Star City Review: Anna Maxwell Martin and Rhys Ifans Drama Is Worlds Away From For All Mankind - and All the Better for It

Star City review: Anna Maxwell Martin and Rhys Ifans drama is worlds away from For All Mankind - and all the better for it

Not all spin-offs are created equal. Some are terrible, others are good, and a select few prove better than the original show they are based on. It’s on that final list that Star City deserves a place.The new cosmic Apple TV drama is a prequel to For All Mankind (season 5's finale airs Friday 29 May). Part alternative history, part political thriller, it’s a gripping drama that explores what would have happened had the Soviet Union not only won …

Star City TV Review: The For All Mankind spin-off makes for an impressive companion series

Plot: Expanding the world of For All Mankind, Star City is a propulsive paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race – when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers, and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and …

Sci Fi TV Highlights: Premieres for Star City and Spider-Noir, Brandon Sanderson's Skyward Heads to Television, and More

Sci Fi TV Highlights: Weekly post looking at the upcoming schedule of sci fi and fantasy shows as well as recent news and/or trailers of note.  The dates and times shown below can change with little to no notice. Sci Fi TV Premieres: Star City (Apple TV): This spin-off of For All Mankind delivers a propulsive paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race — when the Soviet Union became the f…