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Friday, 5th February 2021 at 9:03 am
The Expanse has finally wrapped up its fifth season on Amazon Prime Video, which aired weekly on the streaming platform starting from mid-December.
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The latest episodes of the sci-fi drama, which is set in a distant future where humanity has colonised the Solar System, focused primarily on the threat of Marco Inaros (Keon Alexander).
Following a devastating attack on Earth and the death of a longtime crew member, the stakes really have never been higher heading into the (supposedly) final season.
Read on for everything you need to know about The Expanse season six.
The Expanse shows the dangers of treating extremism as a joke Salon 2/4/2021 The Expanse Amazon Studios The following contains
spoilers from the Season 5 finale of The Expanse.
Events depicted in Amazon s The Expanse, which just wrapped its fifth season, take place two centuries in the future when humankind has colonized Mars and cultivated a downtrodden working class in the asteroid belts between Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Apparently no amount of time diminishes the solid charms of a classic joke setup, because early on in the season an Earth admiral attempts to lighten a deposed politician s dark mood by telling his version of the classic A, B and C walk into a bar . . .
Holden and Bull agree that the
Roci has no chance against their aggressors they’re outnumbered and extremely outgunned but what they don’t know is that three of the five ships pursuing them are under the command of Drummer (Cara Gee), or they
would be if Marco zealot Karal (Olunike Adeliyi) hadn’t bullied her way into being in charge.
The Expanse is careful to show us all of the ships involved setting up the battle ahead and then build the tension steadily; the camera is in constant motion aboard Drummer’s ship as Karal settles in behind the firing controls, eager to blast the