For All Mankind Renewed for Season 5 — Plus, Star City Spinoff Ordered at Apple
Apple TV+ has taken one giant leap with its For All Mankind universe.
In addition to renewing its alt-history space drama for Season 5 on Wednesday, the streamer has also ordered a spinoff titled Star City, TVLine has learned.
Described as a “propulsive paranoid thriller,” Star City will take viewers back to a key moment in For All Mankind‘s retelling of the space race: when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. “But this time,” the logline reads, “we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward.”
Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, all of whom co-created For All Mankind, are behind Star City, with Wolpert and Nedivi serving as showrunners on the offshoot.
“Our fascination with the Soviet space program has grown with every season of For All Mankind,” Wolpert and Nedivi said in a statement. “The more we learned about this secret city in the forests outside Moscow where the Soviet cosmonauts and engineers worked and lived, the more we wanted to tell this story of the other side of the space race. We could not be more excited to continue building out the alternate history universe of For All Mankind with our partners at Apple and Sony.”
For All Mankind‘s Season 4 finale — which dropped on Jan. 12 — concluded with a nine-year time jump from 2003 to 2012, which revealed that asteroid Goldilocks is now home to the Kuznetsov Station. The episode was less clear about which characters had made it to that future. Earlier in the hour, a riot broke out on Mars between the Helios workers and security, leading Dani to get shot, but she miraculously survived and made it back down to Earth to reunite with her family. Meanwhile, Margo was arrested by the FBI for sabotaging NASA’s mission, and Ed’s declining health and his role in the riot left his future in question.
Addressing whether the trio of original series stars would return for another season, Nedivi obliquely told TVLine, “We’re always also thinking about [how] for this show to work, you have to evolve the cast. You have to say goodbye to some of the characters and actors we love the most, and introduce new characters as we go.
“If we feel there’s no more story to tell with [a] character, and by story, I mean good, meaty story, then that’s usually the sign that it’s time to move on,” Nedivi added.
For All Mankind‘s renewal and spinoff order come just days after Apple TV+’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters received similarly good, universe-expanding news. How are you feeling about these For All Mankind announcements? Hit the comments!
a) Love the renewal!!! Cant wait for the new season
b) Star City – sounds interesting, but I am a bit concern about the potential OVER use of subtitle translation. It is one thing to use it a few times – but if the whole series is like that, it can be bit distracting / confusing.
Different cultures in the same place speaking different languages. I don’t think it’s over usage, just being culturally accurate.
Oh no! Subtitles!
*laughs in non-English*
It the Russians are speaking English, I won’t be watching.
subtitles can go both ways for me. If I’m just watching one episode it might take me a while to ‘warm up’ my eyes, but if I were watching multiple episodes then by the time I start the second I’ll be reading so fast I barely notice the difference.
Really? I have subtitles on all the time – for all shows (other than news / live shows). It takes a bit to get used, but it’s second nature now.
There’s a different between having it on as a supplement in the same language, and having to rely on reading it because it’s a different language (I’m fine with watching shows in another language as long as I don’t have too many at a time, as I like to do other things that divert my eyes from the screen)
Personally, I hope the entire season is in Russian with English subtitles for the entirety of its run. Unless there is a character from the US on screen, there is simply no need for English-language audio except for SDH.
Too much is lost in translation with content that is dubbed in English, and for a show that is centered around Star City & Cosmonauts – I highly doubt there will be many characters whose primary language is English. The sheer number of absolutely incorrect translations present in the The awful English dubbing on Netflix is a prime example of why I’ve refused to watch anything from outside the US unless it’s with its original language provided with English subtitles. Most of the dubbing voices sound like the awful AI voice models that TikTok uses, outside of the various acquired Studio Ghibli & Funimation productions.
But when do we get the spinoff about John Lennon?
One of the best shows on right now. Every episode is well written, well acted, and leaves you on the edge of your seat waiting for the next one.
Excellent news about the renewal ! Not really interested in Star City though.