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Apple+ brings retro-future magic with ‘Hello, Tomorrow’

By DAVE MASON NEWS-PRESS MANAGING EDITOR

‘Hello, Tomorrow” is all about the future — as it was imagined in the 1950s.

The retro-future series on Apple TV begins with a great premise and commits to with unforgettable characters and a Jetsons-like sense of technology — especially the robots. They’re not androids. They are the classic bulky, sci-fi robots with very robotic voices, and they’ll do everything from deliver you a telegram to fix you a drink.

new episodes on Fridays on Apple+, features a self-driving delivery van that has a nice 1950s touch. The technology seems cool, but it’s not flawless.

And it’s the flaws that give “Hello, Tomorrow,” which is both a comedy and a drama, its charm.

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“Hello, Tomorrow” streams with new episodes on Fridays on Apple+.

Today’s episode is called “The Numbers Behind the Numbers.”

In “Hello, Tomorrow,” an actor from another Apple TV series, “The Morning Show” — Emmy winner Billy Crudup — stars as Jack Billings, a salesman who leads other sales associates in making the perfect pitch to sell people timeshares on the moon.

This really is like “The Jetsons.”

All that’s missing are a moving sidewalk and some space needles.

In “Hello, Tomorrow,” a company called Brightside is selling timeshares on the moon in an era that blends the style of the 1950s with some future tech. Yes, people have video phones! But the images are black-and-white, and they appear on portable TVlike, Jetsons-like sets. There’s no cellphones in this reality. The cars are straight out of the 1950s. They just don’t need tires because they hover above the street.

The first episode of “Hello, Tomorrow,” which streams with

It seems legitimate enough. People see rockets blasting off, but “Hello Tomorrow” raises the question of whether these timeshares are real. And the agents may not know the real answer.

There are some personal complications. Jack brings the son (Joey, played by Nicholas Podany) he abandoned into the enterprise. The only thing is Joey doesn’t know Jack is his father, the dad he never saw, and Jack doesn’t know how to tell him.

Mr. Crudrup, who is also one of the show’s executive producers, does a great job playing the flawed Jack, who has a good heart

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