Most alternate histories are built around a grand conceit: What would have happened if Booth’s bullet missed Lincoln or if the Nazis built an atomic bomb? For All Mankind, which recently concluded its fourth season on Apple TV+, offers a more modest counterfactual: How different would things be if the Soviets beat us to the moon by just 24 days?
At first, the show’s answer to this question is “not very.” Elections, wars, and technological advances all proceed slightly differently, but For All Mankind’s world is still very clearly ours. But as the show progresses, its world gets better and better, even as it weathers the same human tragedies and political scandals that line the annals of American history.
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