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For All Mankindseason 5’s latest casting announcement is giving me a Joel Kinnaman reunion I’ve been waiting a decade for. After an incredible fourth season, I was thrilled to learn that AppleTV+ hadn’t just commissionedFor All Mankindseason 5, but a spinoff series that tells the story from a Soviet perspective. While the specifics of theStar Cityspinoffare still vague,For All Mankind’s recent casting announcement heavily implies that it’s full steam ahead for season 5, potentially aiming for a 2025 release date.
The huge time jumps between seasons ofFor All Mankindnecessitate a constant influx of new characters, and season 5 is no exception. A report inVarietyconfirmed thatMireille Enos will joinFor All Mankindseason 5 as new series regular, Celia Boyd.Enos' character is described as “a member of the Peacekeeper Security Force on Mars,“which places Celia Boyd in the path of Old Man Mars himself, Ed Baldwin. This is particularly exciting for me, and fans ofThe Killing, because it reunites the show’s two lead actors.
For All Mankind Season 4 Ending Explained: What Happens To The Goldilocks Asteroid & Happy Valley
The Goldilocks heist comes to a nail-biting conclusion in For All Mankind’s season 4 finale. What’s next for the future of Happy Valley and Mars?
For All Mankind Season 5 Is Reuniting The Killing’s Joel Kinnaman & Mireille Enos
Of course,For All Mankindseason 5 won’t be the first time that Joel Kinnaman and Mireille Enos have worked together sinceThe Killingended in 2014.Kinnaman and Enos were previously reunited for the Prime adaptation of Joel Wright’s movieHanna, but their reunion was disappointing. Their antagonistic dynamic was in sharp contrast to their collaborative characters in AMC’s adaptation ofThe Killing, who made a compelling detective duo. While I’d always been a bigger fan of the Danish original, the performances of Mireille Enos as Detective Sarah Linden and Joel Kinnaman as Detective Stephen Holder sold me on the remake’s merits.
The original Danish version ofThe Killingstarred Sofie Gråbøl as Detective Sarah Lund and Søren Malling as Detective Jan Meyer.
I’m therefore hoping that Joel Kinnaman and Mireille Enos' relationship inFor All Mankindseason 5 will be more cooperative, and that they’ll share more screen time than inHanna. However, given thatEd Baldwin led an asteroid heistfrom the Happy Valley colony on Mars, it’s entirely possible that his relationship with Enos' Celia Boyd will be antagonistic. However, whether Ed Baldwin and Celia Boyd’s relationship is positive or negative, I’m still excited to see Joel Kinnaman reunited with hisThe Killingco-star inFor All Mankindseason 5.
Why Mireille Enos' For All Mankind Role Is Great For The Show’s Future
As much as I love Joel Kinnaman as Ed Baldwin, it’s fair to say that the character doesn’t have much mileage left in him. Ed will be 81 inFor All Mankindseason 5, meaning that Joel Kinnaman will have to wear more layers of prosthetics to “age up”. And while 81 may be a suitable age to be leader of the free world, it likely discounts Ed from continuing to be an astronaut on Mars. This makes me concerned aboutEd Baldwin’s fate. However, the introduction of Mireille Enos as Celia Boyd givesFor All Mankindthe scope to give us new characters to love, who are at the forefront of the next generation of space exploration.
Adding Mirielle Enos into the mix means that, while Ed Baldwin, Dani Poole and Margo Madison’s time may be limited, the future ofFor All Mankindis in very safe hands.
For example, I loved Toby Kebbell’s character, Miles Dale, inFor All Mankindseason 4, and certainly hope that he too will be back, leading the civilian workforce on Mars. Similarly, Coral Peña and Cynthy Wu were exceptional as Aleida Rosales and Kelly Baldwin, and I’m really excited to see where their characters go inseason 5. Adding Mirielle Enos into the mix means that, while Ed Baldwin, Dani Poole and Margo Madison’s time may be limited, the future ofFor All Mankindis in very safe hands.
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Imagine a world where the global space race never ended - For All Mankind is a thrilling “what if” take on history that explores what would have happened in the race to the moon between the Soviet Union and the United States, as well as the space programs and the race’s effects on the astronauts and their families in the aftermath. The Apple TV+ series hails from Ronald D. Moore and stars Joel Kinnaman as a NASA astronaut. For All Mankind also features historical astronauts like Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong.
