Warning: spoilers ahead for episode six of season five of “The Expanse.”
Given the appropriate title “Tribes,” the sixth installment for this season of “The Expanse” delivers a little bit of everything. While the previous episode had its own share of memorable moments, it felt like mostly set-up. Not so with “Tribes,” which pays off the escape of Alex and Bobbie, lets us check back in with Avasarala, accelerates the confrontation between Drummer and Marco, and gives us even more fantastic character development with Amos.
The episode also harmonizes its pacing between methodical, rich, quiet moments, and frenetic action sequences. This is no easy task, but “The Expanse” balances it with near-perfect execution.
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Spoilers for episode 5, “Down and Out,” follow!
“Gaugamela” was a lot to take in as it was happening, but it was really just the beginning. The season’s first three episodes set such an elaborate stage just to knock everything down in “Gaugamela” and
then show us how much farther down they have left to go. Almost everyone almost died, and no one is safe. Not yet.
But there’s one large and distracting flaw in the plot this time: I didn’t believe for one second that Holden (or Bull! or anyone else on Tycho!) would fail to consider that Sakai might have sabotaged the
Amos Burton (Wes Chatham) heads to Earth in season five. (Image: Amazon Studios)
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“I think it’s the best thing we’ve done so far,” Wes Chatham, who plays Amos Burton, says of
The Expanse’s fifth season. We agree and we also think Amos’ thrilling, emotional storyline has a lot to do with that success. In season five, we see him pay a long-awaited return visit to Earth, where things…take a turn.
One of the standout characters of The Expanse's fifth season is Amos Burton, who returns to Earth to face his past and must then confront an uncertain future, too. We talked to actor Wes Chatham about the relationships that helped shape Amos' journey.
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Rocinante. Although it was originally cancelled at SyFy after just three seasons,
The Expanse was saved by Amazon in 2018, due in part to the large-scale #SaveTheExpanse fan movement, with a petition that garnered over 138,000 signatures. That fan attention undoubtedly inspired Amazon and Jeff Bezos, who is a huge fan, to make the final decision to save the show. Since that initial surprise announcement that the show would continue under Amazon s purview for Season 4,
The Expanse has been renewed another two times, with the sixth and final season announced just ahead of the Season 5 premiere.
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