In Apple TV’s ‘Star City,’ Russians beat us to the moon

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Early in Apple TV’s Star City, an error forces a Soviet cosmonaut’s reentry pod to land in Siberia. Stepping out of the capsule, our heroine is briefly menaced by a bear. Has the Marxist-Leninist state arranged for the creature’s appearance, subduing an erratic “worker” by means of its symbolic beast? Unlikely. Yet it says something about the new drama’s Cold War premise that we briefly consider the possibility. 

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