For All Mankind
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Langweilig

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4,493 posts

239 months

Sunday 21st August 2022
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I came across this on YouTube. It's an "alternative reality" version of the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the USA. Russian rocket scientist Sergei Korolev doesn't die in an operating theatre and the Soviets are the first to land on the moon. They also land the first woman on the moon. But you wouldn't believe which far eastern nation puts the first man on Mars. Anyway, I'm ordering the DVD of season one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6YJ5oIcT4g

funinhounslow

1,987 posts

170 months

Sunday 21st August 2022
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Discussed at length on the Apple TV+ thread - it’s an outstanding series. The first two series in particular are exceptional. Series 3 IMO is blighted by one character/storyline but is saved by the final episode.

They are currently filming series 4.

Glad it’s being released on blu ray - it deserves a wider audience than is available on Apple TV plus.

If you’re just getting into this you’re in for a real treat.

ETA I would recommend resisting the temptation to watch too many clips on you tube. You’re bound to stumble across some significant spoilers.

Edited by funinhounslow on Sunday 21st August 22:05

InitialDave

15,037 posts

147 months

Sunday 21st August 2022
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If you're the kind of person (like me) who will happily sit and chew through a couple of episodes at a time to catch up with something, you could just spend a fiver on a month's worth of Apple TV and watch it all.

Turtle Shed

2,878 posts

54 months

Monday 22nd August 2022
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Same title from 1989, this is superb:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097372/

Greg_B

234 posts

68 months

Thursday 15th September 2022
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funinhounslow said:
Discussed at length on the Apple TV+ thread - it’s an outstanding series. The first two series in particular are exceptional. Series 3 IMO is blighted by one character/storyline but is saved by the final episode.
I'm glad you like it. To me it is an absolutely horrible series blighted by all sorts of factual errors and flights of fancy that some likely believe to be true, which is tragic. I found it utterly unwatchable.