'Star City' Review: For All Mankind Spin-Off Explores the Soviet Side of the Space Race
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Johnny Loftus
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Summary
Star City is a spin-off of For All Mankind that shifts focus to the Soviet space program during the alternate history timeline where the USSR beat the US to the moon. Set at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center outside Moscow, the series explores life behind the Iron Curtain, following Soviet cosmonauts, engineers, and their families as they navigate the pressures of secrecy, political control, and personal ambition within the space race.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThis is a place of secrets, a place where you do what you're told. But there is also promise.
The Russians have beaten the Americans to the moon, and despite the lack of autonomy for women in Soviet society, the space...
The alternate television history of space and the 20th century continues.
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