Triage
- Episode aired Apr 16, 2021
- TV-MA
- 56m
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8.7/10
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The rivalry between American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts intensifies as last-minute changes impact the Pathfinder mission plan.The rivalry between American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts intensifies as last-minute changes impact the Pathfinder mission plan.The rivalry between American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts intensifies as last-minute changes impact the Pathfinder mission plan.
Casey W. Johnson
- Danny Stevens
- (credit only)
Storyline
Did you know
- Trivia"NERVA", the nuclear propulsion system for the Shuttle "Pathfinder" is also the name of the propulsion system used on the British Shuttle "Churchill" in the 1985 film Lifeforce (1985).
Both were inspired by an actual, but never-used NASA propulsion design.
- GoofsWhile awaiting Soviet retaliation, Commander Rossi would have had someone monitoring Jamestown Base's perimeter.
- Quotes
Ellen Wilson: This isn't good.
Margo Madison: Wars have started over a lot less. World War One started with a gunshot and killed 20 million people.
Nelson Bradford: If this turns into World War Three, 20 million is going to seem like a car accident.
- ConnectionsReferences Star Trek (1966)
- SoundtracksFor All Mankind Theme
Written by Jeff Russo
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Dark side and light side
Things escalate from bad to worse on For All Mankind Season 2 Episode 9, "Triage", as the Jamestown astronauts try to save the one still-living cosmonaut shot at the mining site while Margo, Ellen, and the rest of the NASA crew try to prevent the U. S. and the U. S. S. R from going to war over what took place on the moon. Meanwhile, bigger dangers lurk in the distance as Ed's Pathfinder launch is moved up so that an armed shuttle can be present (if need be) to face off against a Soviet shuttle, which intel reports confirm is also now armed. The thing is, this all feels so inevitable. Like, is anyone surprised? Even though this is an alternate historical reality there's just no way that this could have ever ended any other way once the American government decided to put weapons in space. The only reason it probably took as long as it did was so the big American/USSR face-off could happen in the finale. To be fair, it's thrilling television. Most of these characters are fairly second-tier, so it feels like literally anything could happen at this point and all lives are genuinely at risk. For All Mankind rightly doesn't pull any punches about what a huge screw up this has all been on the part of the Americans, and the anger of the Russian cosmonauts as well as Helen's guilt over her involvement in taking a man's life is properly given space to breathe. Back on Earth, Karen decides to come clean with Ed about her infidelity, though thankfully she doesn't tell him that it was their friend's college-age son. There's a certain rushed quality to it all . She admits that she's not sure whether she wants to stay in their marriage, and though I suspect Ed's subsequent bender and near-hookup with a random Outpost patron before he realizes he can't go through within is meant to make us feel sympathetic toward him, it doesn't entirely work for me. Speaking of people in relationships that need to get out of them, Ellen's have-it-both ways situation of getting a relationship with Pam and a Senate-confirmable job at NASA falls apart when Lee Atwater shows up to convince her husband that Ellen should run for Congress. Pam overhears all this and realizes there's no place in the Republican party for an out Ellen with a girlfriend and leaves her a note saying she's gone back to the girlfriend we met a few episodes ago. This is all very neat and convenient, but there's some part of me that's more than a little annoyed that For All Mankind gave Ellen such an easy out, one in which she herself had to make no hard choices or decide what it was she really wanted.
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- Aug 12, 2022
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- Runtime56 minutes
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