Spoilers For All Mankind

[Morrus]

Anybody watch this?

I kinda blocked off the first season a few years ago, but recently binged all four seasons and have no idea why I bounced off it.

The seasons are each set a decade apart—70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, etc.

I liked them in descending order. I guess that 70s NASA vibe and moon race stuff has more romanticism than the fictional Mars base they have by s4. Also the show by necessity has to use a lot more CGI as the seasons go on, and age up lots of characters with mixed results.

There’s a s5 coming. I figure Joel Kinnaman’s character must have retired by that point…

 

[Sepulchrave II]

I loved S1, and, like you, enjoyed each successive season less than the previous. Still worth watching, though.

S5 promises a Martian secession, so might be pretty cool.

 

[Morrus]

I loved S1, and, like you, enjoyed each successive season less than the previous. Still worth watching, though.

S5 promises a Martian secession, so might be pretty cool.

I think for me the further it goes, the further it moves from the romantic image of pioneering space exploration at NASA to generic sci-fi, and it loses something along the way. Going to the moon in tin cans while people back home smoked and wrote equations on whiteboards in the 1970s, with all the period costumes, cars, sets... while it's becoming more a CGI space drama now. Which I get--the premise is that it goes through the decades, but obviously as the decades pass and it drifts further and further away from 'reality' it loses that vibe it started with.

 

[Riley]

I loved S1, and, like you, enjoyed each successive season less than the previous. Still worth watching, though.

S5 promises a Martian secession, so might be pretty cool.

For anyone who might enjoy a future history podcast, Mike Duncan recently stretched out on his long running Revolutions history podcast to tell the history of the Martian Revolution. I really enjoyed it

11.0- Welcome to the Martian Revolution

Podcast Episode · Revolutions · S12 E2 · 6m

podcasts.apple.com

 

[Belen]

@Alenda and I love it.