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‘Star City’ Finale: Creators Explain Why They Couldn’t Resist Rewriting Their Own Alt-Space History by Going to Venus and Killing Off [SPOILER]
In the finale of the “For All Mankind” spinoff, Anastasia (Alice Englert), back in space on a mission to launch an orbiting station, must weigh whether to...
Key points
- In the finale of the “For All Mankind” spinoff, Anastasia (Alice Englert), back in space on a mission to launch an orbiting station, must weigh whether to defy all directives to save her beloved Sasha (Solly MacLeod) as he barrels back to Earth with a kill order on his head.
- Although they shared only one night of passion together within the confines of their arranged marriage before he is sent to space on a secret mission to Venus, Anastasia and Sasha have spent most of the season pining for each other from afar.
- “The fact that the forces of the world pull them apart and they struggle against that just felt very Russian to us,” Wolpert tells Variety.
- “In that Russian literature kind of way, like ‘Anna Karenina’ and “War and Peace,” and all these Tolstoy books about two star-crossed lovers who the world is conspiring to keep apart.
What happened
In the finale of the “For All Mankind” spinoff, Anastasia (Alice Englert), back in space on a mission to launch an orbiting station, must weigh whether to defy all directives to save her beloved Sasha (Solly MacLeod) as he barrels back to Earth with a kill order on his head. Although they shared only one night of passion together within the confines of their arranged marriage before he is sent to space on a secret mission to Venus, Anastasia and Sasha have spent most of the season pining for each other from afar. “The fact that the forces of the world pull them apart and they struggle against that just felt very Russian to us,” Wolpert tells Variety. “In that Russian literature kind of way, like ‘Anna Karenina’ and “War and Peace,” and all these Tolstoy books about two star-crossed lovers who the world is conspiring to keep apart. Below, Nedivi and Wolpert share why revealing such blindspots as the Venus mission and everything that happened in response to it are what got them excited about making the “For All Mankind” spinoff series — and why a guaranteed trip to the Gulag for half a dozen characters isn’t necessarily the end of their story. In that Russian literature kind of way,...
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