7 New TV Shows to Watch This Week, From ‘For All Mankind’ to ‘Ms. Marvel’
04.06.2022 - 23:07
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“For All Mankind”Friday, June 10, Apple TV+“For All Mankind” has been heralded as one of the greatest shows on TV. And that isn’t an unfair assessment. It’s an alternate history look at the space race.
Instead of beating Russia to the moon, the U.S. followed them. Real-life heroes are dramatized alongside wholly made-up characters.
And everything is rendered in such vivid detail, both conceptually and emotionally, that it feels like watching a historical dramatization of something that actually happened but never did. The third season of the show skips forward yet again; not quite to the 1995 that was teased at the very end of Season 2, but slightly before, as NASA, Russia and a private spaceflight firm (sound familiar?) begin a three-way race to Mars. What’s more, it’s set against the backdrop of the 1992 election cycle; only instead of Bob Dole, Bill Clinton is running against Jodi Balfour’s Ellen Wilson.
That’s really all we can give away with good conscience. If you’ve been watching the show, you’re already pumped for Season 3. If you’re new to it and intrigued, you have time to catch up.
It’s one small step, really. [TRAILER]“The Staircase”Thursday, June 9, HBO Max“The Staircase” really should have been a sensation. If it had been on linear HBO, maybe it would have been.
This series had everything that usually makes for what used to be referred to as water-cooler television – based-on-a-true-story salaciousness, killer twists, weird sex scenes, an owl attack. But it has fallen between the cracks, probably due to the crush of great new programming this spring and, again, because it’s only on HBO Max. “The Staircase” is also full of dynamo performances, led by Colin Firth as a bizarro failed journalist who may or may
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