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I've completed season 1 and have been hugely impressed with this production. The storyline is fictional space exploration from a US viewpoint in competition with Russia, coupled with the impact on multiple characters relationships, impacted by the political and social climate of the times in which the story is set. The quality of production and acting throughout is very high, the individuals, couples and teams' stories are as entertaining as the dramatic action scenes. I've started and paused episodes multiple times due to interruptions and poor planning on my part, leading me to the conclusion that this truly deserves to be given your full attention, to treat it like a visit to the cinema/movies. It's that good.

When you start watching a series from a choice of 2-3 ones, not being sure which one is the one to swallow and 5 episodes in you totally forget about the other "candidates", that speaks lengths in favor of 'For All Mankind'.

Started with the first season and was already fully immersed into the drama, the superb sci-fi achievements and ground-breaking spatial plots.

I was never a special fan of space sci-fi from 'Star Trek' main and spinoffs to 'The Mandalorian', but in 'For All Mankind' I found a whole new interest in scientific science-fiction, Moon and Mars colonization deepened with believable drama around the ones involved in the show, some may call it soapish, but for me it complemented the space and scientific features of the series oh so well, passing important messages in-between.

Just finished the fourth season and while my eyes are wet with tiny tears droplets, I just wish that I already had the fifth season's episodes in my fist.

Again, a stellar show by Apple Original and a red gem that is not hidden anymore. Ultra highly recommended. It's the space sci-fi version of 'The Killing' and 'The Americans' combined.

• Screenplay/storyline/plots: 8
• Production value/impact: 9
• Development: 9.5
• Realism: 8.5
• Entertainment: 9
• Acting: 9
• Filming/photography/cinematography: 8.5
• VFX: 9
• Music/score/sound: 7.5
• Depth: 8.5
• Logic: 6.5
• Flow: 8.5
• Sci-fi/drama: 8
• Ending: 7.5.

This show has a cool premise, that being what if the space race never ended. It's a sort-of alternate reality and it does a good job of weaving in actual historical events with where the timeline diverged. The main problem is that I feel like the show is being pulled in two directions. In one direction, there is the tension of the space race, engineers scrambling to be the first on the moon/mars and dealing with all manner of technical issues in a realistic-ish way. That part of the show I enjoy. Then, for some reason, the show also throws in a bunch of trite interpersonal drama and stupidity. Like inter-marital affairs, people leaking NASA secrets to the soviets, and a CLEARLY unstable drug-addicted astronaut being given solo control of a super important mission. It's like the showrunners thought the show couldn't stand on it's own without dumb drama, as if there couldn't organically be issues and drama in the context of Frigging SPACE. The first season does this better, but by the 2nd/3rd seasons most of the issues come not from unforeseen difficulties of life on the moon/mars but idiots. It really makes me wonder if they just aren't sure who their audience are. The people who like the technical stuff are not going to like the artificial drama, and vise-versa. Pick a lane, show, and stick with it.

I have to say that I enjoyed For All Mankind a lot more than I thought I would. It's actually become one of my favorite new shows of the last few years. It's a sci-fi mystery thriller that takes you down the road of "what if" during the space races. While the show does has its flaw overall it is a very good show. The writing and acting are all terrific, especially Joel Kinnamon. The use of actual footage and real events just make the story that much better. Each episode gets better and better. I put off watching it for some reason and I'm now binging all 3 seasons and can't stop. If you're a sci-fi fan and have been putting it off like me...stop! Go watch this as soon as possible because I promise you won't be disappointed.

It pains me to write this, but it's becoming almost unbearable to watch this series. It started as great alternate history sci-fi but has now devolved into pure soap. The drama in season 1 was well written and integrated naturally with the space stuff. Season 2 also, but to a lesser degree. Season 3 is completely off the rails.

We have astronauts on friggin Mars, but instead of all the exiting possibilities that entails, the plot revolves around creepy stalker Danny, petty squabbles and various people's sexual orientation.

There's nothing wrong with being LGBTQ+ and people should be free to be who they are (which they are in the civilized world), but drama like this is just not very interesting. Especially not when you're trying to watch a show about space travel.

First I will say that the show intro music is pure genius by Jeff Russo. Every time I listen it's inspiring and brings tears to my eyes, every-single-time.

