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I really enjoyed "For All Mankind" from Apple. I'm surprised that this tv show is not more popular.

by Thaxll 5y ago

tnorthcutt 5y ago
Same here. Between this, Ted Lasso, and Trying, I'm extremely impressed with the original content they're putting out.
- headmelted 5y ago
  Really impressed with TL and FAM so will have to give Trying a.. umm… try. Pun not intended but I’m not displeased that it happened either.
gertrunde 5y ago
I was under the impression it was one of their bigger shows? (Although I'm clearly living under a rock or something, as I don't think I've heard of any of the shows mentioned in the linked article - although I think that goes for a lot of the Apple media stuff, maybe they don't advertise to the cheap seats? Not sure.)
jedberg 5y ago
It's a one hour heavy drama, so it's harder to consume. I watched all of Ted Lasso in two days, I'm still working my way through For All Mankind. Only so many episodes I can watch in a day before I need to decompress.
headmelted 5y ago
It’s honestly IMHO among the best television series that have ever been made. I could bore with the multitude of reasons why I think that but I really believe it’s just top-to-bottom incredible.
baq 5y ago
it really is great. a close second for me, right behind the expanse.
ffhhj 5y ago
It's a show that doesn't know which its audience is. You have to make an effort to block their emotionally overloaded content (people screaming, people stressed, guy finds sexy woman in bar and takes her to bed, wife finds young guy in bar and takes him to bed). If you watch it for the sci-fi content you will find yourself fast-forwarding all the BS.
carabiner 5y ago
Did the premise of FAM seem like a really algo-derived mashup to anyone else? The alternate history (like Man in the High Castle) plus feminism (like Handmaid's Tale) plus scifi seemed so intentional and contrived, similar to Netflix's Bright.
- mbreese 5y ago
  I don't know... I thought it all seemed pretty plausible. Given a few different turns in history, and the entire premise is pretty believable. Even aspects like the feminism push could be seen as a likely outcome of further US/Soviet competition... and it's presented cynically in the show to that effect. As far as alternative histories go, it's much more plausible than the Man in the High Castle.
- GeekyBear 5y ago
  >The alternate history (like Man in the High Castle) plus feminism (like Handmaid's Tale) plus scifi seemed so intentional and contrived Not contrived at all. >The Mercury 13: The women who could have been NASA's first female astronauts https://www.space.com/mercury-13.html https://www.space.com/mercury-13.html

I really enjoyed "For All Mankind" from Apple. I'm surprised that this tv show is not more popular.

by Thaxll 5y ago

I really enjoyed "For All Mankind" from Apple. I'm surprised that this tv show is not more popular.

tnorthcutt 5y ago

Same here. Between this, Ted Lasso, and Trying, I'm extremely impressed with the original content they're putting out.

headmelted 5y ago
Really impressed with TL and FAM so will have to give Trying a.. umm… try. Pun not intended but I’m not displeased that it happened either.

gertrunde 5y ago

I was under the impression it was one of their bigger shows? (Although I'm clearly living under a rock or something, as I don't think I've heard of any of the shows mentioned in the linked article - although I think that goes for a lot of the Apple media stuff, maybe they don't advertise to the cheap seats? Not sure.)

jedberg 5y ago

It's a one hour heavy drama, so it's harder to consume. I watched all of Ted Lasso in two days, I'm still working my way through For All Mankind. Only so many episodes I can watch in a day before I need to decompress.

headmelted 5y ago

It’s honestly IMHO among the best television series that have ever been made. I could bore with the multitude of reasons why I think that but I really believe it’s just top-to-bottom incredible.

baq 5y ago

it really is great. a close second for me, right behind the expanse.

ffhhj 5y ago

It's a show that doesn't know which its audience is. You have to make an effort to block their emotionally overloaded content (people screaming, people stressed, guy finds sexy woman in bar and takes her to bed, wife finds young guy in bar and takes him to bed). If you watch it for the sci-fi content you will find yourself fast-forwarding all the BS.

carabiner 5y ago

Did the premise of FAM seem like a really algo-derived mashup to anyone else? The alternate history (like Man in the High Castle) plus feminism (like Handmaid's Tale) plus scifi seemed so intentional and contrived, similar to Netflix's Bright.

mbreese 5y ago
I don't know... I thought it all seemed pretty plausible. Given a few different turns in history, and the entire premise is pretty believable. Even aspects like the feminism push could be seen as a likely outcome of further US/Soviet competition... and it's presented cynically in the show to that effect. As far as alternative histories go, it's much more plausible than the Man in the High Castle.
GeekyBear 5y ago
>The alternate history (like Man in the High Castle) plus feminism (like Handmaid's Tale) plus scifi seemed so intentional and contrived Not contrived at all. >The Mercury 13: The women who could have been NASA's first female astronauts https://www.space.com/mercury-13.html https://www.space.com/mercury-13.html