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Star City(2026)

Also known as La Cité des étoiles

Archived · Apple TV

128 eps
S01
DramaWar & PoliticsScience FictionThriller
ON AIR: MAY 29Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Star City treats spaceflight as painstaking, dangerous work rather than a parade of spectacular launches. Procedural detail gives scientific ambition a practical weight, with engineers and cosmonauts pursuing breakthroughs under ideological pressure. Its grounded science fiction makes technical achievement inseparable from the lives put at risk, and progress carries a human cost beyond the next milestone.

Intelligence officers share corridors with engineers, bringing espionage friction into the space program’s daily work. Their conflicting agendas turn institutional loyalty into a source of suspense: scientific goals must coexist with state surveillance, while personal sacrifice complicates service to the program. The drama follows those competing pressures as closely as the race itself.

Best for

cold war espionage, space race rivalry and Drama

Story lane

Drama and War & Politics

Commitment

Season 1 · 8 episodes

Where

Apple TV

Official Premise

Soviet cosmonauts, engineers, and intelligence officers risk everything in an ambitious space program aiming to be the first to reach the moon.

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Why this pick

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Why this pick

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