Spoiler alert: This post contains some Netflix-specific details 3 Body probleman eight-episode series, is scheduled for release on the streamer on March 21.
“Why should I change my mind about what the world might look like 400 years from now,” says Saul Durand (Jovan Adepo), a physics research assistant on the Netflix show. 3 Body problem. “I have no control over that.”
These words hit me hard, because that’s exactly how I felt about the bloated and often remarkably boring big-budget sci-fi series from game of thrones Creators David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Real blood Producer Alexander Wu.
Debuting tonight at SXSW at the Paramount Theater in Austin, the intriguing Netflix series is based on the writing of Hugo Award-winner Liu Cixin. Scheduled to be released with eight episodes worldwide almost everywhere except China, Seishin’s home country, on March 21, the truth is 3 Body problem It’s pedestrian at best when it should be epic – and that’s a problem.
Here, amid the death throes of Peak TV, this strangely small saga about an alien invasion set to arrive centuries in the future is so philosophically pretentious that it makes… Resurrection of the MatrixHe looks like Voltaire Candide. For those ardent critics game of thrones“The last season, which I wasn’t one of, 3 Body problem It will generate more than a little anecdote – and should remind us all how rarely lightning strikes twice, if you know what I mean?
We move from the murderous chaos of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, to a group of scholarly-minded Oxford friends in modern London, 3 Body problem Packs of immersive video games, crashing particle accelerators, dying geniuses, Cape Canaveral, and the United Nations (which also appear more powerful and influential in such sci-fi projects than they have for decades in real-world realpolitik). Despite all that, it’s clear that a multi-session first season is planned 3 Body problem It is, at its core, a murder mystery that goes astray.
A space-nuclear murder mystery that eats up Nembutal into one of the most likely thrillers out there with some bleached-out historical shocks.
(L-R) Eiza Gonzalez as Augie Salazar, Jess Hong as Jin Cheng, Samer Osmani as Raj Varma, Jovan Adepo as Saul Durand, Alex Sharp as Will Downing, and John Bradley as Jack Rooney in 3 Trouble In the body.
Starring Adepo, Rosalind Chow, MCU alum Benedict Wong, Eiza González, Alex Sharp, Zine Tseng, Samer Usmani, Jess Hong, Marlo Kelly, and Sea Shimooka with Westeros and Essos vets Jonathan Pryce, John Bradley, and Liam Cunningham. 3 Body problem He wants to seem very important and very serious.
it’s not like that. What it is is something that tries to be everything. A big book with many big ideas and twists, shrinking like Kandor’s Superman into something easily digestible on the small screen. No matter how much money you try to get on the screen, 3 body problem’The biggest existential threats she faces are how redundant everything is, and how every plot twist can be seen from a galaxy far, far away, like Omar Sharif coming across the desert on horseback. Lawrence of Arabia.
It all adds up to books, no matter how innovative they are 3 Body problem The TV series draws from the disappointing reality in the minds of many fans that the TV series is clearly unoriginal.
For example, here’s a non-spoiler example: 3BP Full of cameos from Jake Tapper and other CNN hosts performing the equivalent of the show over and over again. Their appearance is designed to give the show a real-world vibe, and I get that. However, let’s be honest, we’ve all seen it before in dozens of apocalypse or alien invasion movies or series, whether the background announcers are from CNN, MSNC or even Fox News. I mean dozens and dozens, to some extent, in a world of information overload on social media that far exceeds cable news, it would be more creative not to have talking heads.
In that sense, like a band looking to achieve greatness through the quality of their record collection, Netflix 3 Body problem It works best as an influence detection game.
Take some of the original War of the WorldsA large number of B-movies about outer space in the 1950s, independence day, Deep impactAnd Access From the big screen. Then grab some AppleTV+ InvadeAnd the latest is excellent Korean series Duty after schoolPlus dust off SyFy the challengeTNT Falling skyFrancis Ford Coppola EP’d First wave From the small screen, with a few scoops Weird things, Which can never be forgotten Sense8And swollen institution.
If you’re looking for praise for the first season 3 Body problemI will say, it moves at a slightly faster clip, and with a more cohesive narrative than last year’s 30-episode Chinese version, at least from what I’ve seen of both shows. Truth be told though, the cameo presence of the wonderfully recurring Wong aside, this is somewhat faint praise for the new show compared to its Middle Kingdom predecessor – essentially, at the level at which we try to gauge which glacier is melting the fastest.
Showrunners Benioff, Weiss and Woo said things are really taking off 3 Body problem Down the line, just like Owns an act. Like a show with a lot of voiceovers, such a warning is never a good sign. Also, at this point in the streaming multiverse, who has the patience for such serial nudity?
When the first season is so boring and cliched… shouldn’t someone take matters into their own hands?
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