The spinoff is tense and melancholic speculative fiction about what may have happened if America lost the space race — only this time, told from inside the Soviet Union. Yet, unlike most franchise extensions, the new show's ties to the original series hurt more than they help. Anastasia Belikova (Alice Englert) is destined to be the first woman to walk on the moon. The year is 1969. The Soviet Union has already won the space race against America, landing cosmonaut Alexei Leonov on the lunar