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Hello Tomorrow! review: Selling holiday homes on the moon

Apple TV+'s compelling new science-fiction offering is a retro-futurist piece, more 20th-century US social drama than technofest

By Bethan Ackerley

15 February 2023

Episode 3. Alison Pill in "Hello Tomorrow!," premiering February 17, 2023 on Apple TV+.

Myrtle Mayburn (Alison Pill) has big doubts about her lunar holiday home

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Hello Tomorrow!

Amit Bhalla, Lucas Jansen

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THERE is a certain school of thought that says “real” science fiction must be full of ideas about how science and technology might change our world. This is often called “hard” sci-fi, and there are those who view any deviation from this style with as bellicose an attitude as possible.

I am not a purist: I prefer to think of sci-fi as a broad church, with the power to imagine almost …

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