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For All Mankind Season 5 Episode 4 Review: Finally, Some Excitement

For All Mankind Season 5 has lacked thrill for the last three episodes. 

Some have been flat, others have been emotional, but this show thrives on grandeur and excitement.

Halfway through the season, things seem to be back on track and not a moment too late.

For All Mankind Season 5 Episode 4, “Open Source,” takes place in the aftermath of Ed’s death.

Ed Lives On

Shows can get bogged down by grief after a character like Ed dies, but luckily for us, this does not happen here.

Sure, Ed does get mentioned in several scenes, but just enough to keep the story going.

He’s someone who has had a big impact on Alex’s life, so it’s rational that the young man wonders what the future holds.

And Kelly doesn’t sugarcoat things. She doesn’t regale Alex with tales of a place in the sky flowing with honey and milk.

After mankind has explored the stars, the illusion of an omnipotent being who lives in the sky no longer holds true.

Kelly’s idea of what happens to someone after death is similar to what I have come…

For All Mankind Season 5, Episode 4 Review - “Open Source”

Full spoilers follow for For All Mankind Season 5, Episode 4, which is streaming on Apple TV now.

It seems the rebellious spirit of Ed Baldwin (may he rest in peace) has roused the young adults in Happy Valley into doing some crazy, status quo-shattering stuff. If Alex (Sean Kaufman) was concerned about his grandpa’s approval from the great beyond as he shuffled into his new entry-level data-entry job at Helios, he sure needn’t worry now. By the episode’s end, Alex and Lily Dale (Ruby Cruz) — future journalism student at Tulane! — have busted open a corporate conspiracy that would fundamentally decimate the systems and community built to support life on Mars.

As Alex discovers in files buried under access-locked protocols in Helios’ database, Helios and Kuragin had entered into a secret agreement to automate work on Mars, replacing 98% of the planet’s personnel. It also means that all of the people displaced by bots (sounds familiar…) would be sent back to Earth. It’s confounding on many levels, in part because it’s a violation of union-agreed protections. But why invest in the food systems — and opening a Domino’s and Starbucks — if they were just going to get…