For all Mankind spinoff series Star City premieres on Apple TV
Apple TV has premiered the first two episodes of Star City, a For All Mankind spinoff set in the Soviet side of the alternate space race.
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Apple TV has launched Star City, a companion series to For All Mankind that retells the alternate-history space race from the Soviet perspective. The first two episodes are now streaming, and early reviews are described as mostly positive.
Apple TV made a new show called *Star City*. It is part of the same pretend-history world as *For All Mankind*, but it tells the story from the Soviet side.
Think of it like watching the same big race from the other team’s bench. Instead of seeing only one side, the show follows the people building rockets, making plans, and trying to win.
The first two episodes are out now. Early reviews say it feels darker and more like a spy story, which makes it different from the original show.
Analysis
What launched
Apple TV has premiered Star City, a spinoff of For All Mankind. The first two episodes are now available to stream, arriving shortly after the latest season of For All Mankind wrapped on the service.
How it connects to For All Mankind
The new series is set in the same alternate timeline as the parent show, where the Soviet Union reaches the Moon before the United States and the space race develops along a different path. Instead of replaying the story from the American side, Star City shifts the point of view to the Soviet Union and its space program.
The premise Apple is pushing
Apple describes the show as a "propulsive paranoid thriller" that returns to the key moment in the alternate-history space race. The series focuses on cosmonauts, engineers, and intelligence officers inside the Soviet program, and on the risks they take to move human spaceflight forward.
Early reception
The article says first reviews arrived only a few days earlier and were mostly positive. Those reviews reportedly frame Star City as darker and more espionage-driven than For All Mankind, rather than a simple retelling from the other side.
Why this launch matters
For Apple TV, the premiere adds another original series to a lineup that already includes titles such as Severance, The Morning Show, Shrinking, and Silo. It also helps Apple keep a successful franchise moving by expanding its world instead of ending it with one show.
Key points
- Apple TV premiered the first two episodes of Star City.
- The show is a spinoff of For All Mankind and uses the same alternate timeline.
- Star City tells the space-race story from the Soviet perspective.
- Apple says the series follows cosmonauts, engineers, and intelligence officers.
- Early reviews are described as mostly positive and more espionage-driven than the original.
