Prepare to observe ‘Star Metropolis’ and see the alternative-history area race from behind the Iron Curtain.
Everyone seems to be accustomed to NASA’s Apollo Program and its endeavor to land the primary individual on the lunar floor when Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong took one small step for a person on July 20, 1969. However Apple TV’s “For All Mankind” gave us a glance into another historical past model of the historic mission, one the place Russia landed on the moon first, and the Area Race accelerated additional than true-life occasions transpired.
With “For All Mankind” season 5’s finale airing this week, it’s time to switch sides to “Star City” and learn how the USSR beat the Americans at their own game despite oppression, near-disasters, sabotage, love triangles, paranoia, and some really bland food.
Let’s brave the Cold War chill, comrades, and march right into Apple TV’s “Star City!”
When does “Star City” come out?
The debut season of “Star City” starts on May 29, 2026 for its first 8-episode outing at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time (ET), with the initial two chapters titled “The Eyes” and “A Bear on a Chain” kicking things off.
Subsequent weekly episodes will arrive each Friday until the season finale is broadcast on July 10, 2026.
How To Watch “Star City’s” Inaugural Season?
“Star City” and its dark espionage saga, paired with harsh life inside the Soviet space program’s clandestine headquarters encircled by concrete and razor wire, can be seen exclusively on the Apple TV streaming platform, along with all five seasons of the original “For All Mankind” flagship series from which it was spawned.
If you’re going to be out of the country when the show debuts, you can still watch it on your streaming service of choice using a VPN. You’ll be able to connect to your streaming services, no matter where you are on Earth (though it won’t work on Mars, sorry).
What Is The Plot Of “Star City?”
More than just a Space Race story set in the early 1970s when the Cold War was still heating up, “Star City” is actually closer to a classic Hollywood spy thriller with the Soviets’ secret cosmonaut training base at the core of the tense (and often quite violent) new series.
In many ways, Apple TV’s advertising campaign sums it up perfectly with the truthful motto that “as dangerous as it is in space, it’s more dangerous on the ground.” It’s grim, cold, calculating, severe, and humorless, exhibiting an authentic peek into the Soviet side of human spaceflight.
“A bold new chapter inspired by the critically acclaimed space-race drama, ‘For All Mankind,’ ‘Star City’ is a propulsive paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race — when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon,” states the official synopsis.
“But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers, and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they took to propel humankind forward.”
“Star City” Teasers And Trailers
The first bleak teaser dropped on Mar. 25, and opens on a b&w TV broadcast of a Soviet lunar landing, accompanied by the voice of cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who becomes the first man to walk on the Moon.
A montage of images from the heart of Star City proceeds to paint austere conditions and the constantly unsettling setting in a forested town not on any map to see how it was all accomplished.
A second full trailer arrived April 23, and begins with an abrupt wakeup by Lyudmilla Raskova, the KGB’s safety chief in Star Metropolis, dragging a frightened girl off the bed, then units the stage for the unnerving paranoid surroundings that exists inside the Chief Designer’s area program and the Soviets’ solemn need to maintain beating the Individuals.
Digital bugs are put in, secretaries pay attention to each telephone name and dialog, and rock ‘n roll is banned on this merciless tradition of absolute secrecy.
Who Are The “Star Metropolis” Solid And Creators?
“Star Metropolis” is really blessed with an excellent ensemble solid of worldwide actors that rivals the spectacular meeting of expertise seen in “For All Mankind.” And that is probably not a shock because the spinoff collection was conceived by Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert, and Ronald D. Moore, the identical competent artistic staff behind its Emmy-winning sister collection, “For All Mankind.”
The present is headlined by “Home of the Dragon’s” Rhys Ifans as Chief Designer, a personality patterned after real-life Soviet area chief Sergei Korolev, and “Motherland’s” Anna Maxwell-Martin portraying the impassive KGB safety boss Col. Lyudmilla Raskova.
“Star Metropolis’s” killer solid additionally consists of Agnes O’Casey, Alice Englert, Priya Kansara, Solly McLeod, Adam Nagaitis, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, and Josef Davies.
