User Reviews

A really good and intriguing series about the Moon Landing.. Have everything you want, thrills, exitement, action and even some humor..

As a Swede as Joel i have always liked his stuff but this is really something.. Its obvious his acting skills has gone up over the years!!

This is a show you " NOT want to MISS " and its for everyone!

Great season opener getting us acquainted with ten years of activity and progress. Jamestown has grown into a much more substantial base with about a dozen inhabitants. Margo and Ed are now in more senior positions and the military are still trying to weaponize space.

Very well done getting everything across without resorting to tedious exposition and simultaneously generating tension through jeopardy.

Great start, good intro to explain the changes, also excellent to see the same characters and how they are progressing. Some high tension moments, really looking forward for more.

Just a great new start for this series.. The story doesn't dwell at the storyline from season one, they start a fresh new storyline with a bit of a skip into the future(not like Star Trek, but like the 80's).. The characters have progressed and a few new ones are introduced.. The space race is still going between the US and Russia, and it starts with new problems ahead (without spoilering)...

For All Mankind Season 2 Episode 1 began with a beautiful scene. The astronauts on the Jamestown Colony (my, how things have changed) were prepping for their first sunrise in 14 days, some of them for the first time.

By the end of the second season premiere, their lives were in jeopardy, and NASA and the military were embroiled in a battle to keep America safe and the military out of NASA. At that time, the US and Russia had small bases for specimen-collecting on the moon that allowed a limited number of people on the moon at any given time. Fast forward ten years, and there's practically a thriving metropolis in comparison. There are at least a dozen astronauts manning Jamestown, and they cycle in and out, using a shuttle service to ferry crews up and down. Hey, it's what we always imagined a "shuttle" would be used for. Little did we know. Thank goodness, we have For All Mankind to show us how different things could be if we'd been a little more interested in space instead of just using it for commercial gain. For All Mankind is a nice reminder that necessity is the mother of invention. Although Ed (now an admiral!) scoffed at someone's electric car that barely scraped 60 on the road, imagine how much further that technology could have come in the last 20 years if it was a requirement to make the moon more habitable. NASA's innovations have made our everday lives more comfortable and efficient, and we have nothing that compares to the scope of Jamestown. It makes perfect sense to see more innovation earlier in the game because of that spirit of exploration. It wasn't only exploration driving NASA and the military's ambitions, though. For All Mankind read the room and realized that if the race was on between the US and Russia, they'd take it to the moon. During the first season, the stakes were limited. There wasn't effective transportation between earth and the moon, and what they had in place on the moon was also limited in scope. But now, there is a lot at stake on the moon, too, and the US Military sees it as an opportunity to weaponize the next generation shuttle, and if they're on the shuttle, they'll effectively be on the moon. Molly Cobb, who should be front and center in that discussion, will not be affected because she purposefully took off her radiation detector to save her fellow astronaut, consequenced be damned.

Really, super boring start. No drive compared to the first season.