Rolling Stone ‘For All Mankind’ Season Two Finale Takes One Giant Leap
Seemingly meandering subplots are tied together with precision in an action-packed and moving conclusion
By Apple
full spoilers for Season Two of Apple TV+’s For All Mankind
. If you want to know more about the season without being spoiled, read our pre-season review.
“I started jogging again.”
This sentence is uttered by astronaut Gordo Stevens (Michael Dornan) midway through the Season Two finale of
For All Mankind, the Apple TV+ series depicting an alternate history where the Soviets landed on the moon first, triggering a never-ending space race. Gordo’s statement will likely not go down in the annals of quotable dramatic television with “I
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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!