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For All Mankind is back to rewriting history for the worse in a second season. On top of being sexist and bigoted, NASA is now apparently racist even to its black astronauts.
The series follows an alternative history where the Soviet Union reached the moon before the United States in 1969. This ignited a space race that altered many historical events and continued for years. The March 12 episode “Pathfinder” then sees NASA planning a new mission all the way in the mid-1980’s.
Danielle (Krys Marshall), an astronaut for season 1, is looking to command the latest trip, but she faces obstacles in the form of her old mission partner turned superior Ed Baldwin (Joel Kinnaman). While he may have actual reasons not to put her in charge of a space mission, the scene quickly boils down to racism. As in, NASA was fine with her being the “token Black girl,” but refuses to put her in a higher position because of her skin color. Once again, the series thinks the most im