Season three puts a double exclamation point on its shocking decline in quality with a ridiculous finale that attempts to tie together an Oklahoma City-style terrorist attack, a pregnant astronaut, a stranded North Korean spacefarer, the coming-out of a gay US president, and the exposure of a high-level NASA spy. Any one of these plots would be hard to swallow; the combination is so laughably over-the-top.
Add a pretentious homage to "The Right Stuff" (Ed Baldwin walking away from a smoking crater) and the continuing idiocy of the Danny Stevens character (doesn't NASA do psych evaluations?), and you have one hot steaming mess of a show. Incredibly, it's been renewed for season four.
They really should have quit after the first two seasons, which were mostly excellent. Season three is when "For All Mankind" screwed the pooch.
Add a pretentious homage to "The Right Stuff" (Ed Baldwin walking away from a smoking crater) and the continuing idiocy of the Danny Stevens character (doesn't NASA do psych evaluations?), and you have one hot steaming mess of a show. Incredibly, it's been renewed for season four.
They really should have quit after the first two seasons, which were mostly excellent. Season three is when "For All Mankind" screwed the pooch.