We watched half an episode and my girlfriend decided that season 3 would be too sad, so we skipped the rest.
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Apple TV+ is one of way too many streaming services I'm subscribed to
- Thread starter jpfriction
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Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Best Buy is doing 3 months of Apple TV free again.
Also several other services, including Apple Arcade.
Also several other services, including Apple Arcade.
Just in time for Masters of the Air
John
(he/him)
I just saw that Schmigadoon! is not getting a Season 3, despite having all the scripts, and 25 new songs written. I get it, it's very niche and probably didn't get a return from Apple, but we liked the first two seasons. If you have any interest in Broadway style musicals and references to them, there's two seasons to watch. First had Brigadoon, Carousel, The Music Man, and other 40's/50's musicals, and season 2 was 60's/70's like Chicago, Cabaret, and Hair. They haven't dropped all the hints on what Season 3 would've been like, beyond the obvious 80's/90's hits like Phantom, Les Mis, and Cats, but the creator did call out Rainbow Connection as a theme.
For All Mankind Season 4 wrapped up a week or so ago. I don't think this season was nearly as good as previous ones. But part of that is simply due to the shift in cast over the years. Almost all of the interesting characters from Season 1 (As well as a few not-interesting ones) have moved on, so it's left the show feeling very different. Not necessarily bad, just different.
Season 4 - taking place in the 2000s - also had a very different vibe than the first three seasons. Maybe it's just because the timeline is catching up with modern day, or because the timeline has now diverged so significantly that the world FAM is trying to portray is now almost unrecognizable to our own. But it's a different feel. Earth doesn't feel like it's an important part of the setting anymore outside of Mission Control; almost everything takes place on Mars now.
Because the timeline is now so split, they can't really talk directly about the real world problems that we (humanity broadly; America specifically) faced during these decades anymore. Season 3 - set in the 90s - still heavily discussed the economic turmoil of the 90s and the rise of domestic terrorism; just shifted and abstracted to work in parallel in this fictional setting. (Instead of workers disenfranchised and radicalized by globalization of the economy, it became about workers disenfranchised by the radical shift in the energy sector away from fossil fuels.) This season was even more abstracted, as all the conflicts in the Middle East just straight up don't happen in this timeline and/or happen without our intervention and are purely a local matter. So instead, the season is more about the erosion of worker rights under unfettered capitalism, and how extremist oligarchs seizing control in Russia.
It'll be interesting to see where the show could possibly go from here. Mostly on an intellectual level though.
Season 4 - taking place in the 2000s - also had a very different vibe than the first three seasons. Maybe it's just because the timeline is catching up with modern day, or because the timeline has now diverged so significantly that the world FAM is trying to portray is now almost unrecognizable to our own. But it's a different feel. Earth doesn't feel like it's an important part of the setting anymore outside of Mission Control; almost everything takes place on Mars now.
Because the timeline is now so split, they can't really talk directly about the real world problems that we (humanity broadly; America specifically) faced during these decades anymore. Season 3 - set in the 90s - still heavily discussed the economic turmoil of the 90s and the rise of domestic terrorism; just shifted and abstracted to work in parallel in this fictional setting. (Instead of workers disenfranchised and radicalized by globalization of the economy, it became about workers disenfranchised by the radical shift in the energy sector away from fossil fuels.) This season was even more abstracted, as all the conflicts in the Middle East just straight up don't happen in this timeline and/or happen without our intervention and are purely a local matter. So instead, the season is more about the erosion of worker rights under unfettered capitalism, and how extremist oligarchs seizing control in Russia.
It'll be interesting to see where the show could possibly go from here. Mostly on an intellectual level though.
jpfriction
(He, Him)
They could always have Trump get elected, scrap NASA and redouble efforts to use domestic fossil fuel sources, ruining the world and effectively reuniting the timeline.
(Maybe this already happened, I only made it a few episodes into season 2 before getting distracted).
(Maybe this already happened, I only made it a few episodes into season 2 before getting distracted).
I assure you that's not going to happen. It's essentially a physical impossibility in the FAM world, since all of the factors that led to Trump don't exist in this timeline. But beyond that, it would be a betrayal of the core themes of the show - that we're voyeuristically looking in on a better timeline.
jpfriction
(He, Him)
I do not actually think they will or should do such a horrible idea.