“For All Mankind” is finally making its Season 5 splashdown — with new star Mireille Enos, who joins the cast this season as a member of the Mars peacekeeper security force. The addition reunite Enos with her “The Killing” co-star Joel Kinnaman — although Enos is playing her normal age, while Kinnaman is in a lot of prosthetics in order to play pioneering astronaut Ed Baldwin, now in his 80s.
The 10-episode Season 5 of “For All Mankind,” from creators Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, returns to Apple TV on Friday, March 27, with new episodes every week through May 29.
Here’s this season’s logline: “Season five of ‘For All Mankind’ picks up in the 2010s, years since the Goldilocks asteroid heist. Happy Valley has grown into a thriving colony with thousands of residents and a base for new missions that will take us even further into the solar system. But with the nations of Earth now demanding law and order on the Red Planet, friction continues to build between the people who live on Mars and their former home.”
Specifically, it’s 2012, and Ed’s grandson (played by Kaufman) has just graduated high school, and not quite sure what his destiny is on Mars. But from this trailer, it’s clear the folks on Mars are a bit tired of being ruled by those pesky Earthlings.
Returning cast include Kinnaman, Toby Kebbell, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, Coral Peña and Wrenn Schmidt. Costa Ronin is also back and promoted to seres regular, along with Enos, Sean Kaufman (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”), Ruby Cruz (“Bottoms”) and Ines Asserson (“Royalteen”).
Of course, as we know, the events of “For All Mankind” center on what would have happened to the U.S. space race — and the world — had the Soviets made it to the moon first. The answer is a much more vibrant and advanced space program, to the point that Mars hosts a tremendous colony by the 2010s.
Wolpert and Nedivi are showrunners and serve as executive produces alongside Moore and Maril Davis of Tall Ship Productions, as well as Kira Snyder, David Weddle, Bradley Thompson and Seth Edelstein. “For All Mankind” is produced for Apple TV by Sony Pictures Television.
Here’s a first look at Season 5:
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