Star City Season 1

What BollyAI Thinks

Apple's For All Mankind universe expands sideways with Star City, relocating the alt-history space race to the Soviet side to follow the cosmonauts, engineers, and KGB minders inside a closed city built to out-race America to the stars. Rhys Ifans leads a cast navigating ambition under constant surveillance, and critics have responded almost unanimously: 97% on Rotten Tomatoes across 30 reviews, 80 on Metacritic from 16 critics, both landing in rare territory for a streaming spinoff. The Hollywood Reporter's Angie Han found it breathlessly tense and oddly moving, arguing the Soviet vantage makes the stakes higher and the politics bleaker than its parent show ever risked. What critics clocked: a tighter, more paranoid machine than For All Mankind's occasional soapiness, without losing the earnest wonder of the space race itself. Season 1 is still airing weekly; no verdict yet on a second season.

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