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Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Meet the new planet, same as the old planet. In Season 4 of “For All Mankind,” Apple TV+’s alternate history series about space exploration, the year is 2003 and there’s a multinational colony on Mars. Would it surprise you to learn all the fractious class issues on Earth are being replicated on Mars? The astronauts and scientists are on top (literally living on the planet’s surface) whereas the grunts who do all the dirty work are underpaid, poorly treated and relegated to dark, subterranean dorms — and they’re not gonna take it. Finally, a recent TV show to depict labor organizing! The serie…