The show is very strong in seasons 1 and season 2. Strong character arcs, good story, dialogue well written, great acting, strong character development, and production quality is well above normal for a 2020-2021 "show". The first two seasons really engage the viewer and leave them with a sense of historical space race nostalgia, even if they weren't alive to be there for it. The acting and dialogue nailed every scene with powerful ideas and inspiring characters. Extremely well done!

However; season 3 seemed like it would continue that drive of human advancement and equality but it fell short. The story had a good premise, the writing was meh, the acting was good but the writing made it flat and failed to engage the viewers in that reality.

What season 3 did do is push an in-your-face agenda of 'females are better than males.' Every strong position which held confidence was female (NASA Director, Roscosmos Director, Lead Engineer, President of US, NASA Captain, and at the end the CEO Helios) and every male position was transformed to weak, stupid, selfish and immature.

Contrast it with season 2 where we got Tracy Stephens (Sarah Jones) and Molly Cobb (Sonya Walger) and they were amazing, both as actors and as role models. Molly's support Wayne Cobb (Lenny Jacobson) is perfect in that role and showed how to be a loving symbiotic partner. That relationship continued to shine and Molly continued to shine as a bad-ass female in season 3 and I loved every moment of her on screen for all the seasons.

Overall season 3 was ok but the social justice agenda felt forced and overt, and if the writers are honest with themselves it cheapened the show. I am all for strong empowering female role models, but don't do it by making male characters incompetent. There was a real missed opportunity to show strong women and men working together in a noble cause, putting their past prejudices aside to focus on the science and towards a better future For All Mankind.

For All Mankind is one of my favorite sci-fi shows that I've ever seen and that's not hyperbole. I really can't get over how much I loved this show. It's a sci-fi show where Russia beat us to the moon and the great space races never ended. It may start off a little slow for some but after a few episodes you'll be hooked. It gets more exciting the further into the show you get. It's a character driven show that takes you into the lives of NASA astronauts and their families. The visuals in this are amazing and how they take real footage and real life videos and intertwine them with fiction into the show is awesome. This is an intense sci-fi series that must be watched by any true sci-fi fan. I hope they continue to more seasons.

Wow, just wow everything from the science to the actors is just spot on I mean they hired an astronaut for god's sake only once scene that is off and it's in the trailer when the space shuttle doesn't have its radiator panels open, and the show has got to be the best thing I've laid eyes on if you like space I cannot recommend this show enough only downside is it being on another streaming service but honestly is worth it to pay for the streaming service just for the show alone it's THAT good so if you are a fan of accurate space shows or just space in general and accurate shows WATCH THIS SHOW.

After Season 1 I have the show an overall 9. Then it dropped to 8 after Season 3. Tonight, after finishing the disastrous Season 4, down it went to 6.

Season 1 had an excellent "The Right Stuff" vibe to it. The alternate universe thing is a great idea to give a lot of artistic license. Characters and story were interesting, and easy to become attached to.

Season 2 was still very good. Carried on the stories lines, had some exciting scenes and was very enjoyable.

Season 3 brought on some new, and very annoying characters. The stories became somewhat cliched, boring, and just unbelievable, even for TV sci-fi.

Season 4. Oh, Season 4. For the first time there was some really bad acting from many new characters. Their stories were so all over the place you began rooting for them, and by the end you hoped they drift off into space never to be seen again. The characters we had become invested in were mostly gone, or unrecognizable. As tensions built in the latter half of the finale, it was easy to hate the characters that we're pretty sure the writers hoped you be excited for. If that is the case, it does not bode well for season 5.

(At the time I'm writing this, three seasons have aired and a fourth one is confirmed.) As an enthusiast for space flight, For All Mankind is an obvious fit for me. The first season with its far-extended Space Race, with Wernher von Braun, the Saturn V, and the Apollo program, was very special to see. Admittedly, it took the series a few episodes to properly take off, but when it finally did, it delivered fantastic characters, an interestig plot, a furious finale, and -- most of all -- perfectly legitimate and realistic depictions of space flight.

The second season continued in a similar vein. Character plot lines continued, the space race continued, the politics continued. The space flight kept its level of realism, though it progressed far beyond what was actually possible with our circumstances.

