*****SOYUZ-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Apple TV’s “For All Mankind” presents a more cosmically expansive, inclusive alternate-present for America than the one we’re currently enduring in our own timeline, and it’s all based on a simple premise; what if the Soviet Union beat the United States to the first manned lunar landing in 1969? In this series’ reality,…
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Apple TV’s “Star City”; unpacking the Soviet sidequel to “For All Mankind”…
******ROCKET-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Debuting in November of 2019, “For All Mankind” was created by veteran TV writer/executive producer Ronald D. Moore, best known for the critically-acclaimed reboot of “Battlestar Galactica” (2003-2009), along with coproducers/writers Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert. The series was hung on a deceptively simple premise; what if the Soviets had beaten the Americans…