The Expanse 

A police detective in the asteroid belt, the first officer of an interplanetary ice freighter and an earth-bound United Nations executive slowly discover a vast conspiracy that threatens the Earth's rebellious colony on the asteroid belt.

Creators:

Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby

Stars:

Steven Strait, Cas Anvar, Dominique Tipper

2 wins & 7 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Steven Strait	...	Jim Holden / ... 36 episodes, 2015-2018
Cas Anvar	...	Alex Kamal 36 episodes, 2015-2018
Dominique Tipper	...	Naomi Nagata 36 episodes, 2015-2018
Wes Chatham	...	Amos Burton 36 episodes, 2015-2018
Shohreh Aghdashloo	...	Chrisjen Avasarala 27 episodes, 2015-2018
Shawn Doyle	...	Sadavir Errinwright 24 episodes, 2015-2018
Florence Faivre	...	Julie Mao 23 episodes, 2015-2017
Frankie Adams	...	Roberta 'Bobbie' W. Draper / ... 17 episodes, 2017-2018
Chad L. Coleman	...	Col. Frederick Lucius Johnson / ... 16 episodes, 2015-2018
Thomas Jane	...	Joe Miller 15 episodes, 2015-2017

Storyline

Two hundred years in the future, in a fully colonized solar system, police detective Josephus Miller (Thomas Jane), who was born in the asteroid belt, is given the assignment to find a missing young woman; Julie Mao (Florence Faivre). Meanwhile, James Holden (Steven Strait), the first officer of an ice freighter, is witness to an unprovoked attack upon the ship, by craft believed to be from Mars (MCRN Federation). As news of the attack spreads throughout the system, the incident's flow-on threatens to destabilize already tenuous relations between Earth, Mars and The Belt. Far away from the struggles in deep space, on Earth, Chrisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo), a powerful United Nations executive and diplomat, works to prevent war between Earth and Mars by any means. Soon, the 3 find out the missing woman and the ice freighter's fate are part of a vast covert conspiracy which threatens all humanity.

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Plot Keywords:

asteroid belt | conspiracy | space | space opera | corruption | 

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Taglines:

We've gone too far

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Genres:

Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 November 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

Пространство

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Alcon Entertainment, Sean Daniel Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD

Did You Know?

Trivia

Chrisjen Avasarala doesn't appear until the second book in the series, she has been added earlier to be able to portray the politics of the Expanse universe more deeply as the politics were explained by internal monologue in the book, a technique TV struggles to utilize.

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Connections

Referenced in Jeopardy!: Episode #33.75 (2016)

User Reviews

Promising series sticking largely to the book

To start with, I have read the first three books of the Expanse series by James Corey, and I am a huge fan. I got to the books, after George RR Martin's recommendation.

Moving to the series, I expected another cheesy show Syfy has been known for lately, and dreaded that they are doing a TV Series for one of the best sci-fi books I have read in some time. I did not even watch the trailers, somehow curiosity got me to watch the pilot episode. I was pleasantly surprised by the production quality. Syfy is clearly putting a lot of resources (and a big bet), that the series will be the winning horse. The actors so far are sticking to the characters James Corey sketched out, but some of the main characters personality is yet missing (Naomi comes to mind the first).

The actors are too early to comment, but Holden (Steven Strait) seems promising, a little younger than what Corey sketched. Detective Miller is a very crucial character, and Corey had given him a fantastic gray, sarcastic humor (hope Thomas Jane can pull it off). But thats the beauty of a series based on a brilliant book, the story-line and the universe the author has built is so good, that it will be able to mask some mediocre actors too. Unlike the TV shows at present who have a rudimentary story line but rely more on script and acting to pull it off.

The pilot episode largely sticks to book (a huge relief), in fact the producers have even stuck to what sort of background music is playing. I really hope this show receives the positive feedback, the sci-fi fans need it, sci-fi is so much more than comic books.

I do hope viewers appreciate the intricacies of the story line, the politics between Earth, Mars, and the Belter region. The relatively more accurate space physics. The attention to smaller details (on why just having a normal Earth pressure, is a grievous torture for someone who has been born on null or lower gravity etc). The changes in lingo between various regions, there is a lot of Belter lingo in the dialogues etc.

In the end Sci-fi fans, you have to watch this to support the genre. This is actual old school Sci-fi.