SummaryBased on the book series by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (under the pen name James S. A. Corey), Detective Miller (Thomas Jane) is given the assignment to find a missing heiress and meets Holden (Steven Strait), who works on a freighter called the Canterbury.
SummaryBased on the book series by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (under the pen name James S. A. Corey), Detective Miller (Thomas Jane) is given the assignment to find a missing heiress and meets Holden (Steven Strait), who works on a freighter called the Canterbury.
Continuing the tradition of thoughtfully outlining a system-wide conflict while following through a portal to countless untold problems, “The Expanse” is an evolving text that an increased sense of scale has only made richer.
Minor misgivings aside, it’s a relief to have a new season of The Expanse to get lost in. The show is still one of the best science fiction series out there, and it appears to have made the move to streaming with minimal compromises.
First off let me say that I love the novels. The show, like every adaption will never be as good as the books. However, this show in its own way is amazing. A lot of people have this as the worst of the 8 novels, I like the book a lot and I feel they did a great job adapting it for tv. To me, book 5 starts the best part of the series and continues as it gets better and better right up till the end. I think they are doing a good job setting it up.
Complicated as this set-up might read, the sheer gorgeousness of “The Expense” goes quite a distance toward shoring up a person’s commitment to it, as do the performances. ... A heavily serialized show like this one will never be easily accessible to newcomers who drop into mid-voyage. Ergo, to say that this previous description provides all you need to know to get up to speed is not quite accurate. But it does help that these new episodes reconfigure the grid a bit and simplify the plot.
The Expanse's fourth season throws a lot of balls into the air, and in the six episodes released to critics in advance, it juggles them all impressively.