The new sci-fi series from Alexander Woo and the creators of “Game of Thrones” is previewed at the Séries Mania festival this Friday. We saw it before its release, here's what we thought of it.
The most anticipated series of the month of March, and probably one of the most anticipated of the year, is finally released on Netflix next week. From this Thursday, March 21, subscribers to the streaming platform will be able to discover The 3-Body Problem, an adaptation of Liu Cixin's best-selling hard sci-fi book by Alexander Woo (True Blood), but also and above all by the showrunners of the series Game of Thrones, David Benioff and Daniel “D.B.” Weiss. The event is such that the series is entitled to a preview screening at the Séries Mania festival this Friday, March 15. Linternaute.com was also able to discover it in advance.
In The 3-Body Problem, Netflix subscribers will discover that a disastrous decision taken by a young female scientist, in China marked by the cultural revolution of the 1960s, will completely shake up the world decades later. The laws of nature begin to collapse, a threat then seems to come from the universe, which pushes a group of scientists to combine their forces and their knowledge to save humanity.
When we discover the names in the credits, it is very tempting to compare The Three-Body Problem to Game of Thrones. And some spectators might hope to discover a work of the same caliber, as epic, complex and spectacular. In a sense, they would not be wrong, since we find the touch of David Benioff and D.B. Weiss in The 3-Body Problem: the adaptation of a highly complex novel to stage (Liu Cixin is probably at the Chinese SF (what Georges R.R. Martin would be to American fantasy), enormous ambition and grandiloquence, imposing and spectacular staging and surprising twists and turns. We even find some actors from GOT in the series, like John-Bradley West (Sam in the fantasy series), Liam Cunningham (Sir Davos) or Jonathan Pryce (The High Sparrow).
But conversely, The 3-Body Problem is a pure product of science fiction: cerebral first, emotional second. GOT was fascinating thanks to its gallery of characters, to the political chessboard that played out before our eyes season after season. The 3-body problem is so profound in its messages. The mystery will keep spectators in suspense for a few episodes, before offering a reflection on our relationship to the world, to faith, to death, to love or to our sound of being, to science and especially to other, to offer a mirror of what makes humanity. The question, undoubtedly, therefore lies elsewhere. Comparable to Game of Thrones or not, Netflix is in any case releasing a major series this week, which has everything to become the new SF obsession of the small screen.
David Benioff and D. B. Weiss are back on the small screen with a new science fiction series coming to Netflix on March 21, 2024 at 8:01 a.m. Indeed, the creators of Game of Thrones have teamed up with Alexander Woo for their ultra-ambitious new project. The 3-Body Problem is a sci-fi series adapted from the popular literary saga by Chinese author Liu Cixin.
The novel of the same title, published in 2016 in France, 8 years after having achieved great success in China, constitutes the first part of the trilogy also composed of The Dark Forest and The Immortal Death. The 3-Body Problem series looks at the past, present and future of planet Earth. It's difficult to say more about this program which questions our relationship to science but especially to others. Made up of 8 episodes, this series promises to be a hit when it is released.
The 3-Body Problem is a series that questions our relationship to others over several temporalities. In 1960s China, an astrophysicist makes a discovery that will have irremediable consequences across time and space. The laws of nature are turned upside down, as scientists helplessly watch before uniting to save humanity and the planet.
The 3-Body Problem, an 8-episode series and adaptation of Liu Cixin's trilogy by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss and Alexander Woo, will be available on Netflix on March 21, 2024. To see it and also be able to enjoy the other series and films of the catalog, you must of course subscribe to the streaming platform. Remember that this is paid, the price can vary between €5.99 per month (for a Netflix Essential subscription with advertisements) and €17.99 per month (Netflix Premium subscription).
