Another Sci-Fi show purporting humanity to be "hundreds" of years in the future and the only really new tech seems to be spaceships, see-through smartphones and ... nothing. People are still running around with guns, having surgeries with Y2K tech, working manual labor, believing in gods and living in a class-based society.

Where are the statis pods? The quantum computers? The nanotech and AI? The bionic implants and posthumans?

And what would a Sci-Fi show be without some good ol' romance between the main characters? Or a protagonist who was level-headed for half a season and then just l... read the rest.

If you're having a hard time to sleep and your sleeping pills don't work, you gotta try this TV show. It will work with 100%.

I was told that it's a great TV show, a bit slow, but would get better and to not give up… So I started watching it and episodes were very dull. I was dragging with it. So shallow, so dull, so boring... None of the characters seem to be interesting. Same can be said about plot. Episodes were so dull that I was almost falling asleep. They were so uninteresting that I didn't even remember them. Production seemed cheap too with the same locations… It felt like that whol... read the rest.

The Expanse is an adaptation of a series of novels by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of the two authors who co-write the book series.

This series adheres to the books quite well, though it isn't one-novel-per-episode, more like one novel per season.

All of that aside, this is an excellent series. The characters are believable in their setting of a mostly-corporate-controlled future. The pacing is a bit iffy in the first few episodes, but by and large it isn't a problem and it does get better a few episodes in.

The setting is this:

There's Earth, whose government is torn with some... read the rest.