At the center of an argument taking place among UN leaders in the season’s opening two-episode premiere is a message as simple as it is relevant. What matures in season 2 of the show is a surer emotional core at the center of its basic three-sided conflict, surfacing a few timely political themes that never feel forced or obvious. She joins an ever-expanding cast of interesting, complex characters that would be hard to follow if The Expanse wasn’t so addictive to decipher – there’s UN Deputy Undersecretary Chrisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo), who’s still determined to find the root of this Earth/Mars schism scheming megalomaniac Jules-Pierre Mao (François Chau) OPA rebel leader Fred Johnson (Chad Coleman) and, of course, the constant threat of the blue goo festering on Eros. A Mars-focused opening scene introduces Bobbie Draper (Frankie Adams), a gunnery sergeant in the Martian Marine Corps with no love for Earthers and a badass combat suit. The Rocinante and her crew – including engineer Naomi (Dominique Tipper), pilot Alex (Cas Anvar), and mechanic/group muscle Amos (Wes Chatham) – are now safe from the nightmare on Eros, but the war between Earth and Mars that sparked at the beginning of season 1 has only escalated.įor viewers, that’s a very good thing. Picking up after the events of last year’s finale, season 2 finds Holden (Steven Strait) and Miller (Thomas Jane) dealing with the pesky after-effects of radiation poisoning that they received while trekking through the protomolecule-infested station on Eros. As it stands – thanks to the four episodes sent for review, which were too quickly gone – The Expanse is one of the best book-to-screen adaptations I’ve ever seen.
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That’s the magic of The Expanse for diehard book fans (myself included): the show is loyal to the bones of Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham’s weird, wonderful, six-book-strong series of the same name, but it’s shuffling up the deck with the wit and aplomb absolutely tantamount to the creation of a great adaptation. In a second season that’s as thrilling as anything else currently on TV, sci-fi or otherwise, The Expanse creators Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby return with a surefooted, jaw-dropping set of sophomore season stories that are as high-quality as they are deceptively clever.
Four episodes were provided prior to broadcast.Īdaptations live and die on two things: the quality of the parts of the source material directly adapted to screen, and the cleverness of the changes made in the transition to a new medium.
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