Hello Tomorrow! trailer: Apple made an Elon Musk in Fallout show

Remember when Elon Musk wasn’t in the news every day because of his latest decisions about Twitter, and was instead regularly in the news because he was constantly talking about his timelines for sending people to live on (or more disturbingly, die on) Mars? Apple TV Plus’ upcoming series Hello Tomorrow! This feels like a sequel to that period, with Billy Crudup as the timeshare broker selling timeshares in exchange for an assumed settlement on Moon. First trailer Hello Tomorrow! gives his salesman character, Jack, an Elon-like positivity about the future of humanity living in space, but also an Elon-like pie-in-the-sky approach that may be ahead of his era’s actual available technology.

The show also takes place at a FalloutRetro-future in 1950s style, with designs and fashions reminiscent of the 1950s. Each vehicle has its own futuristic twist. These hovercars have fins! Countertop bubble microwaves! Fallout-style grim upbeat messaging!

But it’s also possible that this show is less a response to SpaceX’s “Let’s all move to space” marketing or Fallout’s dark yet cheery future setting, and more a response to the critical success of Apple TV Plus’ For all Mankind, Ronald D. Moore’s very tonally different series that’s also an alt-history version of the space race. The steady positive response to that series might have inspired the streamer to try a completely different take on a similar idea — in this case, a series more about selling the space race than actually competing in it.

Here’s Apple TV Plus’ series description:

Set in a retro-future world, “Hello Tomorrow!” centers around a group of traveling salesmen hawking lunar timeshares. Billy Crudup portrays Jack, a brilliant and ambitious salesman who inspires his colleagues, revitalises his customers, and leaves him feeling dangerously lost in the dream that sustains them all.

Star Trek: Picard’s Alison Pill co-stars and appears in the trailer, with Haneefah Wood, Nicholas Podany, Dewshane Williams, and Hank Azaria also slated for roles. This 10-episode series, which runs for half an hour, will debut on Friday, February 17th with three of its episodes. New episodes will follow each week.