The third season I felt devolved into too much soap opera. Character-driven plot lines have always been a firm and important part of For All Mankind, but in the third season they began to eclipse the space stuff. There is one episode in particular which could and should have been about strange new worlds but instead spent three quarters of the time on a character being gay and the last quarter on astronauts being absolutely unprofessional. (Both themes actually occur frequently throughout the entire series, but they're typically only part of the narrative, not its entire focus to the detriment of the space stuff.) Nevertheless, the third season delivered a nice finale as well, and I'm eager to see what is going to happen in season four (and hopefully in future seasons as well).

Apart from the soap opera extending its reach, I also have to criticise a certain naiveté. The universe of For All Mankind in many ways feels much more favourable than our reality, and while at many times that feels perfectly reasonable, at others it is a bit overdone.

What impressed me quite a lot, however, is how well the series manages to span the many decades. Starting in '69, the third season is set in the nineties, with the final scene announcing the fourth season to be in 2003. We see the characters age (and, in quite many cases, die), see their children grow up, and that actually works incredibly well.

And, of course, the realistic and genuinely reasonable space stuff is just fantastic!

Season 1 was excellent. Season 2 less so but watchable. Season 3 veered between fleeting moments of brilliance and a preponderance of absurdity and dreadful plot lines, pandering to every demographic they could think of and a general disregard for anything that came before. Still enjoyed it for the most part, just a wasted opportunity.

Season one was fantastic, season two was not as good but not awful, season three is a mess. It appears that season three was either written by a poorly coded AI script generator or by a committee of millennials that all needed to cram their two cents into this script. There's way too much soap opera screen time. Poorly conceived "issues" are crammed into the storyline without much sense. People are just randomly barking out their sexual orientation on television without much else happening and apparently the astronauts in this alt timeline aren't very bright. Four stars for an average across all three seasons, before that I would have given it 7 or 8.

I was struggling with the first few episodes but I am so glad I kept watching. Became one of my favorite tv shows of all times. I will miss this show so much and maybe will revisit it one day - what I don't normally do.

My least favorite season was the third, but it didn't disappoint with the fourth. I think the magic is in the characters and the tales about dreams of every human being. The music is absolutely amazing, starting out with old times songs and ending with a really cool track at season 4. There is something magnificent to follow a human beings from childhood or young adulthood to elder years - that is one aspect that is amazingly done in this TV show.

This series shows an alternate history where the soviet space program is more aggressive and wins the race to the moon. The space race continues. As the creators said it does change almost everything about the world as we know it.

I really enjoyed the first season of this show, but at the time I didn't realise how detailed and well-written the show was. Seasons 2 and 3 were the peak for me - they had great production values, a great plot with many callbacks and fun characters. Season 4 felt like an unwanted DLC that is good but could heave been skipped.

At first, I didn't know what to expect from this show. But this series shows that the characters are complex and almost everybody has done good and bad things.

Overall the main series characters are Margo and Ed Bldwin who both get much screentime and great character development throughout. Ed Baldwin lost so much while being away from earth that he feel at home in space. It is very poethic and unique. Margo has many callback to his mentor and has a simmelar fate to him.

The first season is said to be very historically accurate and well-written, but the pilot didn't convince me what does this series want to be. After the first 4 episodes I realised that the show manages to capture the feeling of doing things for the greater good and being a part of something bigger. This season had the most drama and the least action compared to the other seasons.

Season 2 had some beautiful cinematography and had a lot more action and tension than the first season. It has a great soundtrack- with a reference to Apocalypse now. I think there was only one annoying plotline, but it didn't bother me that much. Gordo and Tracy were standouts this season. They get a lot of screentime and are a lot more likeable than in the first season.

Some people say season 3 wasn't so good but in my opinion it started off great and ended great. Maybe 7, 8 episodes were not so good but there was quite a bit of tension. The soundtrack is killer and for me the race to another planet is the peak of this series. Karen is the standout this season. And the finale has some major twists that I didn't expect. Be aware of the years in this season.

Season 4 is a great continuation of the series. The first episode and the finale live up to everything that came before. The Russian and earth plotline is great, but the plot on Mars is lame. Standout this season is Aleida who has the most charter development since season 2. It has a lot of set-up and interesting ideas that I wouldn't even think of, but shows no interest in developing them. The season has the least tension compared to the other seasons.

