<story><title>How The Expanse went from game concept to blockbuster TV series</title><url>https://andrewliptak.substack.com/p/the-expanse-james-sa-corey-syfy-amazon</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BlameKaneda</author><text>My SO and I were looking for a show to watch last November, so I did a search of &amp;quot;highest rated shows on X platform&amp;quot; and The Expanse was one of the frontrunners. There were some reviews that said it was slow to start, with lots of confusing world-building, but it picked up straight after.&lt;p&gt;We didn&amp;#x27;t get the sense that it was slow and hard to follow, at all. In fact, one of my favorite things about it is the amount of world-building that you&amp;#x27;re presented with, especially in the beginning.&lt;p&gt;We marathoned the first four seasons in a few weeks, and luckily Season 5 started less than a week after we ended. It&amp;#x27;s easily one of the best shows I&amp;#x27;ve seen in a long time, and one that I&amp;#x27;ve been recommending to people left and right.</text></comment>
<story><title>How The Expanse went from game concept to blockbuster TV series</title><url>https://andrewliptak.substack.com/p/the-expanse-james-sa-corey-syfy-amazon</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dreamcompiler</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m kind of surprised how many nerdy people I know who have never watched this show. It is by far the best (maybe only?) hard sci-fi TV show ever, and almost every episode is better than any hard sci-fi &lt;i&gt;movie&lt;/i&gt; ever made.&lt;p&gt;If AC Clarke and Stanley Kubrick were alive they&amp;#x27;d be heaping praise on this show for getting so many of the technical details exactly right.</text></comment>