For All Mankind season 5 has gotten off to a complex and emotional start. In last week’s episode, tensions grew on Mars, and we said a sad yet grateful goodbye to Joel Kinnaman’s Ed Baldwin, who’d been a main character since the Apple TV sci-fi series first started in 2019.
His grandson Alex (Sean Kaufman) was the only one there when Ed finally passed. After graduating from high school, Alex feels a bit lost. He seems unsure of where his future lies, and who can blame him? Alex has grown up on Mars, but he feels caught between the Baldwin legacy and forging his own path on a planet where a violent revolution may be bubbling under the surface.
In episode 3, Alex spoke of his inner turmoil with Helios founder Dev Ayesa (Edi Gathegi) and the pair seemed to bond while fixing Alex’s bike. The savvy entrepreneur, who has taken disruptive risks that have profoundly influenced humanity’s political landscape, is currently fixated on building Meru, a sustainable, self-sufficient city on Mars that could potentially provide a home for 1 million citizens.
Surprisingly, this ambitious plan hasn’t gone down well at the company he co-founded in the 1980s where the budget is being directed to other game-changing projects. But Dev has rarely taken “no” for an answer, and it doesn’t look like he’s about to start now. In our exclusive episode 4 clip, Dev begins to see Alex as someone who could help bring his Meru dream to life on Mars, even as Helios CEO Aleida Rosales (Coral Peña) looks further ahead to finding life on Titan.
