Red Moon
- Episode aired Nov 1, 2019
- TV-MA
- 1h 5m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
3.1K
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NASA is in crisis as the Soviets land the first man on the moon in 1969, the beginning of an alternate history.NASA is in crisis as the Soviets land the first man on the moon in 1969, the beginning of an alternate history.NASA is in crisis as the Soviets land the first man on the moon in 1969, the beginning of an alternate history.
Shantel VanSanten
- Karen Baldwin
- (as Shantel Vansanten)
Jodi Balfour
- Ellen Waverly
- (credit only)
Michael Harney
- Jack Broadstreet
- (as Michael J. Harney)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe line up of Corvettes driven by the Apollo astronauts is accurate. A Cadillac-Corvette dealership offered special terms to astronauts throughout the 1960s and most owned or leased them. Some even raced them on NASA runways.
- GoofsWhen Gordo Stevens rushes home to see the Moon landing on TV, his wife says there's "no video" yet. People in 1969 wouldn't use this word, as it came around in the 1980s and gained currency in the Internet era. She would've said there's no picture yet.
While home video only became widely popular in the 1980s with the decrease in price of VCRs, the term "video", and the technology behind it, had been in existence since the earliest days of television.
- Quotes
Wernher von Braun: Pilots. We should have stuck with the monkeys!
- ConnectionsReferences Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Featured review
Amazing Pilot
Like Joel Kinnaman's Ed Baldwin, For All Mankind Season 1 Episode 1, "Red Moon," finds the urgency of moving past frustration and getting down to what's really important: the work. Though the episode spends a lot of its time on leisure, the ideals of family and camaraderie in the face of professional failure, it's in its boundless enthusiasm of pushing on where the episode finds its most potency. Ed's revealing of NASA no longer having the guts that it once possessed is perhaps the most honest statement of the episode. It's perhaps too honest, but he unwittingly sparks that fire, that anger and frustration, that is only felt but not seen beforehand. His comments may hurt him, but it does ignite something more powerful: to prove him wrong, in a sense. The offer to Karen, his wife, to convince Ed of reversing his comments in order to secure his spot on Apollo 15 is a great moral dilemma. Ed's stubborn from what we've seen so far, and so giving up his honor for his future sets up a question of what kind of character he will become from here on out. Taking back his truth would likely be a burden on him. For All Mankind is making a larger point of how this space race is touching lives from all over, how it's a cultural touchstone that ties everyone together. The American push to catch up and exceed will be a difficult one, and Ed may be the very voice needed to exceed. Or perhaps it's in other voices, still silent but ready for a chance, that will rise to the occasion.
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 5 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.00 : 1
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