Moonshot Ending Explained (In Detail)
Warning! SPOILERS for Moonshot.
Moonshot, which stars To All the Boys' Lana Condor and Riverdale's Cole Sprouse, ends much like many other romcoms: the two lovers end up together. Indeed, while HBO's Moonshot does introduce some new elements to the genre, it doesn't really veer away from the core romcom formula. That said, at its core, Moonshot is more than just a romcom, and its ending drives home certain crucial points about the problems of modern society.
In the year 2049, humans have colonized Mars. However, only the smartest scientists can get a job on the red planet, and for those without the scientific know-how, commercial flights to Mars cost around $1 million. While Moonshot reveals very little about the movie's setting and timeline, it's also made clear that in this imagined near-future, Earth is still dying.
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Moonshot's realistic sci-fi setting paves the way for the love triangle between Walt, Sophie, and Sophie's boyfriend Calvin, who is played by Scream 5's Mason Gooding. Although Moonshot revolves around this developing love story, it's impossible to ignore how the characters' decisions are still informed by the surrounding conditions of the spacefaring age. Here's everything that you might have missed in the ending of Moonshot.
In the last scenes of Moonshot, Walt follows Sophie on the ship back to Earth, and the two share their first kiss, suggesting that they end up together. However, there's more to this classic romcom ending than meets the eye. Sophie essentially decides to go back to Earth because Walt was right about Calvin all along. Calvin had no intentions of returning to Earth and pursuing the long-term plans that he and Sophie agreed
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