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- He, Him
- Bradford, UK
- Seen Oct 11, 2024
UEFA Euro 2024
Love this show!!! Its the only thing that gets me subscribed to Apple TV+ (there's a lot of good stuff so if I'm in the mood I'll go full binge mode while its airing weekly, but its the only one where I'm like "I need to see this"). Joel Kinnaman does barely suppressed rage so well.Season 1 of For All Mankind
It's a nice series- different. It's scifi, but it's not really meant to be an adventure story- it is mostly a serious drama, even broodin. There are some suspenseful, action scenes of things like trying rescue crew members or test pilot vehicles, but more of it is about human life.
This flavor of scifi also doesn't come from a distant future with interstellar voyages, it's more subtle science, set in the 1970s, imagining what would happen if the space race between the US and the Soviet Union had continued to ramp up, and gives us a look at a world that's 99% familiar as our past, but with a few things happening another way, and how that comes to shape geopolitical events in new ways, causing social progress and advances in technology to occur sooner then they did.
It's a smart show with believable science and politics. The acting is flawless across the entire cast and the production design looks just right. It also weaves together multiple perspectives men, women, black, white, latino, lgbt, Americans as well as Russians during the cold world in a way that I think is interesting, and also discusses important topics like mental health, specifically ptsd.
It can get a little talky and sometimes it takes time to get back to characters, but I basically like it, and am ready to check out season 2, since I have an apple tv subscription. So far I have watched Blackbird, Dark Matter, and now this. All good.
It's a tough one to compare. The Terminator and especially Terminator 2 Judgment Day are two of my alltime favourite movies, but I've very strongly disliked any that came after those (Rise of the machines and Genisys were particularly dreadful movies imo.)I've been thinking of starting it myself. How does it compare to the original movies?
It's a tough one to compare. The Terminator and especially Terminator 2 Judgment Day are two of my alltime favourite movies, but I've very strongly disliked any that came after those (Rise of the machines and Genisys were particularly dreadful movies imo.)
The anime has a lot of familiar things from the first movies for sure, but also does a lot different and introduces some cool new concepts. If you have ever seen The Sarah Connor Chronicles tv series they did in the late 2000s, the anime has also did a couple similar themes that were introduced in that as well.