For All Mankind season 5 delivers one of the most compelling and tense seasons of the show to date as conflicts heat up and power hangs in the balance
For All Mankind season 5 delivers one of the most compelling and tense seasons of the show to date as conflicts heat up and power hangs in the balance
The machismo is deconstructed, but the American chauvinism is real - they can’t even stick to the premise of the USSR/Soviets being a more credible antagonist to drive the space race forward. They give the US loads of tech upgrades from the space race, but the USSR does not get the same upgrades despite doing the same thing.
The worldbuilding aspects are also kind of weak, with weird Final Destination-esque setpieces, and implausible political-economic just-so-stories to get main characters where the story wants them to be.
All in all, I found it unbearably shallow.
The first episodes of Star City have just been released, AFAIK it’s a spin-off that is supposed to show stuff from the soviet side. Haven’t watched it yet though, so I can’t say much about it.