Star City - Official Trailer

Apple wanted a loss leader to get people to buy into Apple TV Plus. They overspent, and blew everyone away, and now that its time to recoup, they don't want to keep the same standard.

The show jumped the shark when it pivoted from the moon to mars

Edit: Seems y'all disagree, and would prefer the Soviets remain a 2 dimensional comic book villain lacking depth or substance, fair enough. Original: For All Mankind has a problem with depicting the USSR as anything other than a cardboard cutout made of stereotypes. For as much research as they did on space science, it feels like they did none on the Soviet Union. In the present season it's essentially just the Russian Federation in all but name. I'm not a Soviet apologist, it was corrupt and dictatorial regime that was highly totalitarian in its earlier years. However it was also a lot of other things more than that. It was a complex state that had inexorably linked it's utopian ideology to the core of the national identity. It was both a Russian dominated empire, and a multi ethnic union of peoples. It was obsessed with winning the argument, and representing a true alternative to American dominated western liberal capitalism. Showing the USSR as embracing capitalism while being a successful viable state (as the show did a season or two back) betrays a complete lack of understanding of what the USSR was or represented. Russia embraced capitalism only after the communist ideology and economic system has been so completely and thoroughly discredited by the collapse of their country. I'm glad the writers of For All Mankind got some space science people in the writers room, but would it have killed them to get even one political scientist so that their depiction of the USSR could be elevated above literally just copying exactly what happened IRL for their alternative timeline show. I mean, why not have the Soviets invest in OGAS and the Cybernetic projects to explain their economic turnaround? Or have Gorbachev replaced by a more politically deft reformer? Or maybe they mend the Sino Soviet split? For an alternative timeline show, they really lacked imagination.

>hauling Nazi scientist to do most of the work requiring brains NASA isn't Russian

That’s a silly reply, it is based on the Soviet Union. Plenty of English language shows reflect the accents of the nations or multi states that the characters reside in

Yeah I have noticed some shows take a bit to really get their hooks into you. I have it all downloaded and on my very big tv show backlog. I will get around to watching it and will give it a fair go. If I could get a truck driving job that takes me out of my city on overnight runs, I would load my shows onto a portable hard drive and make myself get through the backlog that way. I have too many other things to distract myself with at home sadly.

or my favourite example: The Death of Stalin, where different british accents represented the different origins of the characters

Right but they didn't do that at all in For All Mankind, so it's odd. I suspect the reason is because this is just Russia, but if the series does well, and Margo shows up, it's going to be weird

Hunt For Red October is my favorite example, because the Russians have English accents, but people from all the other various republics have other British/commonwealth accents. Most notably, Connery's character obviously has a Scottish accwnt, as do all the other Latvian characters. It's been decades since I've seen it, so I don't remember exactly, but it's something like Ukrainians having Irish accents, Moldovans having Welsh, etc.

Oh I know... Chernobyl was great but also was just weird that everyone was english and with prominent english actors