The expanse tv show series#
Granted, comparing a series to Thrones isn’t as, uh, complimentary as it was before the show’s terrible final season, but to dismiss its standing as an essential piece of TV monoculture because of a bad ending would ignore what made it a sensation in the first place.
If you took a shot every time The Expanse was mentioned in the same breath as Thrones-including several times on this very website-well, let’s just say you’d be doing a stunning reenactment of Mads Mikkelsen’s latest film. Like Thrones, this space opera soars when establishing its immaculate and highly detailed worldbuilding.Ĭomparing The Expanse and Thrones isn’t exactly game-changing, or particularly original. But rather than focus on superficial spectacle-which would be quite easy to do given the interplanetary space battles and a mysterious alien technology capable of mass extinction at play-the show’s expansive (sorry) scope has always conveyed thoughtful ideas about humanity. Like Thrones, The Expanse has large-scale ambitions: It’s set 300 years in the future, as humankind colonizes the rest of the solar system and splits into three main factions on Earth, Mars, and the asteroid Belt (Belters, for short). As a vocal and perhaps slightly overbearing fan of The Expanse, the Amazon science-fiction series that’s been pound-for-pound one of the genre’s best for the past decade, I’ve found the quickest way to pitch the show to newcomers is by comparing it to Game of Thrones.
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