And so we begin a brand new journey...TO THE STARS! (also please excuse my lack of historical knowledge, okay, I never claimed to be smart when it comes to space/science 😅) xxx
So, I can give you all the historical context you need in like 2 sentences; in reality, the U.S. landed on the moon first, the space race with the Soviets ended when the Russians gave up, and the US space program essentially stalled for arguably 15-20 years. In this show, the Russians get their first, and the race never ends.
The main reason for the end of the space race in general was not only US winning the moon but The Soviet Union never reaching it, at least by their own means.
I'm here for this. Just as I was for Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica! And here we are with another one of his character-driven creations. For All Mankind is truly underrated. Sure, it's a slow start. But it does accelerate and offers a truly wonderful alternate history of the past 50 years. When I heard that they exactly recreated the entire Mission Control Room from 1969 I thought "OK, this is a serious show."
Cool, I'm glad you're reviewing this. It's a deep and great show that doesn't get nearly enough attention because "it's Apple." But I enjoyed the hell out of it.
I only have a basic knowledge of our space history, and really enjoyed the show! I did occasionally look up random events to see if they really happened or not.
So some backstory, the guy with the "Failure is not an option" speech is Gene Krantz(whom is still alive today), he's played by Ed Harris in the "Apollo 13" movie where he also had a "Failure is not an option" speech.
It was recently announced that not only is this show getting a fifth season (of the seven that the crew have always planned for) but also a spinoff showing the Soviet side of everything. One of my favorite parts starting out was that the focus on America with no real idea what the other side was doing meant the show didn't have to get bogged down in exactly what changed in history to allow them to get to the moon first and we could instead just jump right into the story, but at this point I'm definitely all for going back to it.
