, this past week, and it’s landed at #2 on the top 10 list in the US. But if you’ve binged through it and finished the show, you’ll know that it ends on acliffhanger, one that demands a season 2. But will it get one? This is Netflix we’re talking about, so there are some things to consider.
It feels like Netflix may end up a bit between a rock and a hard place, given the show’s initial performance here, who’s involved, budgets and other considerations. The show is an adaptation of The Three-Body Problem, the famed book by Cixin Liu, but one that is a part of a trilogy, which also includes The Dark Forest and Death’s End. As such, the three pieces, much like the three-body problem itself, are meant to fit together and you can’t really just have one or two without the others. When you commit to season 1 of a show like this, you in theory, should be signed up for three seasons.
This is a very, very important project for Netflix, a service that generally speaking does not commit to all that many high profile, expensive sci-fi projects give that theyso high-risk and expensive. You have Stranger Things, obviously, but Netflix has mostly left sci-fi to Apple TV+. Here, this is animportant project given that A) it’s such an acclaimed sci-fi book and B) Two of its three creators are David Benioff and DB Weiss of Game of Thrones fame. Expectations are high.
It’s a really tough balancing act here. This is a very important show with very high profile talent attached in the form of the Game of Thrones duo, and it really needs three seasons to tell the complete story of the famed trilogy. But reception feels like it’s going to be pretty tepid, and Netflix will have to decide just how committed to it they’re going to be.
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