As For All Mankind speeds into its complex future on Mars in Season 5, the new spinoff series, Star City, is looking back to the beginnings of the show. As announced previously, this show will tell the story of For All Mankind’s alternate timeline from the Soviet perspective. The title itself is taken from the central hub of Roscosmos, the USSR’s space program, located near Moscow. The show is set for release on May 29, and now, Apple TV has dropped the first full-length trailer.
The most surprising thing about this trailer is that it reveals that Star City isn’t really like For All Mankind at all. Instead, this show looks to be a nail-biting spy thriller, set in the 1960s and early 1970s. If you didn’t know that the USSR didn’t land on the Moon in 1969, you might think this was a historical drama that just happened to be about spaceflight. In short, the alternate timeline created by For All Mankind is the backdrop for this show, but based on the trailer, the series itself seems to be a spy thriller.
