I’m going to say that I saw some of the problems to come in BSG season three, but I still bought the physical media up to that point.

I don’t think you can blame it all on the writers strike, any more than you can blame Picard season two or Discovery season four’s weaknesses on the pandemic.

Other shows managed better. It’s the test of a good senior production executive to manage through those situations.

I was deeply disappointed in where For All Mankind took its women characters. I was hoping that having Naren Shankar join after he finished with The Expanse would redeem it, but it just kept getting worse in its treatment of women.

• ! a driven engineer who becomes the head in Houston only to fall into a honey-trap and feed the Soviets information!<

• ! an astronaut who played up her physical beauty and whose top-gun husband became a despondent alcoholic when she leaves him responsible for the kids!<

• ! an astronaut who hides her sexual preference through a fake marriage !<

• ! the neglected wife of an astronaut who is stalked and manipulated into a one time sexual encounter with a young man she once looked after as a child, then carries the burden of responsibility for the impact of his obsession.!<