The Expanse 2015
Created by Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby
- Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- 6 seasons
- 62 episodes
- Ended
- TV-14
The stars are better off without us.
A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
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- pocketdrummeron TMDB · Sep 202410/10
**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 received and reviewed on other sites. As Beltalowda say, Xetamang tili du xeta. I'm going to be intentionally vague here: There are several elements at play in the show. One arc of the first season focuses on the mystery of a missing person and a detective's journey finding out what happened to her. The second focuses on who's responsible for a ship that was destroyed. A third focuses on a dangerous and valuable substance that was found, and a fourth that focuses on the political climate of the solar system while certain events trigger tension between Earth, Mars, and The Belt. The first and second mysteries are solved in the first season, but the rest evolve and grow throughout the rest of the series. The series has a diverse cast of strong characters without resorting to the usual lazy denigration that
Read the whole review on TMDB - conciliatoron TMDB · Dec 20239/10
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 micro lens through political intrigue, detective stories and the established trope of a tiny ship's crew falling in over their heads. Besides the production issues, I found that while the rest of the cast was excellent, Holden's character was played poorly, and his development didn't really come across without knowledge of the books. While the plot suffers from the production constraints, the story still feels exciting and it's fun to puzzle out which patois the Belter lingo is borrowing from at any given time. I can only wish they had a few more seasons to work with, but that's television as a medium...
Read the whole review on TMDB - YetAnotherMovieWatcheron TMDB · Apr 202010/10
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 pacing is a bit iffy in the first few episodes, but by and large it isn't a problem and it does get better a few episodes in. The setting is this: There's Earth, whose government is torn with some seeking to control or best the government of Mars and the emerging government of the Belt. There's Mars, who consider themselves pretty autonomous (and they are), and who are bent upon a generations-long project to terraform Mars so that men don't have to live under domes. There's the Belt, which basically includes people in the asteroid belt and beyond. If that amount of political upheaval isn't enough, something new is coming...
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Cast
- Steven StraitJim Holden
- Dominique TipperNaomi Nagata
- Wes ChathamAmos Burton
- Shohreh AghdashlooChrisjen Avasarala
- Frankie AdamsBobbie Draper
- Cara GeeCamina Drummer
- Nadine NicoleClarissa Mao
- Keon AlexanderMarco Inaros
- Jasai Chase-OwensFilip Inaros
Crew
- Mark FergusCreator
- Hawk OstbyCreator
- Ty FranckNovel
- Daniel AbrahamNovel
- Clinton ShorterOriginal Music Composer
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Seasons
- Season 110 eps · 2015
- Season 213 eps · 2017
- Season 313 eps · 2018
- Season 410 eps · 2019
- Season 510 eps · 2020
- Season 66 eps · 2021
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