For All Mankind
The alt-history NASA race begins, episode by episode
For All Mankind S1E1 Review: A Pilot That Loses the Moon Before It Can Win It
Ronald D. Moore's alt-history premiere stages a national humiliation on live television and then spends fifty minutes on the people who have to keep working in
For All Mankind S1E2 Review: Ed Walks Into a Hearing and Confesses to Himself
Ed Baldwin tries to scapegoat Wernher von Braun, ends up indicting himself, and Apollo 12 lifts off into a war the show keeps refusing to call by its name.
For All Mankind S1E3 Review: Nixon's Women Arrive and the Bedstead Takes One
A White House PR stunt drags the Mercury 13 out of mothballs, sticks an astronaut's wife in the class, and ends in a fireball nobody in the room is ready for.
For All Mankind S1E4 Review: Prime Crew Politics and a Press Conference Coup
Patricia Doyle's funeral, John Glenn's lobbying tour, and a wildcat announcement reroute Apollo 15 around the White House while Gordo loses his seat to Molly Co
For All Mankind S1E5 Review: Molly Cobb Rappels Into a Crater and Finds the Future
A mid-flight landing-site swap, a winch made of rover parts, and a painted nightmare turn the moon ice mission into the show's first real character verdict.
For All Mankind S1E6 Review: Apollo 23 Blows Up and Takes the Show's Innocence With It
A launchpad explosion, a closeted astronaut, an ERA-for-rocket-parts trade, and a Nazi engineer carrying a dead father's secret all converge into the season's h
For All Mankind S1E7 Review: Dani Breaks Her Own Arm So Gordo Can Go Home
Jamestown spends an hour reciting Bob Newhart from memory, then pays for it twice — once on the moon, once on a quiet Houston street.
For All Mankind S1E8 Review: A Basketball Game That Never Happened
A child's accident on a Houston street collides with a Russian surveillance probe on the moon, and the season's most devastating hour is built around a phone ca
For All Mankind S1E9 Review: A Stranded Astronaut and a Rookie's Real First Flight
Apollo 24 misfires, a saved life rewrites Tracy's career, and Karen Baldwin sleepwalks into the only door she has left to knock on.
For All Mankind S1E10 Review: A Christmas Rescue That Buries Its Best Astronaut
The season-one finale stages a football-throw rescue in lunar orbit, then asks the woman who survives it to lie about who she is on national television.