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Syfy The Expanse Is An
Oasis In This
Winter TV
Desert
With the end of
Fargo and the last
Supergirl before holiday break last night,
I’ve officially reached the end of my TV rope for the year.
Pretty much everything is off the air until 2016, so it’s the perfect time to debut a new show, right?
Sort of.
It’s a little bit unorthodox, as you won’t see too many mid-December premieres, but that’s what Syfy is doing with The Expanse, their new space opera that is a life preserver in an ocean of winter TV boredom.
The show premiered Monday night (along with
Childhood’s End, which I have yet to watch), and the second half of its two-night premiere was yesterday. After that, it will air an episode every week without breaks until the ten episode season is complete. Syfy has enough confidence in the show where they picked it up for season two before it even aired.
I’m a bit ahead of the game. I’ve actually watched the first four episodes of the series through press screeners (
Update: Syfy has actually put the first four episodes online, which you can watch here), and I’ve also read all five of the books which have been released at an incredibly rapid clip since the debut of
Leviathan Wakes in
2011, which is being adapted for this first season. They’re by
James S.A. Corey, the pen name of two authors,
Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, and they don’t show signs of slowing down.
Given how few space operas are on TV these days, or really, have been on TV in the past decade, the show will draw obvious comparisons to predecessors like
Firefly and Syfy’s own
Battlestar Galactica. Centered on a conflict between
Earth,
Mars and “Belters” who reside in the solar system’s asteroid belt (all are human), there are elements from many different science fiction staples, but ultimately, The Expanse is its own thing, and so far, it’s rather fantastic.
Read more:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/
2015/12/16/syfys-the-expanse-is-an-oasis-in-this-winters-tv-desert/
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- published: 17 Dec 2015
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