497: A Concerning Amount of Tootsie Rolls

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Hi Bob! We continue our early 2020 survey of late 2019 TV favorites with “For All Mankind”, an Apple TV+ series from Ron Moore about a NASA space program that has taken some dramatic turns since Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to set foot on the moon. We discuss the show’s balancing modern themes with its alt-historical context, how purely fictional and fictionalized historical characters fare, the merits of a weekly episode drop, lunar FaceTime and fax machines, and where it all might be headed in as the show’s second season (perhaps) reaches the 1980s.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 498, January 2020.
0:11.0	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:12.6	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:13.8	And in early 2020, we are wrapping up a bunch of TV shows from late 2019.
0:20.7	And in this episode, we're going to be talking about, it's a first for us, of TV shows from late 2019.
0:23.4	And in this episode, we're going to be talking about,
0:29.6	it's a first for us, an Apple TV Plus program for all mankind,
0:33.9	showrunner Ronald D. Moore of Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek,
0:35.0	the Next Generation fame.
0:40.0	But this is a science fact slash science fiction.
0:43.9	It's a slightly more factual fiction, fictional faction.
0:50.3	To join me to talk about this story of the space race in an alternate history are four wonderful people and I'll introduce them now.
0:52.2	Dan Moran is here.
0:53.1	Hello, Dan.
0:53.9	Hi, Bob. Thank you. Kathy Campbell is here. Hello, Dan. Hi, Bob.
0:54.8	Thank you.
0:55.9	Kathy Campbell is here.
0:57.2	Hi, Bob.
0:58.5	Moises Churion is here.
1:00.1	That's insane.
1:01.0	You can't be considering that.
1:02.6	You're going to put the entire mission in jeopardy.
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