A Dramatic New Expanse Examines the Difference Between Feeling Right and Being Right
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Hey Amos (Wes Chatham), you ve got red on you. (Screenshot: Amazon Studios)
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The Expanse season five has somehow already reached episode six with “Tribes,” a somewhat calmer instalment that’s still packed with action and incredible character work, especially for Cara Gee’s Drummer and Wes Chatham’s Amos. Tensions are sky-high as the season enters its second half.
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The Expanse one of the best sci-fi shows ever, and one of the best TV shows (full stop) of 2020 dropped the first three episodes of season five all at once last week. This week, we just got one as the Amazon series switches to a weekly release format. But
damn, what an incredible episode.
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“Gaugamela” picks up immediately after the doom-laden events of “Mother,” and it advances several key plot threads that are all interconnected, despite taking place on different planets and other points across the solar system. We also see the return of a character who’s quite changed since we saw them last and get a re-introduction to someone very important who’s been lurking around the fringes of the story for some time now.
The Expanse Just Delivered an Explosive, Game-Changing Episode
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Fred Johnson (Chad Coleman) and his helmet art wall. (Image: Amazon Studios)
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The Expanse one of the best sci-fi shows ever, and one of the best TV shows (full stop) of 2020 dropped the first three episodes of season five all at once last week. This week, we just got one as the Amazon series switches to a weekly release format. But
Screenshot: Amazon Studios
On first watch, this episode is a tense system-wide train wreck. On second watch, it made me cry twice. Brace for impact.
Spoilers for episode 4, “Gaugamela,” absolutely follow.
Bobbie and Alex don’t get a lot of screen time this week, but they open the episode with a meaningful conversation about trauma, grief, “emotional stamina,” and facing the hardest things with open eyes. It’s also about the things we do to survive the hard moments
and what comes after them, and when Bobbie said, “When you come out the other side of this, you’re going to want to be doing something that matters,” I felt it a lot more heavily than any writer could’ve imagined a viewer would.