For All Mankind
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Welcome to the retrospective recaps ofFor All Mankindseason two.
The season-two premiere ofFor All Mankindencourages viewers to consider the ways time and experience affect ambition and optimism.
Is it a bit of both?
Her radiation-indicator badge is still green, for crying out loud; whats the problem?
Ellen, ever the voice of implacable reason, has made up her mind, though.
This episode is particularly economical and brisk (yet unhurried!)
A highlight amid the highlights is a scene at home with Ellen and Larry.
As far as fake marriages of convenience go, the Wilsons is very good.
Their mutual platonic affection is sincere and rooted in excellent friendship chemistry, and their arrangements are mutually beneficial.
Once Ellen leaves the ease of her bubble at home, things slide into chaos.
Not a great first day.
The rest of the episode is a series of scenes pondering the theme of whats next.
Or pretty much all the time?
A great scene of the Baldwins and Cobbs golfing together drives home Eds updated philosophy even more plainly.
about personal and professional priorities.
He misses being up in space, doing the real work, right?
Well, yes and no.
Summed up neatly, its not pushing the envelope, but …
I dont know, sometimes its just more important to be with the people you love thandoingwhat you love.
Hes not blowing smoke, either.
Shanes death and Mollys likely shortened life expectancy hang silently in the air between them.
How is this Baldwin ex machina going to turn out?
Speaking of spiels and Gordo: sigh.
Even as the Baldwins and Dani are being driven by earnest self-reflection, the Stevenses are flailing in space.
Does she even reallywantto go back up there?
Kelly cant bring herself to tell her parents that she wants to apply to the U.S.
Naval Academy; like her Dad before her, shes in thrall to the romance of flight.
Instead, shes tucking her USNA student prospectus away like its a nudie magazine.
Can we not imagine a reality that includesbothan un-assassinated John Lennonandmore steps toward LGBTQ+ liberation?
At the other end of the spectrum, poor Ellen and her ill-fitting red blazer.
Check theFor All Mankindpage this Friday for episodes three and four.
