For All Mankind Season 2 Review: Lunar Cold War Heats Up
It’s 1983, and the Moon is getting militarised. By Akhil Arora | Updated: 19 February 2021 09:00 IST
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Highlights
A total of 10 episodes, dropping weekly until April 23
Joel Kinnaman, Wrenn Schmidt lead For All Mankind cast
For All Mankind season 2 premiering February 19 on Apple TV+ worldwide continues to explore the ripple effects of the Soviets putting a man (and a woman) on the Moon before the Americans. In some ways, it created a better, equitable world in the USA. Women enjoy a better position at NASA (in spacesuits and in the boardroom) and in society (the Equal Rights Amendment actually got ratified), though the same can t be said about race relations. And as the For All Mankind season 1 post-credits scene revealed, NASA s Sea Dragon dream a two-stage rocket conceptualised in the ‘60s as the pathway to manned Mars missions before funding was scrapped
Late-hour thrills and hard-won progress fuel season 2 of For All Mankind Danette Chavez
Early in its first season, the sci-fi drama
For All Mankind sparked as much wonder with its stunning visuals as its revisionist premise: a world in which an early setback in the space race fueled technological innovation along with social change in the United States. As the season unfolded, the series remained too tied to established history to really take flight. Progress moved in leaps and bounds at Mission Control and in NASA labs, as astronauts like Ed Baldwin (Joel Kinnaman), Gordo Stevens (Michael Dorman), Danielle Poole (Krys Marshall), and Ellen Waverly (Jodi Balfour) set up a lunar camp before season’s end. But more sweeping changes, including a shift in focus to characters like Danielle, who were sidelined by NASA in our timeline, remained merely on the horizon. And the alternate history crafted by Ronald D. Moore and his co-creators, Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert, m
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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.