The future looks like the 1950s: US road cruisers resembling the Ford or Chevrolet models of yesteryear, and petticoats and polka dots, bag lamps and kidney-shaped tables seem to be back or still in fashion. In the suburbs the world is still in order, men go to work and women do the housework. Only the fact that the cars don’t have wheels but float, that robots replace newspaper deliverers and bartenders and that it’s obviously affordable for everyone to buy a small apartment on the moon reveals that this is science fiction.
Billy Crudup (“The Morning Show”) plays Jack, who leads a group of sales reps who go from house to house in this retro-future, trying not to sell people vacuum cleaners but a place on the moon. “Hello Tomorrow!” is a kind of mash-up of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” and the “Jetsons”, but not only does it look like the fifties, the dramedy series also often feels quite old, sometimes told a little too long-windedly all the needs that concern Jack, his colleagues and customers. (AppleTV+)
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