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Stepping Star: "For All Mankind" became in the second season one of the most impressive series on television
The Apple TV Plus drama series, which depicts a reality in which the Russians overtook the Americans in the race to the moon and changed the course of history, ended a second season that illustrated that this is one of the most calculated, meticulous and exciting series currently on screen.
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Ido Yeshayahu
Monday, 26 April 2021, 22:26 Updated: Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 08:33
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Trailer for the "For All Mankind" series (Apple TV Plus)
Occupying space has always been an issue that fascinated Hollywood. In 2020 Netflix alone provided two series dealing with this from different angles: "Away" starring Hillary Swank, the first team of astronauts to go to Mars and the lives and families left on Earth, and "Space Corps", the crazy and explosive politics behind a military force set up to control In outer space. "For All Mankind", which came up in November 2019 as part of the debut crop of the launch of the Apple TV Plus streaming service (including in Israel with an excellent Hebrew translation), deals with exactly the same topics, and does it much better than both.
"For All Mankind" describes an alternative reality in which the Russians preceded the Americans into space in 1969, which completely changed the race to space in the years and decades that followed.
The biggest first impression of the series is the length of its episodes.
Almost every one of them makes sure to get through the hour.
Fulfilled if the number of minutes was limited to the first episodes that prepare the ground for the future, but it continued throughout the second season, which ended last Friday, which makes it clear that this is a conscious and deliberate choice of its creators - Ronald D. Moore ("Battlestar Galactica"), Matt Wolpert and the former Israeli Ben Nadibi (the last two were among the writers of "Fargo" and "Umbrella Academy").
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Heavy feeling.
Joel Kinman, "For All Mankind" (Photo: Apple TV Plus)
This choice feels like part of the ethos of "for all mankind."
For better or worse, and as its name implies, it often imparts a heavy-headed, massive, sometimes slow and old-school feel as if it was created in the period its plot describes.
As is usually the case with works on astronauts made fearless, and certainly in works on the United States' attempts to lead the world forward, it is often pompous.
However, and this is part of the beauty and cosmic piyyut of "For All Mankind", the series transcends the astronauts who inhabit it: on the one hand they slowly drag themselves in a cumbersome space suit at zero gravity, on the other hand they do so in a levitation that simulates the lightness of a ballerina.
As it progresses, it becomes clear how well the series looks at things from different perspectives, being one thing and at the same time another thing.
This is so in macro: even though it takes time, its two seasons, and the third currently in production (out of seven planned, if the creators' wish is fulfilled by Apple) are weak for decades.
And the same is true in the micro: for example, at some point during the series a discussion takes place between two characters about the fate of the bitch Leica, the first creature from Earth to reach outer space.
One character believes that the heroism associated with her name is accurate, that the bitch realized she was part of something big.
The second character claims that the bitch was sacrificed on an altar of something she had no idea what it was, but only wanted to please her trainer.
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Lightness of a ballerina.
Chantal and Ansanten, "For All Mankind" (Photo: Apple TV Plus)
As a series that unfolds a compelling alternative reality, the ability to examine things in a rainbow of perspectives is part of the being of "For All Mankind."
Its starting point of course changes the course of the Cold War and American and Soviet politics, but not only.
The Butterfly Wings Economy collides with the wings of history as we know it - both in obvious things and in small, interesting and thought-provoking ways that remind and comment on our reality.
For example, Ted Kennedy defeated Nixon in the 1972 election, then himself was defeated by Reagan in 1976.
Early integration of women into the space program, in response to Soviet equality, helped advance the amendment to equal rights.
The Vietnam War ended earlier to allocate resources to the space program.
John Lennon was not murdered in 1980.
Prince Charles actually marries Camilla (so Diana will probably survive 1997).
And so on.
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Players are far too beautiful even by American television standards.
Michael Dorman and Sarah Jones, "For All Mankind" (Photo: Apple TV Plus)
All the big and small components of "For All Mankind" are presented through spectacular period effects and reconstructions. The space, the moon, the instrumentation, the vacuum. Real personalities like Ronald Reagan and Johnny Carson are recruited through Deep Pike for what in the end is a real sub-role - even if it is only done through TV screens and phone calls. But what makes “For All Mankind” is the way it harnesses its protagonists in favor of the big story, in an inseparable bond that radiates upon itself. In the nuances it describes how humanity, for its flaws and ambition, detaches from the ground and rushes into space, bringing there the same explosive charges, literally, and private and collective history. Like those brave ones who set out into the great black void, so too does the series explore new territories, inspiring and anxious at the same time, both in heaven and on earth.
The cast of the series includes Joel Kinman ("Upgraded Carbon," "The Killing"), Michael Dorman (Amazon's wonderful "Patriot"), Sarah Jones ("Condemned"), Chantal and Ansanten ("The Boys"), Judy Balfour ("Quarry"), Sonia Wolger ("Lost"), Ren Schmidt ("The Americans," "The Promenade Empire"), Chris Bauer ("The Undertaker," "The Duo") and many others.
And the reference is indeed to many others.
At its peak, juggling "For All Mankind" with an ensemble of about 14 people, as well as others in supporting roles.
Astronauts and astronauts, men and women of the ground crew, sons and daughters of a family, some fictional characters and some real ones - who of course have different lives in light of the crease in the reality that the series describes.
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The figures serve as a mosaic. Ran Schmidt, "For All Mankind" (Photo: Apple TV Plus)
It is impressive to see with each episode that passes - and especially at the exciting end of the second season - how the series cultivates and then talentedly ties the great variety of plot lines and characters. For all of them, "For All Mankind" provides a stable background and character that propels this huge spaceship back and forth, using them as a mosaic for the story it tells. Ambition, wisdom and daring are mixed with traumas, tragedies and heartbreaks, and everything makes up the story of human existence.
This description certainly sounds broad and devoid of specificity, simply because the article is intended to recommend the series to anyone who has not yet watched it without going into details from spoilers. But as in falling from the atmosphere into the earth, the details will become clearer as you get closer. The format of "For All Mankind" yields some of the most exciting and exhilarating episodes on television today, in particular starting with the final episode of the first season. Minutes of bare emotion and rummaging through heart-breaking wounds that bitterly weep in front of them, or clap enthusiastically in a moment of transcendence,Or forget to breathe in the face of hair-raising action moments.
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Amazing calculation and grammar.
"For all mankind" (Photo: Apple TV Plus)
Even if the episodes were better to be short by a quarter of an hour, and even if there is a forced plot line here and there, and even if the actors are far too beautiful even by American television standards - almost every episode has wonderful moments that easily cover up the reservations.
With their help and the help of its protagonists, "For All Mankind" describes in amazing calculation and grammar how the course of history affects human beings, and how human beings change the course of history.
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