exactly. desperate astronaut-wifes. plus dumbing down nasa to a videogame. with all serousity, the first handful episodes were totally legit. but they lost me at tokyo drift style space manoeuvres.
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Apple Shares Trailer for Second Season of 'For All Mankind'
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That's what I thought but I had to give it a chance. By the end of the 3rd episode I was hooked.
It’s interesting that the flyover used at the beginning of the trailer is footage taken recently. You can see Saturn V “enclosed” when it used to be in the open environment. Also the high-rise condo in the background was build on the 2000’s.
...It’s the little things?
...It’s the little things?
Yeah it started well, but got boring and annoying for sure. I'll probably have a poke at season 2, but if it's the same, I'll likely abandon it.
I wasn't excited about this from the initial trailers, but damn the show really grabbed and held my interest when I finally watched it.
Currently it's the only thing I would have paid to see on ATV+, but now I don't have to with the extension!
Currently it's the only thing I would have paid to see on ATV+, but now I don't have to with the extension!
I really liked this show. I suggested it in my family's TV show recommendation group chat, and my parents watched it and were actually offended at the possibility that Russians beat Americans to the moon, and how it represented President Nixon.
He hit me with the "It'd be like a TV show rewriting history and making Obama out to be a bad guy."
But Nixon was a bad guy... like he was a bad, corrupt president. And I wouldn't have a problem with them fictionalizing President Obama in a fictional television show. If there's a show in the future about how China bails us out of the Great Recession and it turns President Obama into an incapable idiot who blunders the entire thing... I wouldn't care one bit, as long as the entertainment was good.
Obviously my father and I don't align politically lol
He hit me with the "It'd be like a TV show rewriting history and making Obama out to be a bad guy."
But Nixon was a bad guy... like he was a bad, corrupt president. And I wouldn't have a problem with them fictionalizing President Obama in a fictional television show. If there's a show in the future about how China bails us out of the Great Recession and it turns President Obama into an incapable idiot who blunders the entire thing... I wouldn't care one bit, as long as the entertainment was good.
Obviously my father and I don't align politically lol
Season One was a good start, but HOLY MOLY, the trailer for Season Two looks promising!
No. It’s the show that’s based on the premise that the Soviets had an enduring lead over the US in the space race.
Not only that, but some of the risks that NASA took in real life and won become tragic losses in the show.
The Soviets become not only the first nation to put a man on the moon, but follow quickly with a woman too.
Nasa are caught in a loop of trying to continually out-do the Soviets - they might be first, but the US want to do it bigger. Hence the response to a Soviet woman on the moon is to rapidly bring women into the astronaut program and make them more than a one-off novelty.
There’s a believable logic to it, and it has nothing to do with shoehorning representation if that’s what you’re implying.
Really enjoyed the first season — hoping they still stick to some actual events.
It's funny I just started watching Sons of Anarchy and saw the character Polly and kept thinking "she looks familiar."
Then it hit me that it's Sarah Jones — just 15 years earlier from For All Mankind. She hasn't aged!!
It's funny I just started watching Sons of Anarchy and saw the character Polly and kept thinking "she looks familiar."
Then it hit me that it's Sarah Jones — just 15 years earlier from For All Mankind. She hasn't aged!!
Yes, I think it’s quite believable that Russia would have quickly put women on the moon. (They did after all put Velentina Tereshkova in Earth orbit in 1963.) I don’t think NASA/USA would have wanted to appear behind, so the continuation of the Space Race would have been very likely.
I’m looking forward to Season 2.
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Watched S1E1 yesterday and ... it was fine. I’m a space nerd so I liked those parts but my wife, whose knowledge of the space race is virtually zero didn’t enjoy it as the premise of the show is very much based on knowing something on how the space race happened so you can appreciate the differences in this alternative timeline.
Not a show we are likely to keep on watching.
Not a show we are likely to keep on watching.