Hello Tomorrow! Apple TV+: Episodes 1 – 2 – 3: According to CinemaBlend, the new science fiction drama Hello Tomorrow! Will debut on Apple TV+ on Friday, February 17, 2023, at 12:01 a.m. ET. The show takes place in a future world where salesmen are trying to sell timeshares on the moon.
Billy Crudup plays one of the main roles in the show, and many other actors play important supporting roles. Amit Bhalla and Lucas Jansen are the ones in charge of the show.
Hello Tomorrow! Apple TV+: Episode 1 – 2 – 3 Review
Jack Billings has a way with words. The first scene of Hello Tomorrow!, Apple TV+’s newest original sci-fi show, makes that very clear. The travelling salesman (as played by Billy Crudup) has the rare, Don Draper-esque ability to figure out exactly what other people want to hear and convince them that whatever product he’s selling is exactly what they’ve been looking for all along. In Hello Tomorrow!, which takes place in a retrofuturistic alternate reality, that product is timeshares in a growing community on the moon.
Jack says that the “Brightside” real estate development will be a place where blue-collar workers from Earth will be able to go and enjoy the same luxuries on the moon that were previously only available to people with enough money to pay for them. Crudup’s rough door-to-door salesman knows that most of Jack’s customers want to move to Brightside to get away from their problems on Earth. But like all things that sound too good to be true, Brightside has more to it (or less, depending on your point of view) than meets the eye.
If that sounds like a spoiler, you may be happy to hear that it’s not. Even though most of the first season of Hello Tomorrow! keeps Jack’s plans for Brightside a secret, the first episode makes it clear that not everything he says about the real estate development is true. Hello Tomorrow! doesn’t really care if Brightside is real or not in the end, either. The show doesn’t care about these things because Jack doesn’t care about the truth about his product.
Hello Tomorrow! was made by Amit Bhalla and Lucas Jansen, and they want people to know that ack is a liar. But he is also a hard-core dreamer who won’t give up. He thinks that the promise of a better tomorrow is enough to sell a product. During the first season of Hello Tomorrow!, Jack tries to convince everyone around him, some of whom are more aware of the truth of his schemes than others, that a lie can become true if enough people believe in it.
Hello Tomorrow! is at its best is when it forces Crudup’s Jack to actually grapple with the moral implications of his actions. Unfortunately, most of these moments happen in the second half of the first season of the show, after we finally know more about Brightside. In the episodes leading up to that moment, Hello Tomorrow! often struggles to stretch out its first mysteries in a way that makes sense. The first few episodes of the show tend to feel repetitive and shallow, making you wonder how deep the story really is.
In the first few episodes of the drama-comedy, a lot of time is spent on Jack’s relationship with his estranged son, Joey (Nicholas Podany), who doesn’t even recognise his father when he comes to town to sell some Brightside timeshares. When Joey shows interest in Brightside, Jack sees an opportunity to try to build a real relationship with his son. He brings Joey into his business as a travelling salesman without telling him at first that they are related.
When Jack decides to be Joey’s mentor, the first few episodes are full of drama and tension, but in the middle of the series, it’s hard to find new ways to explore and test their relationship. Joey hasn’t been given much of a personality outside of his friendship with Jack, so for most of the first season, he feels like a one-note character. Many of Jack’s coworkers and employees, like Hank Azaria’s gambling addict Eddie and Dewshane Williams’s overly ambitious Herb, feel more like caricatures than interesting minor characters.
Only Haneefah Wood’s strong-willed Shirley really stands out among the show’s supporting characters. Shirley is one of the few characters in Hello Tomorrow! who can beat Jack at his own game. This makes her an interesting and dangerous opponent for Crudup’s charming schemer. Crudup always does a great job as Jack, the series’ main character. Jack is a man who believes that the lies he tells serve a great, admirable purpose, and Crudup is always great as Jack. Crudup plays Jack’s weak and desperate moments with the same unwavering intensity that he brings to his sometimes sermon-like sales pitches.
With directors like Jonathan Entwistle (The End of the F***ing World) and Stacie Passon (Dickinson), Hello Tomorrow! becomes one of the most visually striking shows of the year over the course of its first 10 episodes. The Apple TV+ series has a retrofuturistic style that lets it combine midcentury clothes, furniture, and architecture with its own creative sci-fi ideas. From small things like self-popping popcorn containers and self-tying ties to big things like floating cars, Hello Tomorrow! sometimes feels like an amazing live-action version of classic sci-fi cartoons like The Jetsons.
Hello Tomorrow! stands out from other sci-fi shows on TV right now and in the past because of how it looks and feels. Its first season isn’t perfect and has about two too many episodes, but the show is always interesting and well-made enough that it’s surprisingly easy to watch. That is, of course, if people can look past the fact that Hello Tomorrow!, like its morally questionable main character, is much less deep than its well-dressed exterior makes it seem.
On Apple TV+, you can now watch the first three episodes of Hello Tomorrow! Every Friday, a new episode airs for the first time.
Hello Tomorrow! Apple TV+: Episodes 1 – 2 – 3 Cast
- Billy Crudup as Jack Billings
- Haneefah Wood as Shirley Stedman
- Alison Pill as Myrtle Mayburn
- Nicholas Podany as Joey Shorter
- Dewshane Williams as Herb Porter
- Hank Azaria as Eddie
- Jacki Weaver as Barbara Billings
- Frankie Faison as Buck Manzell
- Annie McNamara as Marie Shorter
- Michael Harney as Sal
- W. Earl Brown as Big Fred
- Toni Whitlock as Kindly Grandma
- Rosalind Brown as Estelle
- Porter Kelly as Leann
- Atif Lanier as Young Buck
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