The Expanse
(2015)
Reviews
Another Sci-Fi show purporting humanity to be "hundreds" of years in the future and the only really new tech seems to be spaceships, see-through smartphones and ... nothing. People are still running around with guns, having surgeries with Y2K tech, working manual labor, believing in gods and living in a class-based society. Where are the statis pods? The quantum computers? The nanotech and AI?…
If you're having a hard time to sleep and your sleeping pills don't work, you gotta try this TV show. It will work with 100%. I was told that it's a great TV show, a bit slow, but would get better and to not give up… So I started watching it and episodes were very dull. I was dragging with it. So shallow, so dull, so boring... None of the characters seem to be interesting. Same can be said ab…
The Expanse is an adaptation of a series of novels by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of the two authors who co-write the book series. This series adheres to the books quite well, though it isn't one-novel-per-episode, more like one novel per season. All of that aside, this is an excellent series. The characters are believable in their setting of a mostly-corporate-controlled future. The …
Let me just say this: read the books instead, but watch the show immediately afterwards? The production was beset by issues, dropped by SyFy and picked up by Amazon, then a key actor committed assault and the show was diverged to adapt for his absence, and when the Amazon bucks ran out the last season collapsed without delivering. The source material is great, vast geopolitical space opera with a…
**One of the best Sci-Fi shows ever made!** Oye! First time viewer? Make sure to make it to the episode 4 "CQB". About the books: Yes, they are fantastic. The show is also fantastic. It's okay to like both even if they aren't the same. A note on other reviews here: I'm surprised by all of the negativity in the other reviews considering how overwhelmingly positive the show has been receiv…