GoKawiilJust as For All Mankind wrapped its latest season on Apple TV, the platform also premiered the first two episodes of Star City, a spinoff set in the same alternate timeline where the Soviet Union beats the United States to the Moon. Watch the trailer below.
Star City premieres on Apple TV
More than two years after it was first announced, Star City debuted on Apple TV, with its first two episodes now available to stream.
The show’s premise is interesting: it revisits the same alternate history as For All Mankind, but from the perspective of the Soviet Union and its space program.
In For All Mankind, the Soviet Union beats the United States to the Moon, setting off an alternate version of the space race that unfolds across major time jumps between most seasons.
Just a few days ago, the first reviews of Star City came in, with critics describing it as a darker, more espionage-driven companion to For All Mankind rather than a straightforward retelling from the other side. Reviews were also predominantly positive, which is always a plus.
Here’s the show’s outline, according to Apple:
A bold new chapter inspired by the critically acclaimed space-race drama, “For All Mankind,” “Star City” is a propulsive paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race — when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humankind forward.
You can watch the trailer for Star City below:
Watch Star City and For All Mankind on Apple TV
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