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For All Mankind

Bent Bird

TV Flash files “Bent Bird” as hour 9 of 50 in the TV Flash guide — For All Mankind (2019–) on Apple TV+, season 1, episode 9, aired 2019-12-13, 48 min.

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This leaf is S01E09: listed hour 9 of 50 in the For All Mankind guide, hour 9 of 10 in season 1. It aired 2019-12-13 (48 min). The listed hour before it is “Rupture” (S01E08). Next is “A City Upon a Hill” (S01E10).

For All Mankind — Bent Bird (S01E09)

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A crisis in space puts the Apollo 24 and 25 crews in peril.

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Where does Bent Bird sit in the For All Mankind guide?

S01E09 is listed hour 9 of 50 — hour 9 of 10 in season 1, season 1 episode 9.

When did For All Mankind S01E09 air?

Bent Bird aired 2019-12-13 and is listed at 48 minutes.

Where should I start?

Season one, when the race forks. Later decades assume you felt the first split; skipping ahead wastes timeline-as-character.

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Why this series still plays

The space race if the Soviets landed first and history kept forking. Apple's prestige what-if is ambition porn with engineering homework: missions, marriages, and moonbases aging in public. Watch for the timeline as a character, and for a decade-by-decade swing that treats alternate history as family soap, not a lecture with rockets.

Apple did not wait for a Thursday dump to fork the space race. For All Mankind, 2019 onward, is prestige what-if as a calendar product: Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi letting the Soviets land first, then asking you to live in the split for **five seasons and fifty hours**. Joel Kinnaman's Edward Baldwin, Shantel VanSanten's Karen, and Wrenn Schmidt's Margo Madison age in public while missions, marriages, and moonbases keep the chart moving. Rex can keep the museum NASA. This is inventory that…

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