I really enjoyed how they handled the Soviets/Russians in this series. They aren't mindless killing machines but smart people who want peace.

I don't know what the future seasons will bring. I hope season 5 can bring back the great writing of the earlier seasons and I am really excited for the Star City spin-off .

First i want to start of with the fact that this truely is a hidden gem, way way underrated. It is not easy to produce a series with this many episodes portraying scenes in space - and doing it very very realisticaly aswell. So that alone is amazing, it is an altered reality but it really feels like that, if this would've happened, it would have been, as presented here.

It is not only good for space enthusiasts ( that might be interested in the technical stuff aswell, astrology topics ), but also goes really well into the dynamic between the characters and their relationships - love, hate, hardships in family.

It was never boring, every season came with something new, and they all delivered. As much in action, suspanse and plot-twists.

I like the title of this series: For All Mankind. Perhaps it will ignite the fire in some upcoming engineers or pilots, to do amazing things - For All Mankind.

You might view this series as a precursor to the Expanse. Separated of course by a few hundred years. There is so much about this show that puts it apart from everything else in the media. Some reviewers say this is an alternate history show but it's used only as a gimmick to have the U. S. and Russia put a lot more resources into the Space Program so it expands instead of being left to wither like it has in the current history. If you are unhappy with alternative history just view it as what might be possible starting in the year 2040 after we get our act together here on Earth (hopefully).

1) It's full of surprises and never gets boring. I hate predictable stories. You won't be able to predict this one.

2) The technical accuracy is there except for the availability of fission and fusion engines (who knows, if we stopped wasting money on weapons and warfare maybe we could have this technology by now and, well, maybe we do. Wink wink, nudge nudge)

3) The characters are all deep and well fleshed out.

Congratulations to the writers, producers, actors, set designers, costume designers and CGI artists and programmers. I frankly don't know how you pulled this off. It must have been a lot of work but the end result was the best TV series ever.

This is now my favorite television series of all time.

The last scene of the last season left me with tears in my eyes it was just so cool.

This is one of the best pieces of TV to have ever been created.

The series take you through an alternative reality where the Russians won the space race to the moon, but the race continued with the exploration of the moon and beyond... The race never stopped!

This story is equally driven by the beautifully flawed characters (with whom you experience the heights of triumph and the lowest lows of tragedy) and also but the main plot of the story, that of the struggles of the human race to explore and conquer space; and the balance of the two is masterful. What this show has done uniquely though, is made the audience feel the absolute wonder and majesty that I imagine the people watching the first human walking on the moon once felt. It's mesmerising and spell binding and is the best piece of television I have ever seen. What an emotional rollercoaster!

Enough said, go watch it! Honestly....

1st season was awesome.. Suspense, action, space and humor.. 2nd season became an Earthbound family/race/lgbtq driven soap opera.. It had it's moments toward the end of the season but overall it was a letdown....

Season 1 was really refreshing, interesting story, great cast, I loved how they manage to intergrate women into NASA and and hey most of the science was plausible.

Just stop watching after 2!

Season 3 is utter rubbish: SF lost the "S" and is now only the background for a soap. And my god even for a soap this is bad: Most character act like teenagers, unprofessional ones!

One leader are giving secrets to the Russian, why is not really important to the character, may be for peace, but then BlackOps in the UDSSR ... no prob. Of course no one notices the Russians has confidential info - again.

The old man is taken to lead the "bad" guys and of course he will not win against the black woman. Who crash lands, but hey who cares, if someone (surprise, surprise) has his coming out after the landing.

The worst is of course the kid-pilot.

Overall I lost interest in all characters and in the story. At the end of season 2 I was sad and happy at the consequent ending. But here, let them all die and start over.

I made it till the landing on Mars in the middle of season 3. By then I guess most SF fans dropped out anyhow. So journey on without me.

For all mankind series is the most perfect one among its types. Should continue till forever! Really like the scenario and parallel universe with current. Just feels like dream and drift into the the era. I really congratulate the writers, artists and whoever made effort on this. I enjoyed each of the part of the series and lived in it. Ed is reflecting my personality at all :) I found myself on him in deed. Season 4 is finished as I expected but producing of tue scenes are wonderful. I gave it 10 stars to it without any issue. It deserve 10 on 10. I am looking for session 5. Great job guys! Keep up your good work :)