Since it premiered, The Expanse has been an example of top tier special effects and production design, easily matching what HBO can do. The biggest shift when The Expanse moved from SyFy to Prime is the more liberal use of profanity. Within a single episode, the story can shift from massive looks at ships facing off in outer space or realizing the smallest details of what the different societies look like in dozens of locations ranging from familiar to utterly alien. There is loss, romance, animosity, and more in the smaller moments of this series. But with the narrative essentially planned out for them, showrunners Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby have done an admirable job of keeping the story focused on the endgame while still managing to continue developing these characters as fully as possible. There is a lot of story here which has deviated slightly from the source novels by James S.A. Much like Game of Thrones before it, The Expanse has a massive cast spread over long distances who all get a fair amount of screen time. Season five ups the stakes significantly as sides are drawn between the Inner Worlds and the united threat under Inaros. It certainly is a long way from when detective Joe Miller (Thomas Jane) was investigating what seemed like a standard missing person case back in the first season. On Earth, UN leader Chrisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo) continued to find ways to prevent threats from beyond the planet. Before that, James Holden (Steven Strait) and the crew of the Rocinante including Naomi Nagata (Dominique Tipper), Amos Burton (Wes Chatham), and Alex Kamal (Cas Anvar) were dispatched to various locations in the Solar System to unravel mysteries and threats to humanity. While the previous seasons have sowed seeds of animosity between the United Nations and the Belters, it reached a tipping point last year with the introduction of Marco Inaros (Keon Alexander). It also has set the stage to venture further from the known reaches of space thanks to the concept of Ring-gates. The first season played more like a mystery that set the table for all of the various factions and groups, but from season two onward The Expanse has transformed into a massive political thriller. Like the Old West, the further from civilization you are the harder it becomes to police. Like warring countries, these various factions struggle to get along with amenities like water serving as major sources of power. The common names heard through the series are Earthers, Belters (those working on Ceres and stations within the Asteroid Belt), Martians, and the OPAs. The main factions are the United Nations of Earth and Luna, the Martian Congressional Republic, and the Outer Planets Alliance (OPA). Here is a crash course on The Expanse: several hundred years in the future, the solar system has been colonized. I can also tell you that season five does not disappoint. For all of you, I am sorry it took me so long to check this show out. Expanse fans are likely nodding their heads in agreement. I discovered that not only is The Expanse one of the smartest shows on television, but it is also as epic as Game of Thrones and Battlestar Galactica combined. Now, as the series begins its penultimate season, I decided to binge the first four. Needless to say, even when The Expanse jumped from SyFy to Amazon Prime Video, I still did not prioritize it. Yes, they are the network that brought us Battlestar Galactica, but that is the exception to the rule. To be fair, it did premiere on SyFy who aren't exactly known for the quality of their output. Right or wrong, The Expanse is a series I failed to watch when it debuted five years ago. While we try to review as many shows as possible, some fall through the cracks. Review: We watch a lot of television here at. For the crew of the Rocinante and the leaders of the Inner Planets and the Belt, the past and present converge, bringing forth personal challenges that have wide-reaching repercussions throughout the Solar System. Plot: Season Five of the series picks up as multitudes of humans leave the solar system in search of new homes and vast fortunes on the earth-like worlds beyond the alien Ring, and a heavy price for centuries of exploitation of the Belt finally comes due and a reckoning is at hand.
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