For All Mankind initially hooked viewers with its clever alternate-history conceit about a 20th-century timeline in which the Soviet Union beat the United States to the moon, instigating a space race that eventually led to the creation of a colony on Mars.
Yet the reason Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi’s series is so beloved is its nuanced, earnest, and heartbreaking portrait of the men and women whose personal struggles, dreams, and hardships help shape mankind’s fate.
More than any sci-fi show on television, Apple TV’s hit is about how the little picture informs the big, and in that regard, it remains confidently on course in its fifth season (streaming Mar. 27).
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