The Shocking ‘For All Mankind’ Finale Twist: Margo Madison Tells All
(Warning: Spoilers for the Season 4 finale of For All Mankind ahead.)
On For All Mankind, it is customary to end the season with at least one death of a beloved character. It’s been nearly three years since Tracy (Sarah Jones) and Gordo’s (Michael Dorman) sacrifice aired, and I still can’t look at duct tape. Season 4, the finale of which just dropped on Apple TV+, breaks this pattern, but that doesn’t mean tears are not shed.
In the alt-history series, the course of space exploration irrevocably changed when the Soviets landed on the moon first in the pilot episode. Humans working on Mars is not a theoretical prospect in the For All Mankind timeline, which leaps forward years at a time between seasons. Margo Madison (Wrenn Schmidt) used to lead the NASA control room and once again, the typically stoic engineer has an impossible decision to make. Sure, it isn’t quite as twisty as the reveal at the end of the drama’s third season, showing Margo in 2003, alive and well eight years after faking her death and defecting to the USSR. Nevertheless, the Season 4 finale’s climax is equally bittersweet. “It’s time and time again where there is no good choice, just two bad choices,” Schmidt tells The Daily Beast’s Obsessed.