I’m watching For All Mankind season 4 after a rewatch of season 1-3.
For those who aren’t familiar with the show, it’s an alternative history drama about the world if the space race didn’t end with each season being about a decade removed from the previous one and taking place across months to years at a time. Created by Ronald D. Moore (writer for TNG and DS9, showrunner for BSG remake and Caprica). It’s also really cool because between seasons they have little shorts, one per year, that keep the viewer informed of what’s happening in the news or culture across the years in between. Despite being a relatively dry concept, the show does something similar to Rome the HBO series where it does POV characters from across social strata: including everything from to a family of a janitor working at NASA with a brilliant daughter, to the families of astronauts, the team at NASA, the astronauts themselves, to the upper echelons of government.
Season 1: 1969-1974, focuses on the moon race, exploration, establishing the first moon base.
Season 2: 1983, focuses on the major political events of this era and the height of the Cold War, as well as expansion of the moon base and the struggle to expand the space program even more, to reach Mars. This season is more character based than the others.
Season 3: 1992-1996, is about the Mars race and the establishment of the Mars base while expanding moon industry. Privately run space firms emerge, and the industrialization of the moon.
Season 4: 2003-????, only one episode is out, so far it has just laid the foundation for the season, although asteroids will have a lot to do with it. The Mars base has expanded into small town and they’re bringing up 50 new colonists a year. They were attempting to bring an asteroid from the asteroid belt into Mars orbit, presumably for mining purposes.
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