![]() Space travel is fast but not faster than light, and close attention is paid to the potential for catastrophe at every moment. It’s contained within our solar system, where humanity has managed to colonize Mars and push out to the asteroid belt. Set about 300 years in the future, it doesn’t imagine ships zapping among star clusters. “The Expanse” operates on a smaller, more intimate scale than “Galactica,” though, which is both a large part of its charm and a reason that it isn’t, at the end of the day, as viscerally exciting as its predecessor. ![]() The 9/11 connection becomes even stronger, if anything, in the new season of “The Expanse,” where a series of undetectable asteroids aimed at earth by an off-world zealot suggest the hijacked airplanes bearing down on New York and Washington. ![]() 11, mid-climate-crisis associations with terrorist violence and existential dread are the same. “Galactica” had a more drastic premise - a handful of surviving humans chased around the galaxy by exterminating cyborgs - but the post-Sept. It was an easy move for the “Galactica” faithful. “The Expanse” is the natural heir to the cult-favorite “Battlestar Galactica” (2004-9) it’s another old-fashioned, hard-core space adventure set within an up-to-date clash-of-civilizations political allegory. With regard to the show’s intensely devoted following, a binge only confirms what was obvious from the first few episodes. So with Season 5 of “The Expanse” - announced as the show’s next to last - premiering on Prime Video on Wednesday, I went back and caught up with the 42 episodes I’d missed since that initial piece, and tacked on the nine (of 10) episodes of the new season available for review. “Hello? ‘The Expanse’? Anyone?” an anonymous commenter asked, plaintively summing up the frustration of that popular space opera’s fan base every time we fail to give the show its due. Our most egregious omissions this year, according to readers, included new shows like Netflix’s “Queen’s Gambit,” Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” and HBO’s “How to With John Wilson.”īut right there with them was a durable Amazon Prime Video series that we’ve mostly been ignoring since 2015, when I gave a ho-hum review to its first four episodes (then on the Syfy channel). Every year at this time, I and my colleagues on the television beat publish our lists of the year’s best shows and wait, with much interest and some resignation, to be told what we missed.
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