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How For All Mankind Soundtracks Decades of Alternate History
Step one: Ignore the show’s reality; focus on the music of this one.
Over four seasons, Apple TV+’s For All Mankind has imagined an alternate history in which the Soviets got to space first, nuclear fission changed everything about the world’s energy industry, and NASA played an outsize role in American politics, economics, and pop culture. That’s how you get the blissful audaciousness of a Russian rap song accompanying an American defector facing another day in a country that used to be her enemy, or DMX blasting in while two rivals decide to team up and hijack an asteroid — the expected and the unexpected keep viewers engaged, Roe says. But some of the season’s biggest moments come from the decade’s most well-known songs, like Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun,” which soundtracks a montage of the American, Russian, and Helios spaceships taking off, and introduces a two-year time jump in space, in third episode “All In.”
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