For All Mankind Season 4 Episode 1 Breakdown | Recap & Review

The year is 2003 and 8 years have passed between For All Mankind Season 3 and 4. The first episode of the fourth season has premiered on Apple TV+ and a lot has changed in the show's alternate timeline. The space race has given way to cooperation with the formation of the Mars 7 Alliance, and the focus has shifted to mining mineral-rich asteroids rather than pure exploration for the sake of discovery.

The older astronaut characters Ed Baldwin (Joel Kinnaman), and Danielle Poole (Krys Marshall) are nearing the end of their careers. Margo Madison (Wrenn Schmidt) is living an isolated life in hiding in Moscow. Kelly Baldwin's (Cynthy Wu) child that she was carrying on Mars is growing up, and Aleida Rosales (Coral Peña) is suffering from PTSD as a result of the Johnson Space Center bombing.

S4, E1
Glasnost
Eight years later, a new mission begins: Capture an asteroid. Aleida and Danielle are still haunted by events from the past.
Originally aired on NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Official Apple TV+ Logline:
Rocketing into the new millennium in the eight years since season three, Happy Valley has rapidly expanded its footprint on Mars by turning former foes into partners. Now 2003, the focus of the space program has turned to the capture and mining of extremely valuable, mineral-rich asteroids that could change the future of both Earth and Mars. But simmering tensions between the residents of the now-sprawling international base threaten to undo everything they are working towards.

Chapter Timestamps:
0:00 Intro/Time Jump
3:24 Episode 1 Recap
12:32 Review/Thoughts

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[PetePeppers]

I like seeing regular people getting involved with space travel and working in space becoming an option for wage earners. Ed not wanting to go back home because it would likely be the end of his time as an astronaut also feels like a nice setup. This felt like a solid start all the way around. Let me know what you think.

[Kafka_on_the_plane]

If, in the alternate timeline, it takes just 31 days to get to Mars, one would expect that they also send a manned exploratory mission to Jupiter. That would be, in ideal conditions, done in around 45 days. Saturn takes roughly 90 days, all less than it took to fly to Mars in season 3. In any case a great start of a new season!

[KatharineOsborne]

God I cried like a baby during the intro news sequence. The world just seems so optimistic. Also maybe I haven’t realised earlier just how much of a space nerd I am. Love this show.

[themojoverse]

Man it's gonna be so sad when Joel leaves the show. We've followed Ed for basically his whole adult life. That said, I feel like he either won't make it back to Earth or he'll die towards the end of this season after getting back to Earth. Either way, I'm happy the show is back on but I have a bad feeling about this🥺

[akorn]

I was so happy to see Commander Kuznetsov return, it was great to finally have a main character Cosmonaut to root for, but damn :/
I’m really interested to continue seeing stories from the Soviet side of this world. I think the greatest part of season one besides just cool space stuff was seeing Ed’s cosmonaut prisoner-turned-ally and seeing that there’s just real people behind all of these conflicts. Getting to see our heroes befriend Kuznetsov took that to another level and I think those real human connections and relationships are ultimately what makes the heart of this show. I’m still depressed rn but I can’t wait to see what they do next.

[Marg_Sabl]

My headcannon with Danny is kinda sad but makes sense. I think he took his own life. He was exiled, Ridden with grief and guilt and left alone to stew in all this with almost no human contact. What was also left out there near the North Korean ship was a handgun. Maybe Danielle blames herself bc she thinks that if she didn’t exile him, he would’ve have had the support he needed.

[thomasjulian]

I like Miles. I was worried I wasn't going to but he seems like a solid addition. I DO hope we get some flashbacks of Kuz and Poole on Mars to see how they became friends and how they helped each other. The guy that plays Kuz is a really good and natural actor. Would love to see how he warms up to Dannielle over time.

[dragoninthewest]

12:19 Cannabis is sometimes used to manage Parkinson's

[garymcwilliams]

I normally don’t like programs when they get far away from the original season, the first season is what you fall in love with, and while I miss the show in the 60s and the characters from then, this show is doing a great job in making me enjoy the new seasons as they come out, will be sad to see Ed move on, as I do worry about the risk of a new lead being someone I dislike, but enjoying where the show is heading, I know it’s only been episode one, but has it been approved for a season 5? Would love to be able to enjoy the season knowing it isn’t the end.

Ps I wasn’t expecting Pete to upload this today! I was expecting Sunday maybe by the time he got round to a script and getting the clips, great work. Love his breakdown of this show, only watched the show for the first time 2 months ago, then watched his breakdown videos, it’s incredible how he predicts things so well in previous seasons, so looking for ward to this run of videos, this is my first time watching along as the show airs, looking forward to the ride

[Lesiunta]

I felt like Aleida's struggle presented to us this season is a conjunction of things: PTSD from the bombing, which to me is like the 9/11 event in an alternate timeline, hence the beefed up security, and second, her Dad's issues he suffered when he was on in the earlier seasons. Probably foreshadowing of things to come.

[jesse]

I am almost certain those scenes of her walking around in a 'Russian' town were actually filmed in Sofia, Bulgaria. I lived there and some of the buildings looked very familiar.

[chifurbr]

so far the space accidents have been somewhat believable (suspension of disbelief is a big part of sci-fi) but the whole asteroid sequence, from the contraption they made to the astronauts going out because reasons was a head scratcher. On the show's direction, i get where they're going and why but I'm not entirely convinced how well received this shift will be. And on Danny Stevens destiny, his actor is not credited in any of the episodes so yeah, he died in Mars

[Rygoat]

I dont know what initially spawned my dream of space mining, but it's one I've always been fascinated by it. This episode left me in awe, it was equal parts inspiring and terrifying

[NastyHudson]

Second rewatch of this show and subsequent channel episodes. I enjoyed this content. ♥️

[SpartanNat]

This season really feels so far like the equivalent of NASA’s “Faster, Better, Cheaper, ” era irl, which notably featured multiple major mission failures due to it not being possibly to do all 3 successfully.

[phillipleavenworth]

I don't see Ed being excluded from space travel in season 5, if he doesn't die or something. I can see him being a celebrity guest on a space yacht around the Moon ala Clarke's 2061.

[deanzaZZR]

"just need to wrangle [asteroids] into Mars' orbit" 🤣😆🤣 I am curious to know why Canada and China are not participating in M7. I hope we find out.

[francesco]

I can't wait to see all the new episodes of this series! and especially your videos about it! I wanted to ask you if you will also do a series for " Monarch: legacy of The monster " and " Masters of The Air " are both on Apple TV+!!

[jacobdenness]

With Russia I think the attempt cue against corbershov that happened in our time line is going to happen here but a little later and one side is looking to recruit her

[GrainOnTheGo]

As much as I despise Ed still being around, I also like that the show at least acknowledges that he himself knows his time is almost up. That if he goes home, this is it. Hopefully with the jump S5 will likely make he just retires already or is forced to. I can't imagine Ed in the 2010s still be around, he'd be in his late 80s early 90s. Otherwise this season has me excited, seems like it's back on course from the more lighthearted S3 setting.