User Reviews

Let's talk about the great things first. The crew of the Roci is tired and it showed. Holden looks awful. The war is taking its toll. Peaches is doing her things and I like her, she knows when to do the right thing. Amos is true to his character and he doesn't get enough screen time. Avasarala is always on target and commands the scene and Bobbie is awesome, we need much more of her.

I'm really eager to see what Drummer is up to. Like Avasarala, she commands the scene and does it well. Love her.

Now, for the concerns: The Naomi is going to cry drinking game continues unabated. I couldn't care less about her feelings at this point. Fast forward.

The dismal portrayal of Filip continues its downward spiral. His story is slowing down the progression of the season a LOT.

Marco will break into "Purple Rain" at any moment, he's right on target. I'm surprised he's not twirling a handlebar mustache while chewing the scenery. The new blonde woman that isn't afraid of Marco, yeah, whatever.

I can't believe there's only four episodes left in the season. They need to get moving and fast. The pacing is way, way off.

... it's got too much talking, ... it's too slow.

... character X is boring.

... character Y got too much screen time.

... needed more explosions.

... it's not as good as season 2.

... and so on.

But the reality is that this is faithful in all the right ways to the books, paced well and focusing on the things I care about; characters. It's all there, and like all seasons before it it is building towards something.

Patience; rewards are coming...

My only query about this season so far is how are they going to use the story of the people on Planet #673 (or whatever it is) in Ring #-- and complete it within the next 4 episodes? It just doesn't seem possible at all.

The space warfare scenes in this show are thrilling. Episodes like this is what makes The Expanse one of the greatest sci-fi space opera show out there. I hope they find a way to continue telling this story after this season. Great entertainment.

An overall decent episode, closer to the spirit of Season 1, these sort of episodes is what made expanse great. The action is here, a focus on interesting characters and a minimum amount of Naomi tears... Let's hope the rest of the season is like this....

This transitional episode takes us to each entity and puts us where they are in the overall plot. This presents a problem for the last season, because a series like this eventually short changes many involved. I will throw my hopes to the writers to figure everything out.

This episode had all of the elements of what makes The Expanse a great series. Great writing, tension, pace, a range of plot threads balanced perfectly, and it brought the story forward hugely, unlike most of season 5! It was so good to see Bobby back as a central part of the narrative too. A fantastic character criminally underused in the previous season. More episodes like this please.

One of the finest episodes of this series. Skillful handling of characters by writers and actors as well, the story was definitively enthralling, we saw hitting dialogues and the action scene was superb. Every section of production made a fine job.

I don't understand why so many people refuse to enjoy this piece of work. It has its flaws, there are some bad patches in it, but this episode shows that it's still an excellent character-driven sci-fi drama. Let's hope for an appropriate ending - not an easy target.

Still too much crying and being sad or angry (mostly pointless). Kid acting was terrible (And whats that plot anw?). Naomi-Filip fight their best to be te most annoying character out there.

Sigh.

Will see next.

Action sequences were phenomenal in this episode. Realistic portrayal of space based combat and physics is so hard to pull off, and we mostly get to settle for giant ships shooting light rays at each other then exploding, or by seeing the impact of the fight from inside the bridge (e.g. Star trek). Absolutely not so with The Expanse. On top of that the characters who have been developed over 5 seasons are still written so well, motivations make sense, and it is just heart-warming to see Amos and Peaches relationship develop.

Chrisjen, Bobby, Amos, as usual just a pleasure to watch.

Watching this series from start and still believe is one of the best sci-fi out there, but i feel is dragging a lot the last 2 seasons , why still inaro? When you have alien worlds and artifacts to explore, pls make it on point again, pls pls, who cares about Philip talking 2 times on camera about his friend and wastes time... and inaro blah blah , get to action and mystery and be a bit more fast be on point like the first seasons.

And this episode is another prove. It is not perfect with the overly cheesy moments and inaros Jr doing puppy eyes. But nothing else out there comes even close to the quality of story and presentation.

Hope they keep the standard at this level until the end of the season.

Greetings from Lithuania.

"Azure Dragon", 2nd episode of season 6 was well made and well-paced episode. Action scene was done good. I liked how fast paced this episode was, moved a story forward. With only 4 episodes left, I'm involved into how it will end. But on the other hand, I feel that only 4 episodes won't tell a big story here - most likely it will only wrap up "the villain" quest so to speak.

Nevertheless, first two episodes of season 6 was an improvement over lackluster season 5 in my opinion. This is one is moving way faster while staying mostly involving and entertaining. Will definitely watch remaining episodes.

After the intrigue, mystery & double tales of earlier seasons, ep 6/2 just seemed too neat. I hope to be red herringed, but it has all the signs & momentum of the writers assembling the parameters for a final showdown, probably ep 6/5 so there can be a wind-down final episode.

Still a visual treat, respectful of physics, but it seems more & more like StarTrek discovery wth Naomi=Burnham , with all the angst and sideplots.

But let's hope for a satisfying crisis resolution that's got some surprises in store. Too much to ask?

Pretty disappointed.

Not sure what I was expecting but this definitely was not it.

Marcos, Filip, Naomi...... Just awful. Waste of screen time.

BTW, When did 'acting' become only either being indignant/angry or looking sad? Seems the only thing the main cast (except Peaches and Amos) can manage.

Make a spin off with Peaches and Amos and forget the rest.

Also, only four episodes left to wrap things up? Can't see any decent closure coming in the roughly 160 minutes they have left, as I expect at least 20 minutes each of Naomi being sad, Marcos being awful and Filip being pointless.

Expecting a sad and unfulfilling end to what I think started as an interesting and different show. Such potential, wasted.

This is probably the lowest ranking episode of The Expanse for me. A 7/10 is the lowest out of 62 episodes? Yes, that is how great this show is. The reason for this "disastrous" score is what I mention in the headline.

This show have no filler episodes, no episodes of transports or side quests, which is one of the many reasons this show is so great. But this actually felt like one. They are on a mission to get a thing to rely information to move the plot forward, but it the feeling I got lacked suspense and that normal thriller creepy feel this show always have was almost gone. All the rest is there, the acting, the music, everything is still amazing except this felt like an episode that could have been 5min - everything that happen in this episode could have easily been summarised in a few minutes.

My main objection with both the last season and this season is however Marco and his crew. None of them feel smart, menacing, nor acted to perfection as all other fractions and people. And the son, Filip, is acted by someone that cannot act at all.

This is still the best scify show of all time, and this was still a great episode, but I would feel weird if I also did not point out the negatives. I hope this was the last episode of this kind and that we move on. The show is almost at an end, time to get to it.

The Expanse went from awesome to overacting clean "actors" and children along with 90's special effects. The unique cultures of the solar system have slowly dissipated ro a point where it's now just fake tattoos and american accents in all but the rarest occasions.

It's bad.

This season was cut down to just six episodes. Hey, come on, it's every rich human's civil right to have a personal space program and cut corners in their business to "win" more money for their dream. But the way even that tiny space is utilized is nothing short of appalling. Out of every ~47 minutes, we get 1-2 minutes of "Previously on" and THREE minutes of end titles. Okay, guess we need to list every person who brought burgers to the set... and his family. But then another blow - a HUGE segment on events on "Laconia" that nobody cares about. It's the last season of this show, so why waste screen time on that sidequell? As a result the whole Inaros saga is squeezed into a rushed jog. Quick, quick, quick! Squeeze in as much as you can into each episode. Everything everyone worked so hard for five seasons is forgotten and now it's just "effective management". It's become a bad tradition of modern TV shows to screw up the last season. Lost, Game of Thrones, now Expanse.