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The last episode of season one was Awesome !
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'For All Mankind' Season 2 Filming Again Underway
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Yay! This and Mythic Quest are definitely my favourites so far on AppleTV+
Such a waste, this show. Great concept brought down by poor writing. The characters are boring and the first season rushes through so many very emotional events, but as a viewer we don't really care. We don't know these characters well enough to care.
Even worse, though, is the squandered opportunity to explore what America (and the world) would have been like had the Russians really pulled ahead in the space race. Oddly enough, the Russians are hardly in the show and they don't even function well as a boogeyman.
The first season covers like 10 years, yet we rarely get a glimpse outside of the same few sets: astronaut homes, mission control, lunar landers, and the local bar. The glimpses of TV news giving us tidbits of information about the show's alternate timeline is pure laziness as well. I guess they had to do something because the rest of the show doesn't feel like it belongs in an alternate timeline at all.
When it comes to alternate timeline shows, Man in the High Castle did a great job of creating the alternate America. We experienced it. We got to see Macy's in NYC at Christmas all decked out in Nazi holiday decorations. We experienced a different kind of "American" and we understood how this person came to be.
For All Mankind does none of this. It lazily moves from one hot button social issue (women in space! racism! closeted gay people in a marriage of convenience!) to another. It asks us to believe that this is a different America from the one we experienced growing up (those of us old enough anyway), yet does virtually nothing to create that different America on the screen short of a few TV news snippets.
The show's execution feels familiar. The look. The astronauts in sports cars. The ensemble cast. The rousing music when our characters overcome adversity and mission control cheers. Wait, haven't I seen this somewhere before? Many times. I'm sure the second season will be just as dull and derivative as the first.
Even worse, though, is the squandered opportunity to explore what America (and the world) would have been like had the Russians really pulled ahead in the space race. Oddly enough, the Russians are hardly in the show and they don't even function well as a boogeyman.
The first season covers like 10 years, yet we rarely get a glimpse outside of the same few sets: astronaut homes, mission control, lunar landers, and the local bar. The glimpses of TV news giving us tidbits of information about the show's alternate timeline is pure laziness as well. I guess they had to do something because the rest of the show doesn't feel like it belongs in an alternate timeline at all.
When it comes to alternate timeline shows, Man in the High Castle did a great job of creating the alternate America. We experienced it. We got to see Macy's in NYC at Christmas all decked out in Nazi holiday decorations. We experienced a different kind of "American" and we understood how this person came to be.
For All Mankind does none of this. It lazily moves from one hot button social issue (women in space! racism! closeted gay people in a marriage of convenience!) to another. It asks us to believe that this is a different America from the one we experienced growing up (those of us old enough anyway), yet does virtually nothing to create that different America on the screen short of a few TV news snippets.
The show's execution feels familiar. The look. The astronauts in sports cars. The ensemble cast. The rousing music when our characters overcome adversity and mission control cheers. Wait, haven't I seen this somewhere before? Many times. I'm sure the second season will be just as dull and derivative as the first.
Good! I loved season one, hopefully Season 2 of the other shows also come out on time in November
Love the show.. the tension keeps building up... looking forward to it !!!
It does have the potential, a big potential, to be better season by season as we’re getting into the future. Very excited for this series.
I really did not like this show, with the length of time that went by I thought they had moved onto something better! Imagine my surprise to hear part 2 being filmed so long after part 1 bombed.
Yup, I never used 'mankind', having taken an instant dislike to that usage since I was a little girl. Has always been 'humankind' for me.
Season 2 was being filmed quite a while ago and was almost done when filming had to stop due to the pandemic. It's just that it's now resuming to finish up the couple of remaining episodes of season 2.
Found this series a chore and gave up.
I also noticed the woke nod with noble Russia putting up a woman astronaut while the poor oppressed US receptionist watches in envy. Communism is the way to go for equality don’t you know. Just can’t help themselves with the messaging everywhere.
I also noticed the woke nod with noble Russia putting up a woman astronaut while the poor oppressed US receptionist watches in envy. Communism is the way to go for equality don’t you know. Just can’t help themselves with the messaging everywhere.
I don’t get that vibe (about wokeness). The 1st female astronaut in space was actually Russian, in 1968 so to me the show was just being realistic.
I also thought it was a play to that legendary myth of a lost female cosmonaut as well. Here if you’re interested
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True story? Hardly. The coronavirus is fake news. All that coronavirus “news” footage you see is also filmed on the moon.
In a couple of years, the last episode could be placed around 1995 with an Eagle flying over head featured from the show Space 1999 to a moon base being constructed. Apple gets the rights to do a reboot of Space 1999.
Thankfully Apple isn't just making shows for you. Critics and viewers would certainly disagree that it "bombed".
I think you’re reading far too much into this. As matrix07, they’re just reflecting what happened in reality. The basis of the show is ‘how would the US respond if Russia landed a human on the moon first?’. The show takes the logical route that in that situation, the US try to have an answer for every move the Soviets made, *including* their own female astronauts.
It's an alternate reality. Why is it plausible to you that Russia landed on the moon first, but not that equality has progressed more?
Your complaint feels a bit like saying that MASH largely ignored the war going on around it by staying focused on the activities in the hospital; Korea Patrol was a much better film because it showed the war. The thing is these are two very different stories. MASH also seemed overly focused on "hot-button social issues" which is a bizarre dismissal of some of the most significant events of our time. I accept that For All Mankind is not the show you want to see but what you are asking for is not relevant to the story. As an editor I would have cut the scenes you are asking for because they do not add to the story being told.
I can't refute your criticisms about not developing an "alternate America", but I still like the show. No where near the appeal of High Castle. A shame that one had to end. Another quite worthy SF show, IMHO, is The Expanse.