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For All Mankind Renewed for Fifth Season, Soviet-Focused Spin Off 'Star City' Announced (www.thewrap.com)

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I really, really like For All Mankind. It's a good sci-fi show. It's not winning any awards for its depiction of the USSR, but it firmly puts the Russians in the antagonist seat, not necessarily the 'irredeemable evil' seat.

FAM getting a spin off entirely focused on the Soviet's perspective during its alternate history is not something I ever expected to see.

Considering that the latest season of FAM establishes the USSR outliving its real-life point of collapse, while retaining its communist values, I hope that this 'Star City' spin off is going to be an even more humanizing look at the Soviets.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I liked the premise and it did an alright job in the early seasons of not portraying the Soviets as comically evil.

I think parts of the later seasons lost that though, they couldn't resist going hard on the repressed DPRK tropes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I couldn't even get past the first episode with its US exceptionalist attitude. I don't really have high hopes for the spinoff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I think parts of the later seasons lost that though, they couldn’t resist going hard on the repressed DPRK tropes.

same :") couldn't handle it at all

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

For real. Part of its allure for me was how it carefully painted the USSR as the evil guys from the perspective of Americans, but not objectively evil. The second season was in fact heavily hinting that it was the US escalating tensions, while the USSR was simply reacting to escalations.

The beginning of the third season, with the choking scene they just made all of that crumble. And the 4th season showing Soviet cities been stuck in the 70s, was a really bad carricature.

At least they admitted they made mistakes in the writing of season 3 and 4, and will try to fix them going forward.