“Hello Tomorrow! “, the series that takes you to the Moon: “It’s the new world like the West before”

Rebelote. For the second consecutive year, the Apple TV + platform has achieved the feat in a market that is nevertheless saturated to launch with “Hello Tomorrow! the most intriguing, seductive and unexpected series. Exactly one year after the masterpiece that constitutes the first season “Severance”, another vision as brilliant as bittersweet of contemporary society arrives on our screens. And where Dan Erickson’s creation built a dystopia that seemed to be only a few years ahead of us, “Hello Tomorrow” counters and goes back to the 1950s. Or at least, in a retrofuturistic version of the thirty glorious Americans where robots would be legion and where we would travel to the Moon.

From the first minutes, we are quite simply captivated by the vision of the sets, props and costumes which are obvious thanks to their beauty and their ingenuity. But far from being satisfied with the simple display of the omnipotence of its artistic direction, “Hello Tomorrow” composes a poignant story about a man-lie, an allegory all on his own for capitalism. With his 1000 watt smile, his perfectly tailored suits and his patter, Jack Billings (Billy Crudup in his best role to date) embodies a first-class salesperson who sells with an equally friendly team of newsboys from the “time sharing”. In other words, rather than monetizing stays in the snow as in our regions, they offer