Andy Greenwald

So, no, I think that the...

Whatever prep meetings and design meetings they had were just, to my mind, seemed incredibly successful and incredibly aesthetically integrated.

So the language and the way they speak the language works with the production design and the sets and just the entire aesthetic of the show is consistent for me, so it doesn't... Good.

Were you concerned trolling?

It bothers you.

Yeah, I think that the other thing that's been interesting about it

Basically, the show seems to run towards the challenges, which is kind of like my 10,000-foot almost de facto praise these days, where it's like, well, this is where the fences are in the world that they've been given.

This is what they've been granted.

So what do they do with it?

And I think some of the interesting cultural and...

character-based nuance has come from the moments that we haven't seen yet.

When Belikova's father shows up and the way he treats her, the references to Irina's bad marriage, the things that are happening outside of Star City contribute to the idea that though some characters like Valya's wife, who's

tanya tanya uh you know chafing against the limitations within star city dance dreams of moscow and listen to listen to records you know just really just like us it's a really cool detail that she's getting contraband lp or singles smuggled in on x-rays yeah that can only be played four times before they degrade yeah that's pretty cool um i my favorite robert pollard solo album was also issued only on x-ray that could only be played four times but sorry you missed out

I invited you over to listen to it.

But yeah, there's levels to this society.

That Star City isn't some achievement and within its walls everything is possible.

That Star City is an exemplar of

best and the worst of a larger society and the largest larger society is knocking at the door in various ways so i feel immersed i mean it's it's it's an excellent show and it is a remarkable pressure valve that it has that if it starts to feel a little too kitchen sink pot boiler they can just go to the moon and when i was watching that moon sequence i was feeling something that is probably baked into every frame of the seasons of for all mankind that i haven't watched which is man

It's cool to see something in which space travel is really hard and really scary.

Not, you know, ah, time to take the cruiser to Naboo or whatever.