With For All Mankind Season 5, the series that began in an alternate 1969 has now jumped ahead to 2012. And although that’s still set in the past, showrunners Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi are fully aware that their historical sci-fi drama is not really a show about alternative history — at least not anymore.
“Season 5 is technically the recent past, but it also feels like it’s the future,” Matt Wolpert tells Inverse. “There’s an interesting development now, because we weren’t able to use as much real-world news as part of the world of our show, because our alternate history has changed so much that a lot of the stuff that happened didn’t happen.”
