For All Mankind — Season 5

The alt-history NASA race enters its final season, episode by episode

Apple TV+ 2026 8 episodes reviewed
EPISODE 01

For All Mankind S5E1 Review: A Murder on Mars Cracks Open the Bragg Era

The premiere drops a decade of geopolitics on Happy Valley before the colony's first homicide forces a referendum on who actually owns Mars.

EPISODE 02

For All Mankind S5E2 Review: Happy Valley Picks a Side and a Body Drops to Make It

A jurisdiction fight becomes a jailbreak, a Titan signal becomes a crewed mission, and Ed Baldwin pays in lead for both.

EPISODE 03

For All Mankind S5E3 Review: Ed Baldwin Goes Home Aboard the Ship He Helped Build

A series-defining death scene set inside Sojourner 1, walked into the room by the men Ed could never save.

EPISODE 04

For All Mankind S5E4 Review: A Mars Built for Workers Quietly Plans to Replace Them

Apple TV+'s alt-history sci-fi crashes a launch-day pep rally with a leak, and lets Avery Jarrett finally claim a father she never knew.

EPISODE 05

For All Mankind S5E5 Review: The Lubyanka Lesson Comes Home to Happy Valley

Irina walks out of a Russian cell while Happy Valley discovers what its own peacekeepers will do once a curfew is declared.

EPISODE 06

For All Mankind S5E6 Review: Happy Valley Stops Being a Colony and Starts Being a Hostage

A protest hardens into a siege, an asteroid becomes a bargaining chip, and Earth answers with embargo instead of empathy.

EPISODE 07

For All Mankind S5E7 Review: Titan Lures Two Crews and a Revolution Toward Its Atmosphere

A Vonnegut title becomes operating instructions as Sojourner is funneled toward Saturn's moon and Happy Valley pays the cost of a single covert raid.

EPISODE 08

For All Mankind S5E8 Review: A Finale That Blows Up Its Own Idealism on a Mining Platform

The Happy Valley experiment ends the only way Ron Moore's alt-history ever ends — with a body count the people who chose it have to keep walking past.

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