3 Body Problem on Netflix

Turn it off, fool.

Episode 5 is a 100/100 masterpiece.

The first five minutes were so disturbing to me I had to turn it off. Maybe I’ll try it again later.

That first scene is violent but very important in understanding why she did what she did.

The scenes set in China are great and that's about it.

Well, they did give it a good review in the NYT today.

[quote] Anyone else watching?

Someone else is watching because it’s being discussed in the below-linked thread.

Thanks R7 even though it's not a long thread.

Fucking brilliant. I've read the 1st book, and about 2/3rds of the storyline is directly from the book's plot. Elements that the writers added I think really helped to focus the story (the book is great but at points gets extremely deep into the weeds of the physics/cosmology elements.)

And the opening is pretty close to the historical facts - China lost it's fucking mind during the Cultural Revolution. 15 year olds were charged with purging anybody with an education from public life for "non-revolutionary thought", which also mirrors the civilization development in the headset narratives.

That ship scene was something else.

Will it get a season 2?

Will it get a season 3?

Book 2 jumps 400 years later to the arrival, so I imagine they'll want to take a whack at that.

Don't know how the viewing numbers have been yet, though.

Just finished episode 5. Love, LOVE this show.

I think it will become a slow burning big hit for Netflix

Episode 5 really was the best.

I couldn't watch the beginning. Years ago, I had a grad class about China so I knew the history of what was happening, and it tore my heart out to see it. If you don't know anything about the Cultural Revolution in China, it's definitely worth reading about. The way anti-intellectualism is proceeding here in the U.S., it will be good to know some history of it.

Maybe I'll give this show a try later.

Communism kills. We know.

EP5 was fantastic. Had to go to bed but can't wait to start watching the last episodes.

There are some very disturbing parallels between contemporary American society and Mao's Cultural Revolution in China with regard to academics and "intellectuals."

There are parallels between the Cultural Revolution and cancel culture on campuses. Not allowing freedom of speech for anyone who doesn’t share the hive mind opinion on racism, gender etc. for example. The right of course has its own crusades. Fortunately, there is enough commitment to individual rights in the U S to avoid anything similiar to China. I’d be more worried about the left though. They control “elite” colleges and are better at brainwashing students.

Just finished this. Like r18, I saved the last 3 episodes and binged them this afternoon. Wonderful first season, ending on a provocative note.

Looking forward to season 2, if Netflix allows.

I'm in the middle of episode 6. I'm still really enjoying it. It is interesting on several levels and is quiet complex, which is what scifi should be.

Can someone give a quick summary about what’s it about?

Sure, R23, a Chinese woman sends a message into space then we all die.

R23, you see there are these three bodies and they have a problem. Hilarity ensues.

R24 😳

[quote]Ye Wenjie is an astrophysicist who sees her father beaten to death during a struggle session in the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She is conscripted by the military because of her scientific background and is sent to a secret military base in a remote region. Her fateful decision at the base echoes across space and time to a group of scientists in the present day, forcing them to face humanity's greatest threat.

It is a fairly faithful version of the first book in the trilogy, with lots more caucasians.

I think the story jumps the shark at Episode 4. No spoilers, rather I can say it's been flirting with kitschy tropes so far but Episode 4 destroys all verisimilitude and it becomes fully pulpy B-movie alien mishmosh. Not even fun.

And I thought episodes 4 and 5 were best.

No accounting for taste.

Also, Eiza Gonzalez's plastic surgery.

I loved the show R27 even if it had been all in Chinese. As a matter of fact it may have worked better for me in subtitles since all actors these days mumble and whisper and you need subtitles anyway. SMH

[quote] Communism kills. We know.

Almost as much as capitalism!

Communism creates nothing, R33.

^^but mass death, gulags and entire countries being prisons.

Just finished watching this -- although the middle episodes were a bit bogged down and I could have lived without the whole "unrequited love" bullshit.

Looking forward to Season 2, but in the meantime, I think I'll give the Chinese version a whirl. Thirty episodes! That one might take awhile.

r36- Holy cannoli- it's on Peacock!