{"id":408185,"date":"2026-04-24T07:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/408185\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:15:08","slug":"for-all-mankind-season-5-episode-5-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/408185\/","title":{"rendered":"For All Mankind Season 5, Episode 5 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Full spoilers follow for For All Mankind Season 5, Episode 5, which is streaming on Apple TV now.<\/p>\n

For whatever reason, this season of For All Mankind can\u2019t seem to stop kneecapping itself right when it\u2019s on the verge of being good, and Episode 5 has, sadly, done exactly that once again. We\u2019re right off the heels of wildfire news<\/a> spreading about the Mars automation agreement leak, and yet we kick things off with\u2026 Irina Morozova (Svetlana Efremova), Margo\u2019s old Roscosmos boss and high-ranking KGB handler, getting locked up in a Soviet labor\/reeducation camp for 19 months. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not even that this is unimportant. The show needed to reintroduce Irina after she was arrested toward the end of Season 4, especially since we knew (from a picture in the last episode) that she would be part of the Kuragin delegation heading to Mars. But this montage in the Gulag feels stuffed at the front of the episode because there was no other good place to put it, and it just so happens to kick off an episode full of major revelations that mostly land with a thud because of rickety dialogue, wooden performances, or the unfortunate combination of both.<\/p>\n

\"sean<\/a>Credit: Apple TV<\/p>\n

The bright spots are the naive defensive maneuvers Alex (Sean Kaufman) and Lily (Ruby Cruz) pull in light of their whistleblowing. Dev (Edi Gathegi), who sidestepped Aleida for the automation agreement, confronts Alex, calling his behavior the \u201cactions of a fucking child.\u201d In their spat, Alex quits Helios, claiming Dev never understood the long-term vision his grandfather had for Mars and that his plans for building Meru through extensive automation would result in a community that \u201conly a chosen few get to be a part of.\u201d He\u2019s probably not wrong, but turning in his badge as a data-entry specialist \u2014 and then complaining to his mom about how he was \u201cfinally doing something meaningful\u201d with his life (lol, you\u2019re like 17, kid!) \u2014 is ineffectual dissent but spot-on for the character. <\/p>\n

Lily, on the other hand, barely seems to comprehend how deep she\u2019s in and the potential very real consequences of her easily trackable actions\u2026 beyond losing her acceptance to Tulane, that is. (Nooo!) She gleefully protests with the Marsies against the automation, wondering aloud, \u201cThey\u2019re not looking for us, right?\u201d up until her dad tells her she could be looking at 20 years in prison. She\u2019s been talking about being a part of the resistance all season, and she\u2019s finally seeing why Miles (Toby Kebbell) has been the strict parent this whole time.<\/p>\n

\"mireille<\/a>Credit: Apple TV<\/p>\n

The clunker of Episode 5 is Celia Boyd\u2019s (Mireille Enos) plot, which is a real shame since she\u2019s finally uncovered the truth behind Yoon Tae-min\u2019s murder and how it\u2019s connected to the automation plans. I will hand it to the show: It\u2019s a fun juxtaposition having Boyd digging around the same conspiracy as Alex and Lily, two rogue outsiders, while working within the system that\u2019s trying to keep it all covered up. But oh my God, the big scene between Boyd and her partner Fred (Tyler Labine), Yoon\u2019s real murderer and Palmer\u2019s puppet, did not have the kind of hissing ire or fear it needed to make the revelation feel like a major betrayal. Putting all that aside, though, the question still becomes: What does Boyd do with this information now? Lee is innocent! The cops are corrupt!<\/p>\n

The answer is: Nothing \u2014 at least right now. The MPK have been called out to enforce the new curfew on Happy Valley to stop the \u201cMars is ours\u201d protesters from getting too rowdy. Of course, the police presence only makes things worse and the gathering escalates to full-blown violence, with the protesters about to storm the control center where Governor Polivanov (Costa Ronin) is holed up. Once again, the episode has some motion; it just took 40-or-so minutes to get there. Let\u2019s hope Episode 6 keeps it rolling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Full spoilers follow for For All Mankind Season 5, Episode 5, which is streaming on Apple TV now.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-408185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}