![]() Trump’s Lawyers Warn Him: Get Ready to Be Indicted by the Feds At its core, The Expanse is all about people responding to fear – fear of the other, fear of the new, fear of inequality, fear of death. (A world where water is scarce and air is rationed isn’t that hard to envision right now.) And that focus on human behavior allows the show to explore issues like empathy, martyrdom, poverty and how fear can dictate one’s actions. In other words, this is not a Star Trek exploration saga about discovering new aliens every week – it’s the story of real people fighting for their small corner of the universe day after day. (Aren’t we all Belters, caught between the “Blues” and “Reds” of 2017?) ![]() ![]() A two-party – sorry, two-planet – system that divides those caught in the middle? Sound familiar? And it’s no coincidence that Bobbie regularly refers to Earth soldiers as ” Blues,” while she’s from the ” Red” planet. There’s no #FakeNews subplot (yet), but The Expanse has a facility for sliding between the political machinations of those in power and the people impacted by these interstellar political decisions. Meanwhile, a Deckard-esque police detective named Josephus Miller (Thomas Jane) becomes obsessed with a missing girl named Julie Mao, who may be the key to understanding an escalating cosmic Cold War.Įven more remarkably, the show has found a way to be politically relevant to the current moment without depressingly reminding you of the state of our nation. A distress signal leads to the mysterious destruction of a ship, stranding Captain Jim Holden (Steven Strait) and his ragtag crew in deep space. Set 200 years from now, the show imagines a future in which tensions arise between our planet and a colonized Mars a ring of blue-collar space stations called “The Belt” houses the solar system’s lowest social class. (Corey is, in fact, a shared pseudonym for authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.) Surprisingly, this plays to the show’s advantage: The detailed background required for a video game gave TV writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (who co-wrote Children of Men) a vast storytelling universe with which to play when it came to adapting the novels. Corey’s popular series of space novels was first conceived as an online RPG. You may have to go all the way back to Battlestar Galactica, which went off the air in 2009, to find a show that’s done for sci-fi what Game of Thrones has done for fantasy or The Walking Dead has done for horror.īut here’s the thing: There i s a great science fiction show currently airing new episodes Wednesday nights on SyFy. Orphan Black and Black Mirror have some of sci-fi elements, sure, but they aren’t quite representative of the genre. HBO’s Westworld might count, though that’s almost as much western as it is sci-fi. Quick, name the last great science fiction TV show you’ve seen.
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