For All Mankind
Sprawling sagaA many-threaded epic that unfolds across seasons.This show: 8/10Ensemble castMany characters carrying equal weight.This show: 8/10SerializedContinuous arcs where every episode builds on the last.This show: 8/10HopefulPersistent optimism in the face of adversity.This show: 7/10Real historyReal historical events and figures woven into the story.This show: 7/10Emotionally heavyDemands real emotional stamina from the viewer.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Joel KinnamanMichael DormanWrenn SchmidtCoral PeñaCynthy WuKrys Marshall
Written by
Ben NediviMatt WolpertRonald D. Moore
Starring
Joel KinnamanMichael DormanWrenn SchmidtCoral PeñaCynthy WuKrys Marshall
Written by
Ben NediviMatt WolpertRonald D. Moore
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For All Mankind Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.1 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 8.5 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.8 | 9.0 | |
| S2 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 7.3 | 8.0 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 8.7 | 9.4 | |
| S3 | 8.0 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 7.9 | 8.7 | 8.1 | 7.0 | 7.1 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.8 | |
| S4 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 8.8 | |
| S5 | 7.5 | 7.0 | 7.2 | 7.9 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 8.2 | |
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About
"What if the space race never ended"
For All Mankind imagines an alternate timeline where the Soviet Union beats the United States to the moon, so the space race never winds down. Spanning decades, it follows astronauts, engineers, and their families as accelerated space exploration reshapes politics, technology, and personal lives. The show is a slow-building ensemble drama, more soap opera than action spectacle, with real emotional weight and meticulous period detail. Each season leaps years forward, trading tidy arcs for sprawling generational storytelling. It rewards patience with a rich, hopeful vision of what humanity might have become if we'd never stopped reaching further.
Watch it for
the sprawling alternate history that turns decades of space exploration into deeply personal, character-driven drama.
Maybe skip if
you dislike slow-building ensemble casts and multi-year time jumps between seasons.
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Season 12019
8.131K1010h 16m
Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.
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Season 22021
8.125K1010h 12m
Season two picks up in 1983, the height of the Cold War, with tensions between the United States and the USSR at their peak. The Department of Defense has moved into Mission Control, and the militarization of NASA becomes central to several characters’ stories: some fight it, some use it as an opportunity to advance their own interests, and some find themselves at the height of a conflict that may lead to nuclear war.
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Season 32022
8.022K1010h 4m
The propulsive third season takes viewers to a new decade, moving into the early ’90s with a high-octane race to a new planetary frontier: Mars. The Red Planet becomes the new front in the space race not only for the US and the Soviet Union, but also an unexpected new entrant with a lot to prove and even more at stake. Our characters find themselves going head-to-head as their ambitions for Mars come into conflict and their loyalties are tested, creating a pressure cooker that builds to a climactic conclusion.
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Season 42023
7.816K109h 34m
Rocketing into the new millennium in the eight years since season three, Happy Valley has rapidly expanded its footprint on Mars by turning former foes into partners. Now 2003, the focus of the space program has turned to the capture and mining of extremely valuable, mineral-rich asteroids that could change the future of both Earth and Mars. But simmering tensions between the residents of the now-sprawling international base threaten to undo everything they are working towards.
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Season 52026
7.510K109h 9m
Season five of 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.
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Season 6
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Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Joel Kinnaman Edward Baldwin
Michael Dorman Gordo Stevens
Wrenn Schmidt Margo Madison
Coral Peña Aleida Rosales
Cynthy Wu Kelly Baldwin
Krys Marshall Danielle Poole
Shantel VanSanten Karen Baldwin
Jodi Balfour Ellen Wilson, Ellen Waverly
Edi Gathegi Dev Ayesa
Noah Harpster Bill Strausser
Crew
Ben Nedivi
Matt Wolpert
Ronald D. Moore
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