Overview
- Apple released the official Season 5 trailer and confirmed a 10-episode run with weekly installments through May 29.
- The story advances to 2012, with Happy Valley expanded into a thriving Mars colony as tensions with Earth escalate over governance.
- Joel Kinnaman returns as Ed Baldwin, aged into his 80s with prosthetics, while Sean Kaufman plays Baldwin’s grandson growing up on Mars.
- Mireille Enos joins as a member of the Mars peacekeeper force, with Costa Ronin promoted and Ruby Cruz and Ines Asserson among the new series regulars; returning cast include Toby Kebbell, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, Coral Peña, and Wrenn Schmidt.
- The trailer highlights a generational shift on Mars and hints at missions pushing deeper into the solar system, with creators Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi continuing under Wolpert and Nedivi as showrunners for the Sony-produced series.