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

Objected to Smashing Pumpkins bit - that song didnt come out til a year later dammit. Unless I spose you cant kvetch about that stuff being as its alt history.

I’ve kind of learned to tune out the musical selections on this show to the extent possible, one of the few obvious consistent flaws.

There is a pleasing and accurate beige and oyster-grey 90s blandness that they've nailed in the sets this time around.

I feel like they learned something from the Season 2 startup tbh.

Didn't S2 end with a Nirvana cue?

Yeah but that was to set up the jump to the 90s

If anything it might have overshot the mark, right? Doesn't S2 end with boots on Mars? Which means (I guess theoretically) that S2 "ends" in the later '90s, past S3. Anyway, yeah, this is alternate history, maybe in this world Siamese Dream came out a year earlier.

Josh, I do sometimes wonder if you watch all these shows whilst distracted on your phone or something.

S2 ends with boots on the moon, Nirvana's Come As You Are playing and 1995 in big fucking numbers on the screen

lol, sometimes! But I just watched it again, this second, and no, S2 ends with them on Mars! The song starts and the camera approaches the moon, it shoots *past* the moon in space (wby would S2 end with the moon, anyway?), toward Mars/red planet, it reaches the surface, and then you see a pair of boots of unknown nationality take a step forward.

Yeah, I meant boots on Mars.

It was a cliffhanger/teaser ending showing that S3 would be set in the 90s and all about the race to Mars

Yeah, that I got. I meant as far as year signifiers go, "Come as You Are" is off by a couple of years (forward), too. Should have been "This is How We Do It."

I guess it was just letting the audience know we're now in the 90s (before the 1995 flashes up).

The whole show is an alternative timeline anyway so it doesn't really bother me if they're a couple of years out musically.

smdh can't believe they showed the beatles reunion tour in the mid 80s when we all know it happened in 89

Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kid

Kids

Sorry. In a coffee shop and hearing an enjoyable playlist of well-worn 60s but mostly 70s favorites, thinking how they are used up for any future soundtrack appearances so might well appear on FAM. Currently playing: “Spirit in the Sky.”

“Behind Blue Eyes”! This episode is writing itself.

so they have set up [Danny & Danielle (plus Margo) vs Ed & Karen (plus new age tech guy and hopefully Molly)]. It has some interesting possibilities least interesting of which is the love triangle. Will be annoying if that takes up a lot of screen time in future episodes.

format fail, sorry

Failure not an option iirc

Unfortunately I think that the love triangle is going to be a thing this season.

either Danny has to rescue Ed or vice versa, and we have to watch him take a long time to decide whether he's going to do it

hadn't thought that though but makes sense, yeah.

The show's been decent at setting up things where you think they're taking it one way but end up changing it up a bit, though

The profile picture for Wrenn Schmidt on IMDB is wildly different than her Margo look.

that's acting, baby!

FUCK YEAH!

re the episode, that was

tfw your man is getting all sexual but he really just wants your engine design

sad we missed the presidential debate about regulation of private space travel :(

(this is a timeline where there isn't even private internet)

poor Margo :(

What did I just watch?

Or, what Real James said.

Nice that both Aleida and Kelly end up on team NASA but for opposite reasons, one to stay with Margo and the other to get out from Ed's shadow

xpost, care to elaborate on what you watched :)

Great opening. Not sure I can watch the rest until tomorrow.

FUCK HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WAIT ANOTHER WEEK?

Good episode! Starting to see how things fit together. Still very unstoked for whatever the Ed/Danny denouement turns out to be.

really? lol ever since Karen boned Danny all i have wanted it is for Ed to find out in the most awkward way imaginable and blow all twelve remaining gaskets over his ex wife boning his dead best friend’s kid 😂

(i’m way behind in the new season)

OMFGGGGGGGGGGGGG.

They fixed Larry's bald cap.

holy shit that was fucking terrifying

goddamn the “space goes pearshaped”segments always feel real as hell in this show

as the credits came up i shook my head and said aloud to myself "these motherfuckers"

I knew Dev would turn out to be a Marvin

Episode delivers

earlier baldcap was kind of a Conehead/Talosian tribute

keen to see more of:

- What is North Korea up to?
- What will Aleida do when she realises the Soviets have her rocket?
- Is there any culture original to the FAM timeline except Love in the Skies?
- Ed + Danielle + Cosmonaut captain work out how to work together
- Cool flying

keen not to see more of:

- Extended Ed/Danny/Karen drama (obv it's coming but please get it over quick)
- Soviets try to hijack Sojourner (even worse if they somehow staged the accident)
- Ellen impeachment trial
- Jamestown truthers

Drinking of Shiners made the truthers especially scary to me for some reason

how do i get you all to ride w me for Ed/Danny/Karen drama. You all are some basic boring bitches ffs

But came to post this episode now reminding me of one of my old screennames

Okay, thing dropped Thursday night at nine so I think we are safely past the 24 hours from Jamestown rule and can dispense with h-tags.

xp it's ok - when they pause the plot for an entire episode of manly brawling and tearful SpaceTime calls, I'll be less miserable in the knowledge that someone out there is enjoying it