There is a moment in the premiere of Star City, Apple’s spinoff of its hit drama For All Mankind, when it feels like we’ve been launched into an early episode of that parent series — back before all the characters were living on Mars, when simply getting to the moon was an awesome challenge.
A spaceship takes off. Everything goes well, until it doesn’t. In a command center down on Earth, rows of engineers scramble to improvise a solution. Up in the stars, two brave souls white-knuckle their way around maneuvers that might doom them as easily as save them. It’s breathlessly tense and oddly moving and just plain fun, which is to say it’s classic For All Mankind.
Star City
The Bottom Line
Cold War chills meet Space Age thrills.
