Miles Dale

Miles Dale is a Helios contractor on Mars, one of the ordinary workers rather than astronauts or executives, driving rovers and keeping the base running. Away from his family and stretched thin financially, he starts looking for small extra hustles on the side, practical and a little reckless, to make the posting worth the sacrifice.

For All Mankind has spent years among astronauts and administrators, so grounding a season in a working man's view of Mars is a smart swerve, and Toby Kebbell plays him without space-program polish — tired, resourceful, funny in a scraping-by way. He makes the frontier feel like a job site, which is what makes his choices land.