For All Mankind (TV Series) Glasnost (2023) User Reviews

A liberal-left fantasy, very entertaining

[GwydionMW · 9/10 · 11 November 2023]

Political fiction - Gorbachev is a grand success. The USA and Russia become partners. China is still relatively poor and not a major space power.

Yeltsin and Putin are not mentioned, so far. Putin might appear later as a KGB man, presumably as a villain.

Al Gore gets elected President. The Clintons get divorced with Bill just ex-Governor. Presumably no more will be heard of them.

Having reached Mars in Season Three, we were already told an asteroid is next. It does indeed open with the landing on an asteroid: one that I assume is fictional, but looking like some of the actual asteroids. That part was convincing.

The asteroid is close enough to Mars to be put into orbit around Mars, to be a source of raw material. Is this valid science?

The asteroid is tethered, and then pushed. Obviously a source of tension, which I will not spoil.

Meantime Margo, having betrayed NASA, is being neglected in Moscow. The administrators there don't want her views. But from the amount of time spent on her, it seems safe to assume she will somehow come back. Maybe get a Presidential pardon.

Welcome the saga's return!

[ChazCone · 8/10 · 11 November 2023]

I feel like we've waited forever for Season Four. S3E10 took my breath away. I really enjoyed the montage of real and not-real events over the intervening eight years. Somehow I missed Margaret's survival of the bomb in S3E10. I have no idea how she survived and wound up in Russia; maybe a subsequent episode will clear that up for me.

Those eight years have been tough on Ed Baldwin. Looks like he aged 20 years in that time.

The photography and special effects and overall production values are the best of all the modern SF series out there IMHO.

I'm hooked for the long term. As soon as the alternate history concept dropped in 2019, I found the writing to be thought-provoking and entertaining. I'm sad to lose several of the main characters but the storyline has to move along, I suppose. I'll be watching every Friday for sure.

So glad we're back, but what's up with Ed's weird coif?

[mike-hickey-875-785078 · 9/10 · 21 December 2023]

Stoked season 4 is here! Superfan of the show, to say the least. More alternative history to keep up with the show's theme (some odd but still cool)! Love how Happy Valley has grown and how real social class issues have replaced the previous pioneers goals and original visions. Was only a matter of time.

The thing I'm wondering, however minuscule it is in the grand scheme of the show, is the ridiculous "old" Howard Hughes hairstyle they have for our man, Ed Baldwin (Joel Kinnaman)!?

Let me affirm, I'm a fan of Joel and his work. He's a good looking dude. Although I imagine Ed is now in his early to mid 60s, I feel as though they could've styled his hair a bit better and clean cut. Yes, give him plenty of grey but damn! Why the hobo hair...lol!

Of course no impact on this amazing show overall but just an observation. They need to get a good barber to Mars, stat!

I just adore this show, and love the time jumps!

[lizziemariejb · 10/10 · 13 November 2023]

We are back, in the 2000s now!!! As we get further from the point of diversion, the singularity where Russia landed on the moon first so the space race never ended... things are more noticeably different and it's so cool to watch.

I know this isn't a perfect show... there are a few wonky science and physics things that may bother the science minded folks (those who loved the realism of The Expanse for example). But I just don't care much, there is something so special to me about For All Mankind!

I truly enjoy every minute when I am watching, it's gorgeous to look at and so many beautiful details and moments in space. The time period now is of days most of us remember well, just two decades ago,, so the changes are very present all the time. There are parts of the FaM universe I wish were true.

The first episode of each season, when they set the stage with the newsreel of the years we missed... just live that part. Apple also made a news cast for each year/ each major event on the homepage, so if you didn't notice them, make sure to check them out. So well done.

Love the story, love the characters and actors, and look forward to getting to know some new people. I hope this show continues for many more decades to come! I'm a fan forever.

Oops, did the writers forget something ... AGAIN?

[brenda_loves_to_freecycl · 7/10 · 24 May 2024]

It is intimated in this episode that SOMETHING happened to Danny. But the specifics are never revealed.

Given how central a character he was in season 3, this seems like a VERY large oversight.

At the birthday party for Danny's daughter, one of the characters asks Amber (Danny's wife) how she is dealing with "that." The implication being that Amber is either divorced now, or a widow;

There should have been some closure for his character (namely them saying outright what happened to him).

It is certainly easy to speculate, based on the end of season 3, it just would have been nice for the writers to be more explicit and have filled this glaring plot hole.