The Expanse

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Season 4
Season #: 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 169 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 140 out of 169
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 169
  3. Negative: 15 out of 169
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  1. LaGuapa
    Dec 23, 2019
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm with LSargeant: Sooooo disappointed in this season that I joined this site to vent. Where to start? This season was less about ideas and more about action, like the difference between Ridley Scott's Alien and Cameron's Aliens, except with boring even stupid writing. I guess they thought it was cute that Arasavala was cursing every other sentence. Bobbie became a totally one dimensional good guy. I hate to say it but both of them became boring. In fact, there were a lot of tropes and clichéd writing that I'm too tired to list. Here's one: the Belter teenager who wants to go to college all the sudden is running the engineering department of a spaceship in a life-or-death scenario. How did she get up there, anyway? I missed Drummer being a bad-ass, she just stood around for the most part. The last episodes on the planet were really the worst. All the sudden there are neurotoxic slugs that will kill you in 20 seconds falling from the walls, so that they have to walk around covered up or stay under tents. Then all of the sudden in the last episode the slugs are gone, everyone walking around bareheaded like nothing ever happened. Did I miss something? Oh and everyone's going blind from protomolecule that's infecting the eyes, everyone except Holden. So the world's worst doctor does a blood test and can't figure it out. Why? She doesn't do the most basic medical history. Doesn't this show have consultants? They can get the coreolus effect but now they cant do a medical exam? Somehow she can make his chemo drugs--enough for everyone, even though she's blind--and hallelujah! they recover their sight...the very next day! Then there was the scene with Holden outside and the tsunami roaring in...whatever, he doesn't die, you know he won't. I was so irritated by the last episode that I don't even know how it finished. It was too painful to watch. Just when I was feeling a little warm towards Jeff Bezos for saving my show, his team turns it into schlock. FU (again) Jeff Bezos.… Expand
  2. BossABrisch
    Jul 9, 2020
    0
    I wanted to come here and rate every season before Amazon picked it up. Seasons 1 2 and 3 were amazing. Flawless. Perfect balance of action, drama, storyline build up, and character development. Season 4 was meh. Same actors but felt like a different show...not the expanse that I loved.
  3. Bringo69
    Dec 30, 2019
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I just want to second everything Isargent has said their review here, season 4 is a massive letdown for this series. How can the f**** up such an amazing series i don’t understand. The whole vibe and feeling of what made the first 3 seasons amazing is home and what’s left is a mediocre and boring narrative.… Expand
  4. lsargent
    Dec 22, 2019
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I was really surprised at the idiocy of this season and then surprised again when I checked the reviews which was why I had to open an account and write the first ever on-line review in my 40 years of life. I gave it 2 stars due to the fact the same production values were there and the actors did the best they could with the content they were given, but the plot and logic are completely gone in this season. In past seasons, there was the odd logic gap which every science fiction show eventually has and us, as viewers just looking to be entertained for 10 hours, don't often mind.
    However in Season 4, NOTHING MAKES ANY SENSE!
    -Bobbie learns in previous seasons that Mars isn't any better than anyone else and constantly refuses orders, but now she's once again 100% loyal to Mars no matter what happens.
    - Avasarala let the odd f-bomb drop in previous seasons which made the viewer sit up and notice where as in this season, she's turned into a cursing sailor. She was a pivotal, intelligent character in previous seasons who saved Earth despite great personal risk and she has trouble in an election? The election was so tedious and complete waste of time.
    - There is no reasoning given to why there is a blockade at the gate, why they let colony ships just stack up in front of it, why they let the belter station remain in the ring area.
    - Makes no sense why Mars would be decommissioning their warships? As the most "advanced" faction, and after protomolecule and belter alliances and UN shadow governments, AND 1300 new worlds to explore, you would think there would be a massive need more more warships and science ships.
    - After 3 seasons of watching the factions learn somewhat to work together, why isn't there a permanent "UN-Style" location where governments of the UN, OPA, and Mars can communicate and get along? It's like each still operates in a vacuum and nobody knows what the other is doing. You would just think that for all factions, there would be a mutually beneficial great need to cooperate and looking for conflict wouldn't be high on anyone's radar.
    - Amos does nothing in this season, but get shot and beat up and makes him out to be a total incompetent idiot.
    - Naomi is supposed to be the smart one, but she throws logic aside and puts everyone at risk when it's obvious her body can't handle the planet's gravity.
    - The belters and scientists hate living with each other, but on an entire planet, they choose to live in the exact same area...
    - Holden and his ship are sent directly from UN Government, but is treated with zero respect on the planet to the point they are just actively trying to kill him for no particular reason... do they think there would be no consequences?
    - Alex was inconsequential the entire season except you heard him sometimes say "hoss"
    - Holden has cancer and takes anti-cancer drugs on a regular basis and somehow they have trouble figuring out what makes him immune to blindness.
    - The whole season is basically the show's "heros" stuck on a planet for no good reason, helping a few settlers which are (in the scheme of the show) not important. After 1300 new words are available, this is best course of action? Mediation 101?
    - One thing I also found puzzling with this show is the ship design... other shows... Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar -- they all had ships which had sleek, inventive designs which helps develop a fondness for these vessels along with.... merchandising? Desktop wallpapers? Posters? But ALL SHIPS on this show look exactly the same! They are basically different profiles of tin cans. Some thinner and longer... some longer and thicker... and the biggest ship made by the belters... looks exactly like a tin can. Can you pick out a Mars ship and what makes it different than a UN ship? There's a huge opportunity missed here with ship design... I've played video games in the past with much better ideas. Given this dumb decision, every space battle looks very similar and you can't make out who's who.
    - And as a broader critique of this whole idea (haven't read the books, but I will now), in the future there is ZERO possible chance that the United States/China/Russia or any other powerful nation would ever agree to be ruled by the United Nations. (part of suspension of disbelief)    … Expand

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91

Universal acclaim - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Salon
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    Dec 13, 2019
    90
    Complicated as this set-up might read, the sheer gorgeousness of “The Expense” goes quite a distance toward shoring up a person’s commitment to it, as do the performances. ... A heavily serialized show like this one will never be easily accessible to newcomers who drop into mid-voyage. Ergo, to say that this previous description provides all you need to know to get up to speed is not quite accurate. But it does help that these new episodes reconfigure the grid a bit and simplify the plot.
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  2. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Steve Greene
    Dec 13, 2019
    91
    Continuing the tradition of thoughtfully outlining a system-wide conflict while following through a portal to countless untold problems, “The Expanse” is an evolving text that an increased sense of scale has only made richer.
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  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Zack Handlen
    Dec 9, 2019
    91
    Minor misgivings aside, it’s a relief to have a new season of The Expanse to get lost in. The show is still one of the best science fiction series out there, and it appears to have made the move to streaming with minimal compromises.
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