This is my favorite Apple TV+ show. I’ll have to catch it next fall or winter when I sign back up with TV+.
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'For All Mankind' Returning to Apple TV+ for Season 3 on June 10
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I think it's a good show to fictionalize how much more could have been accomplished had the Space Race and Cold War in general been more competitive instead of being dominated by the US in the late '60s and early '70s and a total blow-out by the '80s. There is a little soapy-style relationship drama and modern PC messaging peppered in there, but the space stuff and pinning the fictional timeline to actual historic events makes it interesting. It paces more like a fictionalized "Right Stuff" than an action movie.
Everyone’s finances are their own, but if $5 doesn’t break your bank, enjoy a wonderful series if you have time to watch it. It’s a small price to organize your year around.
This show would be great if they spent more time in space, and less on earth in the bar or having ‘emotional’ scenes
Dissenting voice here. The premise is a cheap attempt to make America feel good about losing the space race, having already felt good about winning the space race. Having your Moon and mining it. I watched Season 1 and found myself rooting for the Russians.
I loved this, right up until the end of season 2. I’d be fine with some Dynasty-style ‘it was all a dream’ backtracking to bring back the pair they killed off so needlessly, but failing that I don’t think I’ll be watching season 3.
I’m excited, but why did you guys do Gordo and Tracy like that ?
The third season of popular Apple TV+ series "For All Mankind" is set to premiere on Friday, June 10, Apple announced today. "For All Mankind" was one of the first Apple TV+ shows made available when the service launched in November 2020, and the space drama has continued to be a hit with viewers.
Created by Ronald D. Moore, "For All Mankind" imagines what the world might be like if the global space race never ended and the space program had remained a priority in the United States. The initial series saw a Russian cosmonaut making it to the moon first, devastating morale at NASA and pushing the U.S. to catch up.
The second season, which came out in February 2021, saw a decade time jump, picking up in 1983 at the height of the cold war with the United States and USSR fighting over resources available on the moon.
Season three introduces a second time jump, moving on to the early 1990s where the US and the Soviet Union are racing to get to Mars.
Joel Kinnaman, Shantel VanSanten, Jodi Balfour, Sonya Walger, Krys Marshall, Cynthy Wu, Casey Johnson, Coral Peña and Wrenn Schmidt are all returning for season three.
The first episode of season three will debut on Friday, June 10, and then one new episode will follow on each subsequent Friday.
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one of the best shows on TV+, have been looking forward to the new season for a really long while...
race to Mars, soviets vs USA vs a unexpected entrant.
Does this mean Steve Jobs, space visionary?
Does this mean Steve Jobs, space visionary?
“Star Trek: Discovery“ (the most woke, despite its sexually suggestive acronym) thru Mel Brooks “Space Balls”.
We've really enjoyed it. Love the references to Sea Dragon - I loved that they dug that one out of the NASA archives. It's TV so some of the sciences is suspect - and that's OK. Most people on the internet focus on the "duct tape" incident (no spoilers here) - funny thing is the science backs it up. The one part that there is zero explanation of: the shuttles getting to the moon? Not the nuclear one - but the regular shuttles. There's been a lot of discussion about how that's basically impossible..... Still, its a great show - can't wait for Season 3
The explanation is that they wanted to feature the space shuttle because it was iconic and people have a connection to it. It also saved them money in using real footage than cgi.
In an alternate history the real space shuttle may have been able to go to the moon. It may have looked different from the one that existed. However, the producers didn’t want to design a realistic moon capable shuttle because of budget and people would not connect to it like the real one.
I think they are good reasons for their decisions.
Those few episodes are to get the audience emotionally involved with the characters. It's what makes you think about the last episodes you watched and crave for the next one.
Can't have momentum from the beginning of the season, otherwise it wouldn't be called momentum. It needs to be like a rollercoaster: starts slow, then fast, then slow again and fast, etc. (Except for the Aerosmith Rock'n'Rollercoaster, which I hate for being a one flatliner neck breaking speed beast).
My Amazon Prime subscription will end a few months after my Apple TV+ sub. I'm NOT going to renew b/c . I'm told I really should squeeze that in, so I'll be doing that in addition to wrapping up a few other things on their video service
Their ads are out there (I recall seeing one for Greyhound at some point). They just don't oversaturate the "airwaves" like Geico and others (at least these are ones I've really noticed on YouTube, SS (streaming services) with ads, and general internet ads). However, I've largely ignored ATV+ all this time because I just assumed you needed an Apple device to watch them. It wasn't until I got a new iPad that I looked into watching it through a web browser on a PC as an option! Was disappointed that doing it this way has no way to access your "up next"/watchlist, but they did add that recently. Still no search feature :\ Not much else to discuss, but navigate here if you're so inclined....
Wow... no search function nor ability to view "Up Next" in the browser
You need the Apple TV app to do so. No reason they couldn't have implemented this feature (I guess to push you to get an iDevice?). I don't want to have to grab my iPad every time I want to view my watchlist. Those who want to get into Apple TV+ without any Apple devices will be completely...
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I can afford it (financially), but these days, time is the major bottleneck. I'm fine with rotating in and out SS. Having 1 or 2 major ones at a time is really more than sufficient for my needs (one main reason I'll be dropping Amazon Prime), although TBH, I can always stand to save the money as well.
I was psyched to finally be able to get into ATV+, but I'm also eager to get back to the likes of Disney+, Hulu, and to check out Netflix