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For All Mankind will end with season 6

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The announcement that 'For All Mankind' will conclude with its sixth season marks the end of a significant narrative in sci-fi television, highlighting Apple's commitment to long-form storytelling and expanding universe through a new spinoff. This decision underscores the show's success in engaging viewers with alternate history and space exploration themes, while also signaling a strategic move to diversify content with the upcoming 'Star City' series from the Soviet perspective.

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For All Mankind starts streaming again this week, with its fifth season set to premiere on March 27th. But Apple is also taking this moment to clarify the show’s future — it’s been renewed for a sixth season, which will also be its last.

For All Mankind premiered in 2019 as part of Apple TV’s initial launch lineup, and the alternate history sci-fi show imagines what would happen if the Soviet Union landed the first crewed mission on the moon, thus setting off a very different space race. While the story began in 1969, each season jumps ahead several years, and when season 5 kicks off it’ll be set in the 2010s on a Mars base called Happy Valley. Here’s the official logline:

Happy Valley has grown into a thriving colony with thousands of residents and a base for new missions that will take us even further into the solar system. But with the nations of Earth now demanding law and order on the Red Planet, friction continues to build between the people who live on Mars and their former home.

While the main For All Mankind story will end with season 6, the story is expanding with a spinoff. A new series called Star City will premiere on May 29th — the same day that season 5 wraps up — telling the story from the Soviet point of view.