For All Mankind (TV Series) Home Again (2019) User Reviews

"Every Bureaucracy Is Corrupt...

[grnwltr-11212 · 8/10 · 2 February 2022]

...so permit me to contribute to that corruption". Margot Madison, having been informed by von Braun of the political expediency that resulted in the deaths of 11 NASA employees, is given the opportunity to do the right thing. Von Braun knows precisely what is going to happen to his findings: they will be buried in the grave known as "national security". Madison can counter that action at the cost of her career. What does she do?

What she does is blackmail the Chief of NASA to promote her to a position commensurate with her evaluation of herself. She has made a copy of the report but will not release it if her demands are met. And so the public will never know the truth. Her colleagues will never learn the truth.

The satisfactory resolution, the one we have come to expect from American television, would be Madison's personal sacrifice for the common good. This episode confronts that fantasy and places on display the petty weaknesses that guide so many decision.

Great acting, incredible music, solid storyline

[James0987 · 9/10 · 14 March 2021]

The acting in the episode might be the best yet, I'm really liking where this show is heading and I can't believe I waited so long to watch it. Oh the music knocks it out of the park yet again.

Political systems are flawed and bureaucracies corrupt

[bosporan · 8/10 · 15 May 2022]

A less suspenseful episode, despite a dramatic tragedy. It deals with life on the ground with Karen becoming a de facto mother to Tracy's son and Margo facing rejection and discovering realpolitik.

Shantel VanSanten has been fabulous throughout, this time she is joined on the top step by Wrenn Schmidt. Her portrayal of the reticent, socially-awkward, yet brilliant Margo is superb, bringing a range of emotion and action, from rage at being overlooked, through resolve to hit back, to a desire to pay her success forward.

Unbelievable Acting by Colm Feore

[babyface_kostas · 10/10 · 29 January 2021]

His words about "climbing the ladder", self assets (value) and "team play" hit egos like a hammer and puts everyone in front of his mirror...so to face the only reality in the carreer environment (as a public servant, i saw it, clearly). It's the unique way he's talking that delivers this raw sense. So... 10/10 for that moment.

Moon stuff is very interesting

[moviesfilmsreviewsinc · 10/10 · 12 August 2022]

The explosion of the launch shuttle, taking out the maintenance crew and Eric Laden's Gene Kranz, is certainly a surprise, the loss of life also leaving Ed, Gordo, and Danielle (at least for now) stranded at the moon base in a situation where the strain and stress of unforeseen consequences weighs heavily on those in the stars, and those at home. The episode becomes a test of hard lessons for characters, as they each find the threshold of their work rubbing against their personal lives. The long-distance relationships between Gordon, Tracy, Karen, and Ed start to find their breaking points. With Gordo and Tracy now separated, and Karen and Ed struggling to talk, the extreme level of long-distance they find themselves in becomes this impossible task of trying to keep a connection when their lives have become so different and now. It's especially apparent during the final scenes, with Ed's thousand-yard stare. Ed, Gordo, and Danielle must be reaching a breaking point, stuck for so long in such a small, isolated quarters, where privacy and time alone is a thing of the past. The monotony of the work and little else is so easy to read on Joel Kinnaman's face, showing that he may not return the same man he lifted off as. The final moment, of Gordo hopping off and noticing red signal lights, brings up a fascinating possibility. The FBI are busy rooting out spies and security risks back at home, but what if Gordo, in need of something new, starts to befriend the Russians? The bases aren't that far apart, in the grand scheme of things, and so a meeting between the two teams isn't out of the realm of possibility. Margo may realize that every system is corrupt, to use her own words, but it's the people doing the best they can who make the difference despite that system.

Worst episode

[urso90 · 6/10 · 24 November 2019]

Predictable and boring. In the first minute I knew a catastrophe was going to happen.

Not quite he worst

[flash-104 · 8/10 · 22 June 2020]

Continued mandatory political lecturing, but some stuff actually worth watching.

Merit

[rccutler-979-943714 · 10/10 · 20 January 2024]

This is a phenomenal episode, one of the best of the series. If I could give it an 11/10 I would. It is not only a scathing indictment of bureaucracy, but an indictment of management at many companies in general. This episode will resonate with anyone who has been passed over for a less qualified, less experienced person. Watching Margot use the information she has been given to advance in the face of an incompetent bureaucracy is very satisfying.

In addition to the great story telling the acting by Colm Feore and Wren Schmidt is fantastic. Easily their best work of the season.

This episode is easily the best of the first season and maybe the best of the entire series.

It's not often

[GoldenGooner04 · 9/10 · 6 September 2022]

I will get hold of a series, and then want to buy it, even thou I can watch it when I want. But this series is "different" Yes I love the NASA stuff, finally got back to NASA in April after 15 years, managed by pure luck to see a Rocket Launch it;s a special place for me Have always loved space and the films, tv stuff.

But yes this show is a bit stupid BUT with the world as it is, can Russia and the world ever work together again? Will their be a new space race?

As for the women in the series, why not? It will happen in the future and why not.

Also this series asks questions they thousands have asked to themselves but it's never been discussed Operation Paperclip.

Without the Nazi Brilliant scientists there would be no NASA, no Space Race. So the stuff with the Nazi Vom Broom makes powerful watching.

The Nazi's were building a nuclear bomb, they also had V3s on the pad which could fly to the US.

The sets for this series are superb the music is perfect.

It's a powerful watch.

Too little of the moon stuff and a lot of boring stuff

[hugoventura09 · 1/10 · 21 March 2021]

All this justice crap it's ruining the show. Too little of the moon stuff and a lot of boring stuff.