Why Karen Was Shocked By Danny's Song In For All Mankind's S3 Premiere
Warning! SPOILERS for For All Mankind season 3, episode 1 «Polaris.»
For All Mankind's relationship drama takes an intriguing turn in the season 3 premiere, as Karen's brief affair with Danny Stevens resurfaces. Karen, the now ex-wife of decorated NASA astronaut Ed Baldwin, grew close to Danny in season 2 when he worked for her at the Outpost in Houston. The son of the late astronauts Tracy and Gordo Stevens, Danny professed his love to Karen, though she did not reciprocate his affection. Nearly a decade after the event of For All Mankind season 2, Danny holds his wedding to his current love interest Amber at the Polaris space hotel, which was jointly founded by Karen. During the reception, Danny and Amber dance to a song that elicits a stunned reaction from Karen and calls back to her and Danny's relationship.
In its third season, the Apple TV+ series intensifies its already heavily dramatized narrative revolving around the space race in an alternate historical timeline. For All Mankind season 3 commences in 1992 as humanity fixates on landing a crew of astronauts on Mars. The mission to the Red Planet has yet to begin, though episode 1's exposition contextualizes For All Mankind's technologically-advanced present day in which space travel has become accessible to civilians.
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Danny and Amber dance to the song «Don't Be Cruel» by Billy Swan. Certainly not a coincidence, this is the same song that Danny played while he danced with Karen one night at the Outpost in For All Mankind season 2, episode 7, which ended with a kiss between the two. Visibly off-put by the music choice at Danny's wedding roughly a decade later, Karen experiences a highly
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