30th December, 2023: an introduction!
Right …
Is it Chicken Kiev … or Chicken Kyiv?
The war in Ukraine is such that we show our support for one or the other side by spelling the name of the dish — and the city — as Kiev: the Russian way.
Or Kyiv, the Ukrainian way.
Either way … ?
I don’t know that it matters, much, right here and now.
What matters?
Is simply the fact that — once I’ve eaten the one I’m having for dinner? — I’ll be watching “Legacy”, the next episode of For All Mankind.
Then telling you all about it!
31st December, 2023: “Legacy”.
Episode 8 — “Legacy” — opens, not with a summary … but shows us former Roscosmos chief, Sergei Nikulov (Piotr Adamczyk): now resident in Garden City, Iowa with his new wife … and slowly becoming more and more bored with his life as a science teacher.
A life he’s finding more and more repetitive.
Especially as he’s being ignored by all his students: bar the one enthusiastic one that’s in every class.
It’s not until one day … ?
One day, that he and his wife see the news: news that tells the world that Margo Madison defected to the USSR, not long after he defected to the USA!
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Post-titles?
And back on Mars, things are taking something of a turn.
For starters?
Samantha Massey (Tyner Rushing) and Ed Baldwin (Joel Kinnaman) are having a meeting in Miles’ (Toby Kebbell) bar.
Samantha was pleased about getting Admiral Baldwin’s support during the strike.
But not so happy that Ed now seems to be working with Dev Ayesa (Edi Gathegi) … nor too happy that the pair want her to do something expensive for them.
Expensive, unwise … and just a little bit dangerous.
Do you get the feeling there’s a cliffhanger involved … ?
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Now …
What did I make of this episode?
Of “Legacy”?
Of how it was … and why it was called “Legacy”.
The reason it’s called “Legacy” … is totally beyond me: I honestly have no idea why this episode is called “Legacy”, I really don’t.
“Goldilocks”? Is fairly obvious: it’s the nickname for the 2003LC asteroid.
Opening episode, “Glasnost”? Is about the USSR and USA working together.
“Leningrad”? About shenanigans in the city of the same name: the one that — in the real world — we call Saint Petersburg.
Hell, “Crossing the Line” sees various characters crossing metaphorical, or actual, lines.
But why “Legacy” is “Legacy” … ?
I have no idea!
Leave me a comment if you do!
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At any rate, the episode, itself?
Was another beautifully told tale: one with multiple threads running through it.
One thread? Was Dev Ayesha’s plan to steal the asteroid.
“Legacy” show’s us the opening stages of what looks like a good ol’ fashioned heist movie: with Aleida Rosales and Margo Madison (Coral Peña and Wrenn Schmidt) explaining how they’re planning to get the asteroid to Earth, and Dev and his gang of cronies plotting how they’re going to steal it!
Those scenes were my favourites in this episode: along side Ed persuading his young grandson, Alex (Ezrah Lin) to crawl into a locked storage vault, to get a vitally needed part.
Through a very narrow ventilation shaft!
Scenes like that always glue me to my seat, with sympathetic claustrophobia!
But there’s other threads, as well: not least the slowly growing relationship between Ed and Alex, the equally distant one between Margo and Aleida …
And the plot that sees Sergei slowly trying, then succeeding, in contacting Margot.
And dropping one hell of a twist ending: right at the end of the episode!
Frankly?
I have definitely enjoyed “Legacy”: Given how they’ve staged that ending?
I’ll be back, next week, for “Brazil”, the ninth episode.
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With that said?
I’ll be watching “Brazil” on Monday, 8th January, 2024: and putting my written and video reviews up on the 9th January.
I’ll see you then!
“Legacy”.★★★★
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