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
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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
Tracy’s journey is a bit like the experience of watching the new season itself.
For All Mankind is stronger and more confident overall than it was in its first year. Still, as the show
gets farther into its alternate history where Russia beats America to the first moon landing, inspiring an endless Cold War in space there are draggy moments that represent the more frustrating parts of the streaming era’s “a series is just a 10-hour movie” syndrome. But then it all somehow comes together, in two of the most thrilling and poignant episodes of television I’ve watched in a long time.