Here's Your First Look At For All Mankind Spinoff Star City

Apple’s fantabulous For All Mankind might beryllium wrapping up aft its precocious confirmed sixth season, but arsenic 1 big-budget alt-history sci-fi show departs, different is born. Apple TV has conscionable dropped nan first teaser for Star City, which focuses connected nan reimagined abstraction title of nan 1960s from nan Soviet perspective.

ICYMI, For All Mankind has been moving for astir 5 seasons now (the 5th arrives later this week), pinch its debut play successful 2019 asking, "what if Russia had beaten America to nan moon?" For All Mankind has jumped a number of decades up since then, but Star City returns america to that first premise, taking america down nan Iron Curtain to spot really nan Soviet Union orchestrated its fictional humanities triumph.

The little teaser doesn’t show america overmuch successful nan measurement of plot, but you consecutive distant get what vibe nan streamer is going for pinch a show it describes arsenic a "propulsive paranoid thriller." We besides get a look astatine immoderate of nan cast, which includes House of nan Dragon’s Rhys Ifans, Anna Maxwell Martin and Agnes O’Casey.

Interestingly, Star City’s two-episode premiere lands connected Apple TV connected May 29, correct aft nan finale of For All Mankind season 5, which takes spot successful nan 2010s. That could make for a beautiful jarring backwards clip jump if you watch some seasons backmost to back, but cipher tin opportunity that Apple isn’t serving its sci-fi audience.