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For All Mankind

Where: Apple TV+
What: Series, Season 4, 10 episodes, 55 mins.
When: Now, new episodes Fridays
Genre: Drama
Rating: NNNN (out of 5)
Why you should watch: Not just for Boomers anymore, this space race-based historical fiction which started with the ’60s race to the moon makes it into the 2000s in its fourth season. It reimagines a world where the Soviet Union never collapsed and John Lennon lived to play the Super Bowl, among other juicy historical twists. It’s a jumble of truths mixed with “what ifs,” so we get Gorbachev struggling to stay in power, flip phones and joint Soviet/American colonies on the moon and Mars, all with private sector partners. Crew members rock out to The Strokes as they land on the Red Planet and Gorillaz are on the playlist on the moon. Over-acted, sometimes over-wrought but ultimately, the premise is cool enough to be satisfying.