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season two brought viewers into the go-go ’80s or rather, series creators Ronald D. Moore, Ben Nedivi, and Matt Wolpert’s collective vision of the early ’80s. D-mail and video conferencing keep people connected, but Ronald Reagan’s still president. The cold war still grips both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., but Black women like Dani Poole (Krys Marshall) are veteran astronauts. In its second season,
For All Mankind captures the oft-glacial pace of change, while still firing up viewers for what’s to come including the roughly 80-minute finale. “The Grey” will reveal what’s going on at the Jamestown lunar camp, which just last week was breached by Soviet cosmonauts in search of their injured comrade who recently received asylum from the U.S. government. Tense stuff!
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Considering everything that has transpired around the world in the past year or so, it makes perfect sense that TV and streaming schedules are currently about as straightforward and dependable as rolling dice in space. This obviously isn t a hugely important issue in the grand scheme of things, but there s definitely mental comfort to be found in regularly scheduled escapism. Despite all the constant hiatuses and shortened episode counts, though, April-June still looms large as TV Finale Time, with tons of big shows such as Disney+ s
Late April 2021 TV Finales
While the early weeks in April did feature some noteworthy season finales for shows like
season two leaps 10 years forward from the events of the season-one finale, landing in a world where a woman (Wrenn Schmidt as Margo Madison) heads up NASA and Black women like Danielle Poole (Krys Marshall) are veteran astronauts. But this alternate history, created for Apple TV Plus by Ronald D. Moore, Ben Nedivi, and Matt Wolpert, isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. The Cold War is still heating up, but the Moon is a potential new battlefront, especially now that both the U.S. and Russia have set up lunar camps.
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Things are also tense on the homefront, as President Ronald Reagan, already in his second term, looks to further beef up defense systems. On a more personal note, Gordo Stevens (Michael Dorman) and Tracy Stevens (Sarah Jones), who have been divorced for some time, are still dealing with the end of their marriage. Tracy is now a public figure in her own right, and is well out of the shadow of “Astro-Wife.” Gordo, meanwhile, may not be logging any more ex