Star City | Apple TV

randal said:
Ooo, is this in the same universe as FAM?
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Yup, but from the Soviet PoV and with some key differences in the style:

“It was very important to us that the show not feel like a companion piece to For All Mankind that is just mimicking,” Wolpert said. “So this is not a show that jumps in time, actually. It lives in the 1970s. Cold War, spy thriller behind the Iron Curtain. And it’s just that era. And it also, creatively, is more interesting because… the beginning of season two picks up right where season one left off. We don’t have to figure out 10 years of life [in between].”

“We’re done with the decade time jumps and the makeup and the prosthetics,” Nedivi said for Star City. “For us, the only reason to do a spin-off is if it feels like its own thing. It feels like you’re really adding a different element. So for us, this show is not only its own show; it’s its own genre. It’s a totally different look, feel. And it really came through.”
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Thank goodness. As much as I'm enjoying FAM s5, the prosthetics and fake grey hair needed to convey the passage of time take me out of it. They're not quite good enough and so become distracting.
 
Looks interesting for sure. I've become bored of what FaM has become this season so I am looking forward to a different angle.
 
The soviet side of it was so mysterious, particularly in the first series. Be nice to think they planned it that way from the off, either way can't wait to see it from the other side.

The original series got a bit daft as it went along to more of a comedy. Series one and most of two had me hooked though.
 
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