Monday, September 3, 2018

The Sci-Fi Show That Leaves All The Others in the Dust

Sorry Trekkers, you got bumped. 

I love you guys, but you're out of luck, Whovians. 

Too bad, Star Wars fans (Ummm...apparently, there's no collective noun for you guys)

It sounds sacrilegious but you've got to take a second seat, Browncoats. 

There's a new sheriff in town - The Expanse, a TV series based on a series of novels by James S. A. Corey.   

From Wikipedia:
Hundreds of years in the future, in a colonized Solar System, police detective Josephus Miller (Thomas Jane), born on Ceres in the asteroid belt, is assigned to find a missing young woman, Juliette "Julie" Andromeda Mao (Florence Faivre). James Holden (Steven Strait), the Executive Officer of the ice hauler Canterbury, is involved in a tragic incident that threatens to destabilize the uneasy peace between EarthMars and the Belt. On Earth, Chrisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo), a United Nations executive, works to prevent war between Earth and Mars by any means necessary. Soon, the three find out that the missing woman and the ice hauler's fate are part of a vast conspiracy that threatens humanity.

It received a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation as well as three Saturn Award nominations for Best Science Fiction Television SeriesAlcon Entertainment produces and finances the series. It sold three seasons to Syfy, which canceled the series in May 2018; Amazon Video picked up a fourth season of the series later that month.
Can you tell I'm hooked?


You can watch all three seasons (for free) on Amazon Prime.




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