- Star Citya new sci-fi series from the creators of Apple TV For all mankindhas dropped its first trailer
- Starring Rhys Ifans, Anna Maxwell Martin, Agnes O’Casey and Alice Englert
- Explores the space race from “behind the Iron Curtain when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon”
The first trailer for Star City — a new Apple TV sci-fi series from the creators of For all mankind — has arrived, giving us our first look at the “all-history” of the space race. According to the streamer, the series will “explore the space race behind the Iron Curtain, as the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon, beginning May 29.”
The cast is led by Rhys Ifans, Anna Maxwell Martin, Agnes O’Casey and Alice Englert, and in the first trailer (which you can catch up on below), we see a traitor in their midst, with an unknown source leaking military secrets from their Star City base.
Compared to For all mankindApple TV’s alternate take on the real story is much darker… and that’s a good thing.
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Star City on Apple TV turns the space race into a ‘paranoid, drifting thriller’
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There’s no doubt from the above trailer that Star City is technically fiction, but it may be more connected to real-world events than we realize. For starters, the show’s title alludes to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia, which had the same nickname.
As Apple TV goes on to explain, “Star City is a driving paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in alt-history’s retelling of the space race – when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon.
“But this time we explore the story behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, engineers and intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward.”
While For all mankind isn’t exactly a bundle of joy when it comes to imagining the inner workings of space science (especially if you’ve seen season 5), the cold color grading and creepy visuals in the above Star City the trailer indicates that something much more sinister is on the way.
Regardless, I’m sitting — not least because I know from where Line of Duty and Steal how incredibly well Anna Maxwell Martin plays a vicious, disregarded villain.
The eight-episode series will debut globally on Apple TV with two episodes on May 29, followed by a new episode each week through July 10.
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