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(2022)

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9/10
Slow burn payoff
baileybap1 July 2022
For All Mankind is a slowburn, it earns its moments of terror and suspense and mouth-gaping awe. It isn't perfect, but it knows exactly what it's doing.
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9/10
Pick jaw from floor
boggie47581 July 2022
This was a awesome episode. It had me on the edge of my seat. My jaw was on the floor. This is a excellent series. I also will say the music used on this episode was a plus.
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10/10
This episode will rock your world!
KykeAsdf11 July 2022
For all mankind always delivering that goodness,this was a banger! No cap. I love all the multiple subplots aiding unto the big delivery. Cant wait for the next one, as always.
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9/10
A pirates life for me! Yo ho!
burdrogerl1 July 2022
The plot twists keep you thinking/wondering, which I like. Continues to impress with the visuals. Another solid episode. What's next? Will Margo have a another come to Jesus moment?
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10/10
Steamrolled through that ending
rxqlab1 July 2022
This show just keeps surprising me.

As others have stated, it can be a bit of a slow burn while they setup plot pieces. But when the payoff comes due, man can it really pay off.

The ending of this episode with jaw on the floor intense. I watched the last 5 minutes a few times just to burn that imagery into my head.

For other reviewer stating that the pace of technology seems a bit off and that there is no way they would have flat screens by the mid 90s.

You are making me feel old to have to remind you that the first flat screen TV was released by Sony and Philips in 1997. And we had flat screen clam shell laptops in use by Nasa as far back as 1983 (Grid Compass).

Id say they are actually doing pretty well with their estimations for technological advancement.

I think people for get that technology as we experience it is not usually as new as we think it is. We get our hands on technology not as someone invents it, but once its becomes economically viable to mass produce.

Government agencies do not play by those same rules in every instance.
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10/10
15 Minutes of Great TV Writing.
sbilalahmed2 July 2022
Now everyone is going to Mars or No One.

This seasons 4 episodes so far, the last 15 minutes of each episode have been brilliantly written the twists, the political drama narrative building greatly done.

Hope this season continues this way.
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9/10
Again with the incredible suspense
terrylarosa2 July 2022
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As others have said my jaw was on the floor with the suspense filled ending and agonizing cliffhanger. I'd actually remarked to my wife early in the episode that one of the ships would have to be rescued. Now it looks like it might be 2 and all surviving parties will end up on Helios. The unfurling of the solar sail was beautiful to watch. The effects have been outstanding. This show is doing a great job showing us what an actual race to Mars might be like. We're both pulling for Ed to take that first step on Mars. Either way it's going to be an exciting ride.
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10/10
It doesn't get better than this.
scottsideasare2 July 2022
This series just gets better and better. This episode is superb. Secrets, espionage, hubris and compassion. Stunning and unexpected outcomes. It is truly an amazing episode.
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first half boring, second half fun
q-83817-6549903 July 2022
The show has been getting better. This episode is the best so far. Not much happens in the first half of this episode, but it ramps up to an exciting ending. The science is still terribly inaccurate though.
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7/10
Still good, but ...
pocallaghan1 July 2022
The creative impulse to make the story exciting is pushing plausibility out the window. Just one example among many: no matter how much the industry was pushed because of the space race, it's simply not credble that 1994 technology would have flatscreen displays. This is seriously challenging my suspension of disbelief.
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4/10
Unrealistic, even for SciFi
gimmethoseshoes10 January 2024
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It's so unrealistic, even in a show like this, that crews would even be able to course correct and rendezvous with another ship on the way to Mars within a 72 hour window, especially with the ships spaced far apart. They also wouldn't risk the lives of everyone else to save five cosmonauts because of the very thing that happened at the end of the episode - more lives being lost because of the rescue attempt! This kind of deep space rescue requiring nigh impossible odds appears not only in other episodes of this show, but many other shows and movies. Don't even get me started about the loss of a mission that took years of planning and tens to hundreds of billions of dollars of resources. How many times are they going to use a flying errant cable that kills someone? We've seen this already at the start of season 3.
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5/10
It was going great so far...
czat-280732 July 2022
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Come on, real time radio communication between close to Mars and Earth?

The series itself just told the accurate scientific fact a couple of episodes ago that communication between the two places would like like what, 8 minutes? Radio waves traveled at the speed of light last time I checked...

I know we're talking about sci-fi and some artistic choices are justified. But this specific one didn't even serve a purpose to improve the story. I'm very disappointed, just created an IMDB account to point that ¬¬.

Apart from that single fact, a good episode, but it's not a minor detail and it did hurt hehehe.
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