Season Two Premiere Date and New Cast Members Announced for the Sci-Fi Series ‘For All Mankind’

Written by John Edward Betancourt

At this point it is outright safe to say, that the AppleTV+ series, For All Mankind, was one of the most dynamic shows to premiere in 2019. Simply because it really did offer up one incredible reimagining of the space race. One where the United States of America lost to the Soviets in getting to the moon first and while that premise alone makes this show unique and intriguing, what it did with this incredible twist took this alternate history story to incredible new heights.

Because early on it appeared as though, losing to the Russians was going to bring about America’s finest hour. For the establishment of a permanent Lunar colony, thanks to the discovery of water on the moon, should have signaled a grand shift toward space exploration, which would have allowed for Americans and the world, to unite in a manner never seen before. But instead, our better angels did not prevail in season one, and they were instead replaced by a desire to escalate the Cold War, as evidenced by the shocking final moments of the season one finale.

The kind that were so powerful and so striking that it left all of us wondering where season two of this series would take us. Would it feature mankind overcoming its pettiness in order to explore deep space, in an effort to understand the nature of our existence and see if life is out there? Or would it instead feature a dangerous game of chicken with a powerful enemy, one that would extend into the void itself? Well as it turns out, we have some idea of what to expect from the new season of this titular space drama. For earlier today, AppleTV+ released all kinds of wonderful information regarding season two of this series. Such as a premiere date, plot synopsis and who will be joining the cast as series regulars and well… here are those very details, courtesy of AppleTV+.

Apple TV+ today unveiled that the second season of the critically acclaimed space drama “For All Mankind,” will premiere globally on Friday, February 19, 2021 on Apple TV+. The ten episode second season will debut with the first episode, followed by one new episode weekly, every Friday, exclusively on Apple TV+.
 
Season two of the space drama picks up a decade later in 1983. It’s the height of the Cold War and tensions between the United States and the USSR are at their peak. Ronald Reagan is President and the greater ambitions of science and space exploration are at threat of being squandered as the US and Soviets go head to head to control sites rich in resources on the moon. The Department of Defense has moved into Mission Control, and the militarization of NASA becomes central to several characters' stories: some fight it, some use it as an opportunity to advance their own interests, and some find themselves at the height of a conflict that may lead to nuclear war. 
 
New stars set to join Joel Kinnaman, Michael Dorman, Sarah Jones, Shantel VanSanten, Wrenn Schmidt, Jodi Balfour, Krys Marshall and Sonya Walger in the second season include:
 
· Cynthy Wu (“Holidate,” “Before I Fall,” “American Vandal”) as ‘Kelly Baldwin,’ Ed (Kinnaman) and Karen’s (VanSanten) adopted daughter.
· Coral Peña (“Chemical Hearts,” “The Post”) as ‘Aleida Rosales,’ a brilliant engineer with a complicated past.
· Casey W. Johnson (“GLOW,” “Rise”) as ‘Danny Stevens,’ the son of astronauts Gordo (Dorman) and Tracy (Jones).
 
If anything, this is the kind of plot synopsis and cast announcement that definitely builds excitement in all the right ways. Because not only will we get to see what it is like for kids to grow up in a world where space travel is an everyday thing and follow up on Aleida's journey, we get to see mankind be tested like never before. Because that kind of escalation might bring the world to the brink of all out nuclear war and it should be interesting to see if humanity and our intrepid characters can rise above mankind's worst traits and use space travel as a gift instead of a weapon when For All Mankind returns to the airwaves on February 19, 2021. ​

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