I come in peace... three times a night -- FOR ALL MANKIND (Apple TV Plus)

Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus

That's the scene after the credits play at the conclusion of season 3. USA & the fallen USSR team up and fulfill Sagan's vision.

finished s2 and i bawled my face off

was not expecting it to go that way even though rationally i knew Moore always likes a good named-cast bodycount with finales

please respect my privacy at this time ;_;

I change my mind this show pulls its punches and leaves the important questions unasked and thus blows:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuv6TVv0r44

We're not quite done the first season, but I think the premise of this show is totally ingenious. I love how it creates drama from subverting history (omg, are they going to kill Neil Armstrong?! etc.), making you root for characters who are not real but real-adjacent (omg, I can't believe we did it, I can't believe the pretend first woman on the moon pretend discovered water!!!). Like, sometimes you have to remind yourself that yeah, we *did* put a man on the moon, didn't we?

twelve of them, even

so many mens

Men on Moons

In any case, this topic caused a recent revive by me of DSKY-DSKY Him Sad: Official ILB Thread For The Heroic Age of Manned Spaceflight

Can’t remember if I brought it up on this thread or the other or neither, but Gene Kranz never actually said “Failure is not an option,” it was something written for his character to say in Apollo 13 and the real GK liked it so much he used it for the title of his book and ends up being spoken by his character in this show as well.

Wonder what will be the musical accompaniment to Margo's morning routine in the opening episode of Season Three. Speculations are welcomed.

Anyway, rewatching a bit and enjoying, although I am a little more weary of the Forrest Gump-like musical cues, which I tolerated better the first go ground

We just reached the high stakes space rescue episode of season 1, thrilling stuff!

Gordo in all phases is my favorite thing about this whole series, he is so great

I loved Molly most of the way through but i think she got ~too~ ornery somewhere in there & wore out her welcome

I feel bad but I didnt really care much about the lesbian astronaut? name?, but I didnt really enjoy that actor much, felt like she was just doing “bambi eyes” & hoping for the best

ellen?

didn't recognise molly as penny from L O S T but don't think I'd have remembered penny from L O S T if I hadn't looked up molly

I have enjoyed this programme

I really like the way Ellen is portrayed, the way the extra level of repression and her career feedback into each other in some kind of chicken and egg way, but then again maybe I have some special interest in repressed characters, see also longstanding fascination with Mary Woronov.

We're a few episodes into season 2, and while I'm not terribly interested in all the domestic drama, the soap opera stuff, I'm loving the space drama.

Yeah, there’s always that to fall back on.

Wow at that season 2 finale. It almost felt like a situation where, just in case, they came up with something that could stand as a series finale. Just in case. But I look forward to season 3, whenever it arrives. I think filming is done, at least.

love u gordo

https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/for-all-mankind-gordo-michael-dorman-s2-1619444342.jpg?crop=0.4993489583333333xw:1xh;center,top&resize=480:*

Some of the rest of family has made it to S2E8 but they are blinking at watching the last two episodes.

buy the ticket take the ride, baby

Wait, are you saying they've watched 18 of the 20 episodes but don't want to watch the final two?

Yes, because too stressful especially after guy who got shot caught fire

Oh, in that case, it doesn't really get less stressful!

Yes exactly.

Yeah, episodes 9 and 10 famously stress free

the last 2 eps are good enough to scout out on your own and then take family along for the ride

Just skip past the stressful parts so your family can enjoy the other *checks notes* 12 minutes of content

Ha, exactly.

the last 2 eps are good enough to scout out on your own and then take family along for the ride

Ride with Sally (Ride), too.

the s3 ending bummed me out for another reason

I was so gutted by Gordo's death because he was my hands down favorite character. But also I was looking forward to the moment when Gordo learns that Karen boned down with Danny. I'm still looking forward to Tracy finding out, and dragging Karen out of her house by her hair and beating the shit out of her on the front lawn, and Ed finding out and going nuclear, but I still wish Gordo was going to be alive for that particular show

Um…

Yes, some bad news for you, VG

ok what now

nvm forget i said anything my brain is so stupid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKcl4-tcuo

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Chose an interesting week to binge watch both series...

May have shed a little tear at the end of S2E10.

season 3 on june 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYNpjVTDkhM

!

yaaaaaay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNmwwz07ftA

Gemini Cricket!

Lol

Is that voice over from Ellen as president?

Oh, good catch!

Whoooops I thought you meant Ellen Degeneres, that would've been some non sequitur.

haha, I had the same thought. I was having waking nightmares of Ellen Degeneres as president in the 90s as a stand-in for… never mind, not moving the conversation there

Lol, forgot Ellen’s surname in the show (?Wilson) and didn’t even think about Ellen Degeneres.