That Ronald D. Moore sure knows his way around the science fiction genre, having slaved in the Star Trek story mines for ages before bringing us the peerless Battlestar Galactica remake and the wildly popular time travel/historical romance Outlander. But his most ambitious work to date is the alternate history For All Mankind, whose fourth season is about to splash down.
When is For All Mankind season 4 being released in New Zealand?
For All Mankind hits Apple TV+ in New Zealand on November 10.
For All Mankind: Season 4
What is For All Mankind season 4 about?
Uh, how long have you got? For All Mankind posits a history that diverges from our own in the ’60s, most notably when the Soviets beat the US to the moon, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov leaving his bootprints on the lunar surface in 1969. From there, the Space Race continues to escalate, as the superpowers rush to explore—and exploit—the solar system.
But what’s really cool is that each season jumps about a decade into the future, and season 4 kicks off in the early 2000s, with the colonisation of Mars well underway and various interests eyeing the mineral-rich asteroid belt. Rooted in real physics and plausible technology, this is a genuine hard SF epic.
The cast of For All Mankind season 4
The series boasts an ensemble cast, including returning players Joel Kinnaman, Jodi Balfour, Krys Marshall, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, Casey W. Johnson, Coral Peña, and Wrenn Schmidt, plus newcomers Toby Kebbell, Daniel Stern, Tyner Rushing, and Svetlana Efremova.
For All Mankind season 4 trailer
Why we’re excited about For All Mankind season 4
As fans of alternative history we’ve been a bit down in the dumps since The Man in the High Castle ended. Seriously, though: For All Mankind is a big swing and we’re here for it. It’s smart, textured, ambitious, beautifully shot, insanely well cast… and almost nobody’s talking about it. In about a decade people will be calling it one of the hidden gems of the Golden Age of Streaming, so why not beat the rush so you can act smug when the rest of the world catches up?
