper, and the embarrassing seen with Alan Shepherd and John Glenn acting like grade-schoolers arguing which of them is more popular, and — well, I could go on.
The movie took quite a few liberties with the book and actual history, but the series took almost nothing from the movie or the book except the name. Which just forces me to shake my head because there was so *much* great stuff they could have mined. Instead, they took an inspiring story, abandoned everything that was great about it, and substituted a story that was bland and vanilla. One reviewer called it “The Adequate Stuff”, which is perhaps generous.
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The series - I liked them, aside from one glaring issue - they squeezed every damn political correctness issue there is, into For All Mankind, at times it seemed that its not about race to space, but its about human rights issues, pretty weird in this regard given that Apple is doing this to every movie and tv show that they produce and release, like they cant release anything without trying to appease to virtually everyone out there who might feel butt hurt if their agenda is not included/reflected upon in the show.
Just do the damn art, not virtue signalling pc bs please.
Just do the damn art, not virtue signalling pc bs please.
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I kindo of hated his portrayal of character, thinking that hes not good at it, go figure, because in Altered Carbon he was great in his character!
Not really. There were a lot of random changes that had nothing to do with that “one single change in history”. Like Von Braun being director at JSC instead of MSFC, even before the “one single change”.
And other stuff that just made no sense. For example, I don’t care who you are, you do *not* keep nuclear bomb secrets in a box at home or share them with your friend, even if he has a Top Secret clearance, or pass them on to your daughter. There is no version of history in which that makes sense.
True there were other changes, but none of them were instrumental to creating a logical new timeline. WVB as director made a slight difference, but made for a very compelling interplay with other characters and highlighted a morally gray person who historically played a big part in NASA.
But, the one big massive change of having USSR land on moon first, created an entirely new timeline, where each massive event flowed into the next and made logical sense in how things spiraled out of control and different from our own timeline. I thought it was brilliant and very well thought out. Kudos to Ronald D. Moore.
They evidently didn't appease everyone out there who might feel butt hurt if their agenda is not included/reflected upon in the show.
Show is perfect for me. Not boring at all, because for me the space race is intriguing. The politics, the planning, the risks, and the collective effort of entire nations. It is all captivating.
Yeah the show will be a snoozefest if you are looking for laser swords, shields set to maximum, sexy alien slave girls, or a lone hero being the only person who can save the universe.
Yeah the show will be a snoozefest if you are looking for laser swords, shields set to maximum, sexy alien slave girls, or a lone hero being the only person who can save the universe.
Well I must say sometimes the constant preaching does get a little too forced and tiresome.
anyway, season three: the Lunar War of Independence!
this is great news. While all Apple shows are of high visual and production quality, this is the only one that
would make me renew my subscription.
Although an invisible hand, that ensures political correctness, is clearly perceivable (like in all of
Apples productions), it isn't that bothersome in the end.
would make me renew my subscription.
Although an invisible hand, that ensures political correctness, is clearly perceivable (like in all of
Apples productions), it isn't that bothersome in the end.
YESSSSSSS!!!! YESSSS!!!! I FRIGGIN LOVED THIS SHOW!!!! 5 Seasons!! Please lay it on me, Ronald D. Moore. The end of S1, especially the tension with the cosmonaut hearkened back to Breaking Bad level tension. Very exciting news. Yessir.
So so boring, ridiculous and boring.
Wait. Just hang onto yourself here! There are people that don't know about Moonage Daydream? It ain't easy to believe that. Give it five years and maybe it'll sink in.
On OMR Vinyl, it's almost good enough to be someone's soul love.
idk how Apple can take a subject like space exploration and make it boring, but there ya go