******TITAN-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Apple TV’s “For All Mankind” nearly lost me with its surprisingly reactionary 4th season, which saw the demotion and humiliation of its stronger women characters, such as Margo Madison (Wrenn Schmidt), who is brutally imprisoned, while astronaut Danielle Poole (Krys Marshall) was shot, and exiled from Mars after a revolt at the end…
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AppleTV’s “For All Mankind” season 4; what goes up, must come down…
******ASTEROID-SIZED SPOILERS!****** I’d like to reiterate my tremendous love for Ron Moore’s “For All Mankind”; it’s a brilliant alternate-reality series, which repeatedly demonstrates a healthy respect for authentic space science as well. The characters (past and present) are deeply compelling, with issues of sexism and racism left largely in humanity’s rear-view mirror as it begins…
For All Mankind, S4E2: “Have a Nice Sol” chronicles the Martians…
*****PHOBOS-SIZED SPOILERS!***** I wasn’t planning to do episode-by-episode recap/reviews of entire TV shows anymore (as I used to do with each new episode of Star Trek), because they reduce the overall time I have for other equally compelling topics. My new modus operandi for this column is to only highlight an interesting episode every now…
For All Mankind, S4.E1; “Glasnost” takes the series into a very different 21st century…
*****HELIOS-SIZED SPOILERS!***** The AppleTV series “For All Mankind” returns for a 4th year, time-jumping from season 3’s alternate-1990s into an alternate-2003. In this road-not-taken future, where the Russians beat Americans to the moon in 1969, manned spaceflight has rapidly turned commonplace, with the Moon and Mars offering 21st century gold rushes to those with the…