For All Mankind, episode 1 

So I watched the first episode of that Apple TV original programme and, heck, it was pretty good. A little distastefully patriotic in places, but I figure that’s indicative of the culture and politics of when it’s set.

Overall, I quite liked it!

For All Mankind, episode 1 

What I don’t particularly get is why the show uses fictionalised versions of real people (Apollo 11 crew, Werner Von Braun, Gene Kranz, etc.) in some places but completely fictionalised people for others—the Apollo 10 crew is entirely different from reality, and Margo Madison is an amalgamation of, I suspect, Poppy Northcutt and Margaret Hamilton.

I could grok this in Chernobyl, where they amalgamated literally dozens of people into the character of Ulana, but these are mostly one-for-one replacements and I find it kinda jarring, as someone with some prior knowledge.

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