This made me happy. I was concerned the renewal was taking too long…
Edited to add: Spin off showing the FAM space race from the Soviet side!! Bonus smile!!
for all mankind is like watching a badly written soap opera at 2x speed but twice per season there is some kind of huge space catastrophe and a bunch of astronauts die
in other words, it’s compulsive viewing
S3 got a little bonkers in how soapy it leaned, but generally speaking, FAM is awesome. Glad to see Apple is sticking with it.
Season 3 was good, the race to Mars was a lot of fun. But Danny was SUCH DEAD WEIGHT.
Season 4 tightened things up again. Even though we got another mopey white guy, it was much easier to deal with and he actually did some cool stuff.
This is one of my favorite shows. I love the accidents in space. They fucking kill some astronauts
I swear to god Apple TV is driven entirely based off what Apple Executives like to watch on their downtime
I can’t remember why I stopped watching this
The entire first season is more alt-history than sci-fi, and that can take some of the wind out of your sails. The ratio changes slowly over time, but they’re trying to at least plausibly start with our world, circa 1965, as a jumping off point to fork the timeline (I think the conceit is some key soviet scientist and administrator who died in real life survives here and quietly keeps them on track).
