Foundation turned out to be dogshit. Not quite Raised By Wolves dogshit, not quite Lost In Space Season 2 dogshit, but real close.

Everyone insists I need to see Ted Lasso, which is a real good goddamn reason for me not to watch it.

For All Mankind, on the other hand, is one of those vanishingly rare works of art where the creators took the money and made something for themselves.

Watchmen the movie is this. It's a fan making a movie for fans who doesn't give a fuck what anybody else thinks. Cyberpunk 2077 is this. CD Projekt Red took all the money they made from Witcher 3 and piled it into a passion project they'd been hammering at since 2012. I'm pretty sure Ron Moore has wanted to do a worm-logo NASA alternate history since Challenger exploded. And he dragged along all his Star Trek: TNG buddies.

Ron Moore et. al. managed to make a marquee sci fi series in which the mutherfucking Sea Dragon features prominently. it is a #kleinbl00batshittery tour de force. Season 1 finale post-credit scene (no spoilers):