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Star City ends its first season with the Soviet Union's cosmonaut program reaching Venus and Anastasia making a desperate run to save Sasha before the KGB closes in. The finale, The Wolves, is now streaming on Apple TV.
That is why viewers are searching for Star City now. The series has not yet been renewed for Season 2, so the season-ending turn on Venus is the last thing Apple TV has made available, and it lands with no immediate answer about what comes next for Anastasia, Sasha, Lakshmi and Valya.
For much of the season, Anastasia and Sasha have been separated by duty and desire. They share one night of passion before he is sent into space on a secret mission to Venus, and by the finale the cost of that choice comes due. The Chief Designer tells Anastasia that Sasha's mission was never lost, only hidden from view, and that knowledge sends her back into action. She steals a transport ship, returns to Earth, and then steals a truck to block the KGB's path as she races to reach Sasha and Lakshmi before they cross the border and seek asylum in Finland.
The finale's biggest reveal is not just that Venus was reached, but why the story chose it: the mission is a hard proof of Soviet ambition, a destination that turns the season's private heartbreak into state triumph. Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert have described the romance in the language of Russian literature, and the episode leans into that idea without softening it. Anastasia's loyalty collides with the directives she is expected to follow, and she chooses him anyway.
What keeps the ending from feeling clean is the price attached to survival. Sasha gets Lakshmi over the border and then surrenders himself with a peaceful smile on his face, only a field away from safety in Finland. Valya sacrifices himself to finish the Chief Designer's mission and make Sasha and Lakshmi's return possible, clutching a picture of Tanya as he accepts what that means. The season closes on a victory for the program and a loss for almost everyone inside it, which is exactly why the unanswered question matters now: if Apple TV does bring Star City back, it will have to pick up a world in which Venus has been reached, Sasha is gone, and Anastasia is left with the consequences of saving him.
