This interview contains spoilers for Season 1 of Apple TV Plus’ space race drama For All Mankind.
Season 1 of Apple TV+’s For All Mankind has been a consistently engrossing, frequently harrowing, but ultimately hopeful exploration of an alt-history space race, charting the many ripple effects – throughout NASA and the wider world – spawned by the Soviets landing on the moon before the US did.
In the Season 1 finale, we see many of our central characters reach a new status quo – Ed Baldwin (Joel Kinnaman) is finally back from his long, solitary sojourn on the moon, and he and wife Karen (Shantel VanSanten) must reckon with the devastating, life-altering loss of their son after a tragic accident. Gordo (Michael Dorman) and Tracy Stevens (Sarah Jones) seem to have solidified their relationship after Tracy’s first trip to space (and Gordo’s poignant psychological breakdown from being trapped on the Jamestown base far longer than anticipated), while Ellen Waverly (Jodi Balfour) appears to have taken Deke Slayton’s (Chris Bauer) dying advice to heart and chosen to go all-in on her fabricated relationship with Larry (Nate Corddry) in an effort to hide the fact that she’s a lesbian from NASA.
Source: IGN.com Apple TV's For All Mankind: Season 1 Ending Explained