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For All Mankind is a show I have never seen, but everyone who watches it tells me I really should give it a try.
It was created by Battlestar Galactica supremo Ronald D. Moore, alongside Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi. It tells the story of an alternate history depicting what would have happened if the global space race had never ended after the Soviet Union succeeded in the first crewed Moon landing ahead of the United States.
Instead of becoming an endless cycle of satellite launches and space tourists, the space race became a blizzard of moonbases and off-world colonies in the solar system. Back on Earth the supercharged technological battle for supremacy has dramatic effects, with the early adoption of electric vehicles, civilian fusion power, controlled CO2 production, and no global warming / climate crisis agenda.
The point of divergence is Sergei Korolev, who was the father of the Soviet space program. The USSR was beating the USA in every way in the space race until, in 1966, he died during an operation in Moscow.
After that point, the Soviet Moon program failed to coalesce. In the reality of the show, Korolev lived, and the Soviet moon landing happened before the USA.
Each subsequent season takes place about a decade later, with season two taking place in the 1980s, season three taking place in the 1990s, and season four taking place in the 2000s.
Now, Apple TV+ has locked in a March 27th premiere for the fifth season of For All Mankind. They announced the date with the release of a new, short teaser:
The fifth season is set some years after the events of season 4, which concluded with the heist of a valuable asteroid. Happy Valley has grown into a thriving colony with thousands of residents and a base for new missions further into the solar system, but tensions are developing with the governments of Earth, and relations are becoming frayed between the Red Planet and humanity’s original home.
Joel Kinnaman, Toby Kebbell, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, Coral Peña, and Wrenn Schmidt return, alongside Mirelle Enos, Costa Ronin, Sean Kaufman, Ruby Cruz, Ines Asserson, Barrett Carnahan, and Tyler Labine.
The show will drop weekly.
Maybe I save this for a huge binge watch after the spring, when all the decent winter television viewing dries up, and I usually find myself staring, blank-eyed, at some property renovation show and being told:
“Hugo is an unemployed social worker, and Poppy teaches basket weaving to Peruvian orphans, their budget is $1.3 million…”
…and wondering where the hell everything went wrong for me.
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