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Adaptations 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. 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.
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. As it stands – thanks to the four episodes sent for review,...
Adaptations 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. 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.
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. As it stands – thanks to the four episodes sent for review,...
- 2/2/2017
- by Mitchel Broussard
- We Got This Covered
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Syfy's The Expanse is a handsomely designed, tense ten-episode sci-fi drama that's perfect for binge-watching...
Billed as arguably the riskiest project ever produced for Syfy, the first season of The Expanse is a ten-episode mystery adventure based on the much-praised series of novels by James S. A. Corey. Taking its cues from the first book in said series, Leviathan Wakes (the title of the final episode), it's a diamond in the rough that can be enjoyed by both sci-fi fans and those who don’t know their Cylons from their Klingons.
Despite a largely unspectacular opening episode, The Expanse quickly established itself as a promising slice of television with enough going on in its concept and characters to warrant further viewing. And as you may expect given that a second season has already been commissioned, season one displays a steady increase in quality right up to its high-octane finale,...
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Syfy's The Expanse is a handsomely designed, tense ten-episode sci-fi drama that's perfect for binge-watching...
Billed as arguably the riskiest project ever produced for Syfy, the first season of The Expanse is a ten-episode mystery adventure based on the much-praised series of novels by James S. A. Corey. Taking its cues from the first book in said series, Leviathan Wakes (the title of the final episode), it's a diamond in the rough that can be enjoyed by both sci-fi fans and those who don’t know their Cylons from their Klingons.
Despite a largely unspectacular opening episode, The Expanse quickly established itself as a promising slice of television with enough going on in its concept and characters to warrant further viewing. And as you may expect given that a second season has already been commissioned, season one displays a steady increase in quality right up to its high-octane finale,...
- 2/4/2016
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Chad Coleman, who took time away from "The Walking Dead" to guest-star on this week's episode of "Law & Order: Svu," playing a former athlete in a Ray Rice-like situation, has joined the cast of Syfy’s upcoming new space drama "The Expanse," which is based on the bestselling book series by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. He joins Thomas Jane and Steven Strait in the galaxy-spanning story of a hardened detective (played by Jane) and rogue ship captain (Strait) who team up to find a missing girl, and find themselves in an interplanetary conspiracy. Coleman will play a supporting character named Fred Johnson, who's described as a...
- 11/21/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Recently, CBS released the new,official,synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "NCIS" episode 21 of season 11. The episode is entitled, "Alleged," and it sounds like it'll be pretty intriguing as the murder of a Navy officer will be the focus of the NCIS team's latest investigation, and more. In the new,21st episode press release: The NCIS team is going to have to determine if the murder of a Navy officer is linked to a random bar fight or his knowledge of an attack on a fellow female officer. Press release number 2: After a Navy officer is found dead on a rural road, the NCIS team will have to ascertain if the murder was the result of a bar fight or because he knew too much about an attack on a fellow female officer. In the meantime, Dinozzo and McGee are going to begin a juice cleanse to purge their bodies of impurities.
- 4/8/2014
- by Derek
- OnTheFlix
So much has been written about rapper and actor Tupac Shakur since his 1996 shooting death that anyone attempting to cover his life is at a disadvantage when it comes to finding new angles. But because he traversed so many important cultural crossroads—the son of Black Panthers, mother a crack addict in the ’80s, hugely popular hip-hop star, unsolved shooting death—history professor Fred Johnson and When Rap Music Had A Conscience author Tayannah Lee McQuillar take a sensible approach in Tupac Shakur: The Life Of An American Icon, by presenting Shakur’s life and the social and political ...
- 2/4/2010
- avclub.com
Lucy Mangan on the people in the headlines
Prison break
Jane Andrews
You know all those jokes about open prisons? Turns out they're all true. You can just walk out. Even if you're serving the final stretch of a 12-year prison sentence for murder.
Andrews, former personal assistant to the Duchess of York, became a guest of Her Majesty (insert lightly ironical joke here) when she killed her lover Thomas Cressman after he refused to marry her. She went on the run for three days before being arrested by police at a Premier Inn near the prison in Kent. They had been hot on her trail ever since they were called by a taxi driver who had recognised her. It looks like minicabs have just become the fourth emergency service.
Task forced exit
Katie Price
A far more important bid for freedom was made this week of course by a...
Prison break
Jane Andrews
You know all those jokes about open prisons? Turns out they're all true. You can just walk out. Even if you're serving the final stretch of a 12-year prison sentence for murder.
Andrews, former personal assistant to the Duchess of York, became a guest of Her Majesty (insert lightly ironical joke here) when she killed her lover Thomas Cressman after he refused to marry her. She went on the run for three days before being arrested by police at a Premier Inn near the prison in Kent. They had been hot on her trail ever since they were called by a taxi driver who had recognised her. It looks like minicabs have just become the fourth emergency service.
Task forced exit
Katie Price
A far more important bid for freedom was made this week of course by a...
- 11/28/2009
- by Lucy Mangan
- The Guardian - Film News
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