Although Star City is very much its own show, with its own conflicts, aesthetics, and narrative drive, these episodes are running parallel to For All Mankind Season 1. And, it turns out, not all those parallels are just connected to the timeline. Some character arcs are echoed in the basic setup of Star City, including the notion that the loved ones and families of the astronauts, or cosmonauts, are an integral part of the unfolding story. And, with Star City Episode 4, the series is, purposefully or not, using a similar plot device that occurred in For All Mankind, Season 1, Episode 3, mirroring the events and character dynamics in both shows.
In Star City Episode 4, “Dark Forest,” the origin of Tanya (Ruby Ashbourne Serkis) and Valya’s (Adam Nagaitis) couplehood is revealed in a flashback. And, suddenly, the parallels to Gordo (Michael Dorman) and Tracy (Sarah Jones) in For All Mankind are very, very strong.
