Apple TV+ Show 'For All Mankind' Renewed for Fourth Season

[sevoneone]

This show is why I have kept ATV+ subscription. I will be a downer though and claim it should have ended with a colony on Mars at the end of series three. No series4.

Keep a show going too long and the writers run out of ideas, it descends into soap and lame political statements about modern concerns (always a risk with Californians) and the ratings drop off until it dies a sad, pathetic death. Keep the story tight, and end it when complete. Start again with a completely different story.

Think about how sad and drawn out the end was of The Big Bang Theory.

I believe the writers have said they have the storyline mapped out to 7 seasons, so I think they have a an ending already planned. I think this will be like Babylon 5 and the Expanse which are excellent show because the show runners had a definitive beginning, middle and possible endings planned.

Better than BSG? Blasphemous…

Ron D. Moore basically helped invent serial story telling in sci-fi TV with the later seasons of Deep Space Nine. Battlestar was the first major outing. For All Mankind is not perfect, but it is clearly very well thought out and produced.

Agree on part of this. The whole drugs thing seems pretty pointless and just a distraction.

In terms of technology its based off of what NASA's plans were after Apollo (they were planning human landings on Mars in the 1980s but had no money to do it). Because the space race never ended in this timeline Nasa's got a massive budget. Everything they're doing in the season was the future plans of NASA if they'd had the funding so it's not too unplausible technology wise.

The constant "and then something went wrong" stuff is obviously very much not something you'd see with NASA given how cautious they are as an organisation.

Yeah, the drug thing is pushing it. I get they’re trying to sell the private entity in space isn’t as regimented or watchful as NASA, but it would at minimum still be someone’s job to dole out and keep track of the medical supplies.

The people squawking about how impossible the technology/launch cadence in the show is bug me… I don’t think people realize how little removed the space technology we’re using today in 2022 is from the 70s and how much room and time there has been and still is for advancement. Think about how many people firmly believed that it was impossible to land and reuse a rocket booster the entire time Space X was trying.

I think the show is a little aspirational, but I don’t think it is that far off of what could have been accomplished if NASA had the budget and the political crap like pork barrel spending and cost plus contracts had played less of a role in the US space program.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I don't understand why the show is so all over the place on tech ...

The "Apple newton" video calling is just .... really odd

 

[rpmurray]

I recommend reading the book How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming.

I'll give it a read, but it better have a really big reality distortion field to overcome my bias.

 

[rpmurray]

The constant "and then something went wrong" stuff is obviously very much not something you'd see with NASA given how cautious they are as an organisation.

Yeah, about those two space shuttles ...

I think this will be like Babylon 5 and the Expanse which are excellent show because the show runners had a definitive beginning, middle and possible endings planned.

I remember they said the same thing about Lost, with the producers claiming they had it all mapped out and it definitely wasn't what everyone was guessing, and then the ending turned out to be what everyone was guessing, only dumber.

 

[Rick Ornberg]

Watched all three seasons and have enjoyed them and looking forward to season four. One thing, though. It should have been titled FOR ALL WOMANKIND.

 

[Canyda]

I was joking with a friend that you can almost see For All Mankind as a prequel to The Expanse. The recent episodes on Mars really bring that home too.

I'd be totally fine with that.

 

[shadow puppet]

Joel Kinnaman's dog Zoe is stealing the spotlight at a ComicCon photo op. #bellyrubmooch

https://twitter.com/x/status/1550938747255934976

 

[Reason077]

Severance best show ever

Absolutely! Severance, Foundation, and Mythic Quest are by far my top three out of everything on Apple TV+.

 

[chucker23n1]

I don't understand why the show is so all over the place on tech ...

The "Apple newton" video calling is just .... really odd

How so? It’s a reality where some tech got pushed further due to a continued space race. That’s all.

 

[japanime]

I mean… yes? An article about season 4 should briefly explain seasons 1-3.

I disagree. This first sentence said enough:

""For All Mankind" imagines what the world might be like if the global space race had never ended and the space program had remained a priority in the United States."

 

[DeepIn2U]

I'm midway through season 2 - great show!

Its always been a wicked show ... S1 threads too many didn't like nor catch on by not giving it a full open minded chance.

It'll grow.

