The good news is that For All Mankind will be back for its sixth season. The bad news is that it will be the alternate timeline that takes on space travel show’s last one on Apple TV.
“Getting to explore the ‘For All Mankind’ universe over six seasons has been an amazing privilege, and we’re thrilled to have the opportunity to finish the story the way we’ve always hoped,” said Wolpert and Nedivi. “We’re incredibly proud of what this series has become, and grateful to Apple TV and Sony Pictures Television for helping us see it through to its final chapter.”
Before we get to that chapter, we still have to get through season 5, which premieres on Friday. This upcoming season picks up in the 2010s, years since the Goldilocks asteroid heist. Happy Valley has grown into a thriving colony with thousands of residents and a base for new missions that will take us even further into the solar system. But with the nations of Earth now demanding law and order on the Red Planet, friction continues to build between the people who live on Mars and their former home.
I got into the series because my friend had a bit role in season 1, and I was hooked. The first three seasons were ingenious in how they handled being set in a parallel timeline that had successfully colonized the Moon and Mars, and all the greed and BS that goes along with that. However, last season, after they moved to Mars, it started to lose me. It stopped being about space exploration and became more about the strife between Mars and Earth.
I will stick with it for the final two seasons, but I think they are smart to be ending it.
