3 Body Problem

Stupid JJ Abrams style Mystery box bullshit storytelling from D&D. Everything is hinted at, nothing is revealed. Dogshit dialogue, garbage characters. I didn't care about the future of humanity in this story. The question on my mind is how on earth did a season of episodes set in contemporary times cost 160-200 million dollars and look this cheap. "I believe you'll know when the time is right! " JJ Abrams style cryptic bullshit dialogue has ruined high end television.

There's a lot of potential here, but it's all squished in 8 episodes. This is grand sci-fi but 8 episodes simply doesn't do it justice. There are some great emotional, philosophical moments in the series from the hospital bed scene with Will, and the ending bug scene, but there's also heaps of nonsense throughout all of it that I assume are better explained or portrayed in the books and the original Chinese series.

It’s not as good as you might hope considering the material it’s adapting, but it’s still mostly goof and enjoyable, with occasional exceptional moments. Eliza Gonzales is abysmal in this, her wooden performance significantly drags down the entirely production.

As an adaptation, it does well at transforming the narrative into something that will work on screen without butchering the events that make the book series so striking. The creators have correctly assessed that the character work was what needed the most work, I am not fond of making them all so closely knit though. That makes the world feel smaller than it needs to. My main criticism is that audiovisually they haven't really captured the feeling of existential cosmic terror from the books.

While I do commend the work they put into the characters (and even the character combinations) to give this some life, everything else about this felt flat. The visuals are unimpressive, the acting by almost everybody is poor, and everything feels so rushed that the incredible sci fi ideas that made the books so great don't get enough breathing time to feel important or impactful.

It started well but soon somebody spilled coffee over the script and so they conjured up a soap opera script or something. - Full Review

3 Body Problem

1x; Stopped after S1.

Uneven at best. The season could have been about 2 episodes shorter.

Worse than the books, and that is saying something because the books are awful.