Joel Kinnaman really comes into his own as an actor in this series. previous performances like Netflix S1 of Altered Carbon showed promise, prior Suicide Cop really was a leap backwards in his acting capabilities, and Robocop reboot, although great for nerds like me and nostalgia emphasizing how cool an old concept done right to modern day was mostly just Fx's ... there is a scene that just really shows what his potential is even if its less than 5mins on screen (the Robocop dis-assembly scene - 'jesus christ, there's nothing left')

From that scene and into S2 of For All Mankind you really begin to see what this actor is capable of. going to finish S2 tomorrow and get back into this.

 

[CWallace]

I'd love to see Season 4 be in the 2000s with manned missions to Jupiter or Saturn.

 

[danny842003]

I’ve really enjoyed it. It’s one show we always watch weekly as it releases.

 

[AjTee]

I like this serial the most.

 

[siddavis]

I just watched S3 E6 last night. I couldn’t sleep, so I then rewatched the very first episode of the series. I just can’t see how anyone could objectively say S3 is anywhere near as good. (And I don’t really think the first episode was that great.)

I am clearly in the minority here, but S3 has been a disappointment.

 

[chucker23n1]

I disagree. This first sentence said enough:

""For All Mankind" imagines what the world might be like if the global space race had never ended and the space program had remained a priority in the United States."

Which is also a spoiler if you haven’t watched the pilot.

 

[mhughes]

I do not get the acclaim for S3. I loved S1/S2 but this season is just ... bad. The acting was never amazing but the melodrama and acting has overshadowed any of the excitement about space. *SPOILERS* They are on a a new planet and there has been like two seconds of the characters actually being excited about that. The show has just turned into an office melodrama with them hanging out in their ginormous habitats. I know not every detail needs to be right but the fact that the Moon habitats were smaller drove the story ("hi bob"). They somehow shipped a freaking hotel into space and then landed a small hotel on Mars. Oh and they also packed a Texas-sized water drill "just in case" they found water. And the whole plot between Danny, Karen, and Ed is just so boring and played out and poorly written. I will finish the season but it's gotten laughably bad. Episode one was great and the event that occurred en-route to Mars was good. But I go 20 minutes in an episode forgetting this is about space. The Danny plotline is similarly painful to watch. The Ellen/Larry (can someone fix his hairpiece please) is similarly bad.

 

[mhughes]

I just watched S3 E6 last night. I couldn’t sleep, so I then rewatched the very first episode of the series. I just can’t see how anyone could objectively say S3 is anywhere near as good. (And I don’t really think the first episode was that great.)

I am clearly in the minority here, but S3 has been a disappointment.

To say the least. It's pretty awful with a few truly exciting moments sprinkled in.

 

[turbineseaplane]

The Danny plotline

…needs to end

I am absolutely exhausted with that

 

[Damian83]

Love this show and wish it would keep going after four seasons. But the magic for me was the nostalgic feelings it brought from the NASA moon landing days to the current season. I would imagine the future seasons may be more sci-fi and be similar to other shows. I don't know but every time I watch this show it really gives me the feels. Just imagining if we truly did continue the space program where we would actually be.

In a capsule on a red postapocalyptic desert? No, thanks, earth is enough for me

 

[turbineseaplane]

How so? It’s a reality where some tech got pushed further due to a continued space race. That’s all.

Because it is at odds with the exact same type of tech all over the ships (the displays and related computing tech)

Making artificial gravity hotels and going to mars to drill for water…and our video conferencing tech is stuck in the past?

Makes zero sense.
Simply not believable that one piece of very parallel tech would stagnate like that.

 

[mazz0]

I was joking with a friend that you can almost see For All Mankind as a prequel to The Expanse. The recent episodes on Mars really bring that home too.

Yeah, a friend and I have said the same thing

 

[chucker23n1]

and our video conferencing tech is stuck in the past?

Except it’s not? In the actual 1994, video conferencing barely existed. In alt-1994, it’s commonly used, at least at NASA. How is that “stuck in the past”?

 

[Lioness~]

I wonder if the Mars planetary energy will provoke certain things in an alien species?
If so, will be interesting how far that plot will go……?

 

[Sayewhat]

Putting it on the list to watch next week