The Expanse Ended Its Best Season to Date With a Hell of a Ride
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The odds ain t good for these guys. (Image: Amazon Studios)
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It’s that time,
Expanse fans, when the finale we’ve been dying to see arrives and then leaves us dying to know what happens next once it’s over. Season four ended with Marco Inaros (Keon Alexander) preparing to attack Earth, but season five’s “Nemesis Games” ended with something even
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We’re almost to the end of an incredibly good season, even for
The Expanse. Tense action, nuanced performances, and a quiet treatise on a better way to live: “Winnipesaukee” is the show at its best. The table is neatly, brilliantly set for next week’s season finale.
Spoilers for episode 9, “Winnipesaukee,” follow! I love a show that can tell you one of its thesis statements without making it feel like a grand proclamation. This season keeps returning to Amos’s thoughts on tribes, which he delivered like just another rough life lesson. Amos doesn’t always say a lot, though, so the things he says tend to stick, as we saw with Clarissa’s repetition of his “take whatever they give you” mantra.
'The Expanse' Season 5 has been a wild ride, and this holds true for 'Winnipesaukee' as well. Filming the ninth episode included some unique hurdles, however.
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That English-speaking Canadians don’t watch as much homegrown television or film as folks in other countries has been bemoaned by creators and cultural nationalists for generations.
But the pandemic has really provided a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reverse that tendency.
With only a couple episodes left,
The Expanse slowed things down a lot for ‘Hard Vacuum’ by setting the board for the finale in some interesting ways, but ultimately didn’t feel like much had really happened. It was still bolstered by the performances of the cast, but was hampered by the pacing and the focus more on the set up.
‘Hard Vacuum’ caught us up on some developments that we hadn’t seen for a little while, such as the damage to Earth the asteroid strikes caused with tsunamis flooding cities and the response Earth was looking to give Marco Inaros and all Belters. Those held some pretty interesting moments, especially for Amos and Clarissa as they met with Amos’ old gangster friend and spoke about how his way of life will no longer be the same. It was still a bit of a shame we didn’t get to see more of a first-hand look at how the asteroids damaged cities or other parts of the world, but their conversation still conveyed the severity of the situation. Likew