Review: For All Mankind, "New Eden" | Season 3, Episode 6
As one astronaut imagines a better future, everyone else buries themselves in the mess of the status quo
When Danielle Poole confronts Will Tyler about his decision to come out as gay via video feed from Mars, she talks around the issue of his sexuality at first. When he insists that this isn’t her problem, she reminds him that it became the mission’s problem, which means it became her problem, even though she has no power over what actually happens to him. She’s not judgmental about the fact that he’s gay, she just wishes that he could have waited two years so that it wouldn’t have become a complication for a mission that has already been turned upside down by the Soviets’ meltdown, a damaged spacecraft, and endless complications with the rushed equipment they’re using to build a habitat on the red planet.
But as Will notes, he’s waited his entire life. When the astronauts first make their way on foot from the damaged Sojourner to their new home in Happy Valley, Will is lost in the vista in front of him, in awe of the majesty of being on this new planet unburdened by Eart…