Already renewed for a season 3, For All Mankind is back on Friday, February 19 on Apple TV + for a season 2 which brings us back this time to the 80s and plunges us into a very lunar cold war.
As a reminder, For All Mankind comes to us from Ronald D. Moore (Outlander, Battlestar Galactica), Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi, and takes place in a world where the Soviet Union beat the United States in the Race for Space. by being the first to walk on the moon. The morale of NASA was then devastated, forcing America to opt for desperate methods to keep the peace. The first season, therefore, followed Americans determined to catch up, navigating political and technological challenges to land on the moon, and establish themselves there.
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In Season 2, we leap in time of almost ten years, and technology and lunar exploration leap forward. We are now in 1983 under the presidency of Ronald Reagan and a period when tensions between the United States and the USSR are at their peak. The two confront each other in an attempt to gain control of resource-rich sites on the moon. A collaboration between NASA and the military thus emerged, which some saw as an opportunity while others are still fiercely opposed to this association.
Season 2 of For All Mankind brings together Joel Kinnaman (Edward Baldwin), Jodi Balfour (Ellen Waverly), Michael Dorman (Gordo Stevens), Sarah Jones (Tracy Stevens), Wrenn Schmidt (Margo Madison), Shantel VanSanten (Karen Baldwin), Krys Marshall (Danielle Poole) and Sonya Walger (Molly Cobb).
For All Mankind — Season 2 Trailer | Apple TV+
They are joined by Cynthy Wu (Holidate) as Karen, Ed’s adopted daughter; and Kelly Baldwin, Aleida Rosales as Coral Peña (Chemical Hearts), a brilliant engineer with a complicated past; and Casey W. Johnson (GLOW) as the son of astronauts Gordo and Tracy.
