10 Shows Like 'For All Mankind' You Should Watch Next
'For All Mankind' is a sci-fi series that explores an alternate history where the space race continued due to the Soviet Union's prolonged dominance in space exploration. The show imagines how global politics, technology, and society might have evolved differently across decades. This article recommends 10 similar shows, including 'The Man in the High Castle' and 'The Right Stuff,' that blend historical reimagining with compelling narratives.
- ▪'For All Mankind' imagines an alternate timeline where Sergei Korolev survived and advanced the Soviet space program.
- ▪The series spans decades, depicting a world where humans live on Mars by an alternate 2012.
- ▪'The Man in the High Castle' is set in a world where the Axis powers won World War II and divided the United States.
- ▪'The Right Stuff' dramatizes the early days of the U.S. space program and the creation of astronaut mythology.
- ▪Both shows, like 'For All Mankind,' combine historical events with speculative storytelling.
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Apple TV's sci-fi series For All Mankind starts with a tantalizing alt-history premise: What if Soviet space pioneer Sergei Korolev hadn’t died prematurely in 1966, but instead helped bring his country’s space program into full bloom, extending the space race indefinitely?If America and the world had been forced to continue the space program, our past (and present) would look quite different—at least according to this show, which jumps across decades to imagine how that might have unfolded in an alternate past. (By the current fifth season, set in alt-2012, some humans are living off-planet in a Martian habitat.) For All Mankind is both a great, generally hopeful alt-history narrative and a grounded, compelling science fiction show.
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