It’s finally back. After a two-year wait, the fifth season of Apple TV’s most underrated show, For All Mankind, is ready to grace our TVs. When last we left the alternate universe space show, astronauts on Mars had basically stolen an asteroid filled with priceless materials to ensure their space exploration continued. Now, in its first tease, it seems that’s going quite well.
For All Mankind season five begins on March 27, and while what you’ll see below isn’t a full trailer, it gives us a perfect taste of what might be to come now that Mars is a big, thriving community.
That’s Sean Kaufman as Alex Baldwin, the grandson of the show’s original star, Ed Baldwin, played by Joel Kinnaman. We don’t see him in the teaser, but some new press images do give us a clue of what he’s up to, and the answer is “Being old.”
That’s Ed with his daughter Kelly (Cynthy Wu), who herself is starting to get up there. They’re joined by returning stars Toby Kebbell, Edi Gathegi, Coral Peña, and Wrenn Schmidt, as well as newcomers Mireille Enos, Costa Ronin, Ruby Cruz, and Ines Asserson.
Set in the 2010s, season five “picks up in the years since the Goldilocks asteroid heist,” reads a press release. “Happy Valley has grown into a thriving colony with thousands of residents and a base for new missions that will take us even further into the solar system. But with the nations of Earth now demanding law and order on the Red Planet, friction continues to build between the people who live on Mars and their former home.”
For our money, For All Mankind has been one of the best shows on TV every single season so far. However, for some reason, it just never gets the love fellow Apple TV shows share. Why exactly that is, we don’t know, but we do know that if you haven’t seen the show, you have three months to catch up before season five. You will not regret it.
The 10-episode fifth season of For All Mankind begins on March 27 and will debut a new episode each Friday leading up to the finale on May 29. Will it finally catch up to our reality? How much longer can we go? We’ll find out soon.
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