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Forget ‘Severance,’ Apple TV’s ‘Hello Tomorrow!’ Is a Masterpiece From Start to Finish
Apple TV’s *Hello Tomorrow!* follows Jack Billings, a salesman offering timeshares in a supposed lunar community, in a retro-futuristic America. The series combines its science-fiction setting with a story about estranged family and lost hope, and the article argues that it deserves more recognition.
Billy Crudup plays Jack, who hires his son Joey as an assistant without revealing he is his father. As Jack repeatedly delays customers’ launch dates, the show leaves the moon homes’ existence in doubt and complicates sympathy for him. Its 1950s-inspired world features robots and automated services, but presents technology as a reminder of people’s disappointments; the series ended without a second season.
In short
- *Hello Tomorrow!* pairs lunar timeshare sales with a story of estranged family.
- Billy Crudup’s salesman hides his identity from his son.
- Its retro-futuristic setting reflects lost hope, and it had no second season.
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The case for
The series can be seen as an unusually cohesive drama, using its retro-futurist setting and uncertain lunar promise to deepen its themes of family estrangement, disappointment and hope. Billy Crudup’s salesman is both deceptive and vulnerable, giving the story moral complexity, and its cancellation does not diminish the case that it merits more recognition.
The case against
The same choices may make the series less effective: keeping the moon homes’ reality uncertain and having Jack repeatedly postpone customers’ launches can leave the central deception unresolved rather than dramatically satisfying. Its stylised setting and themes may not compensate for viewers who find the story slow or its characters difficult to invest in, so calling it a masterpiece from start to finish is a matter of taste.