Radical optimism on the island
Lindy Hume’s third and final curation of the Ten Days on the Island festival was an exercise in 'radical optimism'.
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Lindy Hume’s third and final curation of the Ten Days on the Island festival was an exercise in 'radical optimism'.
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 lo...