The weird space-age world of steampunk series ‘Hello, Tomorrow!’
nypost.comHello, Tomorrow,” where everything isn’t as it seems.The new Apple TV+ series, starring Billy Crudup as a fast-talking salesman with secrets, unfolds in a weird, hybrid world mixing 1950s attitudes, clothing and lifestyles with a quasi-steampunk futuristic flavor.
It’s a world in which sandwiches cost 40 cents, people tool around in tail-finned, flying cars; robots do everything from walking the dog to delivering mail to crooning at swank soriees; and there are black-and-white video telephone calls and holograms programmed with punch cards.
That places “Hello, Tomorrow!” in its own quirky universe of time and space: it could be a futuristic version of Eisenhower-era America or in the future from now.
Who knows? It’s simultaneously compelling and sometimes distracting — but never boring.Crudup plays smarmy Jack Billings, the star shill for the Brightside Lunar Residence, a moon-based colony of houses and timeshares (“Zero money down, $150 a month, no taxes!”) who stops at nothing, including skirting the truth, to close a deal.
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