For All Mankind — Series 1: Episode 3 — Nixon’s Women — A Review

24th January, 2020.

I have to admit, I am seriously angry, right at the moment.

Up until yesterday?

I had a monetised YouTube channel.

In other words?

I had a channel that was earning ad revenue.

Until, this morning?

I didn’t … 

YouTube’s decided to demonetise me … 

Apparently?

I have too much reused content.

I’m guessing … that that means the various film and TV show clips … clips that I’m slowly removing from my channel.

But of course, the email I could have used to email YouTube, to ask what videos to take down … ?

Is out of reach.

It’s for Youtube partners, only.

In the meantime … ?   I’m going to have to do a lot of pruning.

~≈†≈~

Whilst I’m doing that … ?

Whilst I’m sorting that lot out … or, at least, as a break from sorting that out … ?

I felt it was time for some TV … 

No: I’m not going to be catching Star Trek: Picard, just yet.

No … I’ve caught the third episode of For All Mankind —, Series 1 … 

~≈†≈~

Episode 3 — Nixon’s Women — opens a few years before the main story starts: with the meeting of Gordo (Michael Dorman) and his wife, Tracy (Sarah Jones): when they meet at a training airfield.

And moves on: showing us Deke Slayton and Gene Kranz (Chris Bauer and Eric Ladin, respectively) in a meeting with a senior general who wants to know why a potential moonbase will take so many years to build.

A meeting the gets interrupted by presidential aides, who are equally insistent the president’s latest orders are followed fast.

President Nixon … ?   Wants to see a blonde on the Moon.

~≈†≈~

Which is when the fun really starts.

NASA?

Has to recruit twenty women to train up as astronauts.

Then train them … 

Then … ?

Then train some more: until the final five candidates come up against … 

The bedstead … 

That … ?

Is make or break time … 

~≈†≈~

Now … 

Apple’s done it again: at least with this episode.

Nixon’s Women gives us a good old fashioned competition.

One that’s got a small group competing to win the prize of being American woman in space … 

Only for one to be tragically lost at the end of the episode.

Frankly?

I’m maintain what I said, when I first wrote about For All Mankind.

These opening episodes are very watchable.

Star Trek: Picard can wait, for the moment: For All Mankind has my attention …