Star City: Season 1

June 1969. The Soviet Union stuns the world when cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first man to walk on the Moon. The Americans, whose own effort is just a few weeks away, are infuriated. The Soviets plan to surprise them again with a second mission to put the first woman on the moon, but their plans are thrown off when their chosen cosmonaut is accused of treason. Cosmonaut Anastasia Belikova has to take over at the last minute without much preparation, to the consternation of mission control. The hopes for the glory of the Soviet Union are riding with the men and women of Star City.Star City is a spin-off series from Apple TV+'s For All Mankind, set in the same alternate timeline stemming from the same instigating event (Soviet space programme guru Sergei Korolev surviving and driving the Soviet effort to the moon and beyond). However, the show is very different in tone and structure, and no foreknowledge of For All Mankind is needed. It's a taut political thriller which mixes…