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
We spotlight five of the many complex female characters that populate the sci-fi series.
Set 200 years in our future,
The Expanse is as much a sci-fi series as it is a political drama. Everyone wants to colonize the solar system and it’s a race to the start line. Earth is run by the United Nations, Mars is an independent nation terraforming its way to a greener future, and factions along the asteroid belt known as Belters are looking to gain more power on the interstellar stage.
The show has drawn wide praise for its stunning visuals (most sets were built-out on the largest available stages of Pinewood Toronto Studios instead of heavily relying on green screens, and in Season 4, an active quarry helped create a desolate frontier-planet look). It’s also famously scientifically accurate, a choice informed no doubt by showrunner