News Star City Everybody’s Paranoid in the Trailer for For All Mankind Spinoff Star City I don’t think you can actually know what someone is thinking before they think it, but okay. By Molly Templeton | Published on April 23, 2026 Image: Apple TV Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Apple TV The basic premise of the alternate history series For All Mankind is that the Soviet Union beat the U.S. to the moon, and the subsequent space race just kept racing. But as the trailer for the spinoff series Star City makes clear, that didn’t exactly lead to a nice, relaxing time for said Russians. Somewhere in Star City, there’s a traitor. And Lyudmilla (Anna Maxwell Martin) is going to root them out, one way or the other. Apple TV’s synopsis keeps its cards close to its chest: Star City is a propulsive, paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race — when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humankind forward. Rhys Ifans (House of the Dragon) stars as what seems like the one man more interested in keeping their cosmonauts safe than punishing whoever might be leaking trade secrets. The rest of the cast includes Agnes O’Casey (Black Doves), Alice Englert (Dangerous Liaisons), Solly McLeod (House of the Dragon), Adam Nagaitis (The Agency), Ruby Ashbourne Serkis (Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man), Josef Davies (Andor), and Priya Kansara (Polite Society). Showrunners Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi have said that Star City will be notably different from their previous show (which they also created alongside Ronald D. Moore); for one thing, it won’t have time jumps. Star City premieres with two episodes on Friday, May 29—the same day as For All Mankind’s fifth season finale. For All Mankind has already been renewed for a sixth and final season, but it’s unknown whether Star City will continue.[end-mark] The post Everybody’s Paranoid in the Trailer for <i>For All Mankind</i> Spinoff <i>Star City</i> appeared first on Reactor.