Sci-Fi

The following recap contains spoilers for For All Mankind S5E8, “Brave New World” (written by Nina Braddock & Kate Burns and directed by Dan Liu) For All Mankind S5E8 revolves around the M-6 sending troops to Mars in order to quash the rebellion, which is a predictable enough development given how Season 5 has threaded […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for For All Mankind S5E7, “The Sirens of Titan” (written by Jovan Robinson and directed by Dan Liu) For All Mankind S5E7 picks up six months after the end of last week’s episode. In the cold open, Kosmos-1 contacts the Sojourner as both ships approach Saturn. Kosmos-1 is getting there […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for For All Mankind S5E6, “No Sudden Moves” (written by Colby Day and directed by Sylvain White) For All Mankind S5E6 picks up moments after the events of last week’s episode. After their violent altercation with the MPK, the protestors have taken over the MOCC. Gerardo (Salvador Chacon) holds a […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for For All Mankind S5E5, “Svoboda” (written by Kira Snyder and directed by Svlvain White) The cold open of For All Mankind S5E5 shows Irina (Svetlana Efremova) being taken to prison in Siberia in 2003 and follows her 19 months there. Perhaps this reinforces the brutality of the Soviet Union, […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for For All Mankind S5E4, “Open Source” (written by Sabrina Almeida and directed by Meera Menon) For All Mankind S5E4 opens with Alex (Sean Kaufman) and Kelly (Cynthy Wu) going through Ed’s (Joel Kinnaman) things. Alex remarks that they aren’t allowed to have a memorial service for Ed, which seems […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for For All Mankind S5E3, “Home” (written by Nina Braddock and directed by Meera Menon) For All Mankind S5E3 feels, first and foremost, like a swan song for Ed Baldwin (Joel Kinnaman). The opening scene, which flashes back to when Ed’s plane went down in Korea years ago, lands like […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for For All Mankind S5E2, “The Hard Six” (written by Bradley Thompson & David Weddle and directed by Sarah Boyd) For All Mankind S5E2 begins with Lee Jung-gil (C.S. Lee) being taken into custody as various residents of Mars look on. They’re all shook up, and Palmer (Myk Watford) tells […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for For All Mankind S5E1, “First Light” (written by Matt Wolpert & Ben Nedivi and directed by Sarah Boyd) In line with the structure of previous season premieres, For All Mankind S5E1 begins with a barrage of news clips filling us in on what’s happened historically over the course of […] More