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The Soviet dream has become one of the year’s best TV series

From Aftenposten · () Norwegian

Translated from Norwegian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • The series “Star City” revisits the alternate-history premise of the space race from the Soviet perspective.
  • It follows “For All Mankind,” which imagined a Cold War space race escalated by a Soviet landing on the Moon.
  • The new series explores whether the Soviet Union could have sent people to Venus.

What if the Soviet Union had reached the Moon first, and then aimed for Venus? “Star City” returns to the alternate history of the space race from the Soviet side.

The series follows “For All Mankind,” which premiered in 2019 with a simple historical question: what would have happened if the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union had escalated during the Cold War?

That earlier series built an alluring counterfactual universe around the possibility that Soviet cosmonauts, rather than American astronauts, were the first people on the Moon. After five seasons, the creators move back to the beginning with “Star City” and ask the questions again, this time with the Soviet perspective at the center.

The result, according to the review, is a spectacular thriller series.

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Originally published by Aftenposten in Norwegian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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