Just make sure that list includes Thomas Jane’s hat. You owe it to yourself to watch, if only to create your own list of things in The Expanse that annoy you. It’s a show that’s stubbornly carried by its strengths, to levels of quality it has no right attaining. They’ll complain about the clunky dialogue and the strange performances, but there’s nothing else like it.
It’s funny, but almost everyone I know who watches The Expanse, including myself, loves to complain about it. You’ll be shocked by how much ground it covers and how seamlessly it moves from one civilization-altering crisis to the next. Some of its six seasons are better than others, but The Expanse is incredibly consistent. Much like Dark - for my money the best show on Netflix - The Expanse is now fully complete and, unlike most sci-fi shows, defied the odds and finished well. Ultimately, The Expanse is a show that will never disappoint you. The Expanse is cool, clinical and smart - and sometimes the wooden performances amplify that in ways that should be bad, but often feels good? In a universe that lacks warmth, dialed back, minimalist performances make sense. The Expanse feels like how I think a Mass Effect show could feel, if that ever comes to fruition and is somehow decent. Not everyone enjoys its metallic, video-game-esque color scheme, but I like video games, so I’m a fan. The show’s aesthetic plays a similar trick. “It’s a show that’s stubbornly carried by its strengths, to levels of quality it has no right attaining.” Ultimately, The Expanse is a show about all these things, but places its uniquely crafted universe at its core, giving it a through line lesser sci-fi shows don’t have.
Then it becomes a show about exploring strange new planets. Later, it’s a show about alien technology and the arms race associated with that. It’s hard sci-fi at all times, but in its first couple of seasons, The Expanse plays out like a murder mystery. The magic of The Expanse is how effortlessly the show flits between genres. Sick of being trampled upon by the “Earthers,” the Belters are threatening revolution, but lack the power or resources to truly strike back at their oppressors.Įverything that occurs in The Expanse stems from the tensions between these three discrete groups. The wild cards are the Belters, residents of outer planets and asteroid belts who have developed their own Creole-esque language and, alongside that, a culture completely separate from the humans on Earth and Mars. Those still on Earth are the preening, politically savvy elite. The humans who have colonized Mars are a military-focused, tough group of people prone to resolving conflict with force. In one corner we have Earth and all its citizens. It’s a show about the very real perils of space travel and colonization, but also a surprisingly nuanced show that deals in interplanetary politics and class warfare. It is dense with peerless universe building.
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Set hundreds of years in the future when humans are spread out across the solar system, The Expanse is based on a series of hard sci-fi novels written by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck under the pen name James S.A.
On the contrary, I think The Expanse is very good. In fact, depending on what you value in your television, you could even call The Expanse “bad.”
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I want people to know from the outset: This TV show is not perfect.
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Whenever I go full hog trying to convince someone to watch The Expanse, I like to get this list out of the way. Literally every decision made by Detective Miller (played by Thomas Jane) makes zero sense.Despite having to do a lot of heavy lifting, the CGI can feel creaky and low budget.The dialogue is regularly stilted and unnatural.The acting is frequently off, sometimes flat-out bizarre.But before I do, here are some things that are not good about The Expanse. Fair warning: I’m about to gush about The Expanse.
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