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
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Alternative history drama For All Mankind returns for season two. Moving forward in time to the 1980s, it sees the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States intensify as the moonbase expands.
The second season of
For All Mankind raised weighty issues for Kiwi actor Michael Dorman. The sci-fi drama centres on what would have happened if it was a Russian astronaut – and not American Neil Armstrong – who took those first historic steps on the Moon in 1969. The first season rewrote modern American history while also chronicling the less-than-perfect lives of a group of US astronauts who were involved in trying to put their country back on top in the space race.
Alternate-history drama For All Mankind speeds forward in time, to a tense 80s Cold War on the moon.
In an age of many different shows about the past and present of the space program, Apple s entry, For All Mankind, has been one of the more creatively successful ones. The show, created by Battlestar Galactica veteran Ron Moore along with Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi is an alternate history take on the Apollo program, one that combines familiar tropes of the genre with some intriguing historical what-ifs.
The first season, set between the late 60s and early 70s, explored what might have happened if the Soviets beat the U.S. to the moon and the space race had continued for much longer. The premise followed that idea down several fun historical rabbit holes, such as Ted Kennedy, after skipping that fateful trip to Chappaquiddick, getting elected president in 1972.