All Mankind's new Star City spin-off premieres tonight—here's what you need to know

For All Humanity Season 5 may be coming to an end, but new spin-off show, Star Cityit’s just starting. Star City It premieres on Apple TV with two episodes on May 29 at 12pm PT/3am ET.

For All Humanity It presents an alternate history of the Space Race in which the Soviet Union was the first to reach the Moon. For All Humanity Told from an American perspective. In Star Citythe story becomes scripted as it examines what happened from the perspective of the Soviets.

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In the current season For All Humanitymost of the action takes place on Mars, home to about 5,000 people in the 2010s. The Apple TV show begins in 1969 with a Soviet cosmonaut becoming the first man on the moon, and NASA’s push for an American to accomplish the same feat. The first season covers the late 1960s and 1970s.

Star City It returns to the late 1960s and continues an alternate iteration of the Space Race. However, the play puts the Soviets at the center of the action. The spin-off trailer offers more of a paranoid thriller traditional sci-fi show. According to the Apple logline, Star City It shows “the risks taken by the cosmonauts, engineers and explorers included in the Soviet space program to advance life and humanity.”

Rhys Ifans headlines Star City as chief designer, he is a key figure in the success of the Soviet space program. many fans Dragon House He will recognize Ifa, who plays Otto Hightower.

Star City The ensemble includes Anna Maxwell Martin as Lyudmilla Raskova, Agnes O’Casey as Irina Morozova, Alice Englert as Anastasia Belikova, Solly McLeod as Sasha Polivanov, Adam Nagaitis as Valya Markelov, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis as Tanya Markelova, Joseph Davies as Tanya Markelova, Joseph Davies as Sergey Kanlov, Nikara as Lymilik and Lamisk as Lamisk.

Star City Created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi. For All Humanity.

when talking about For All HumanityThe season 5 finale will air on May 29. Apple has already updated long running show for the sixth and final season. It is not known Star City will return for a second season.

New episodes Star City will be released every Friday until July 10.