I've only seen the first episode so far, but Three-Body (the Chinese series) might be the ticket for my next hard-SF view.
However, Liu Cixin, author of the original books, is now strongly in disfavour for endorsing China's human rights abuses against the Uighur people. Those crimes are also why many in #SFF oppose this year's WorldCon being held in Chengdu - though others think this hypocritical because the US engages in rights abuses, too.
Nothing is ever simple with humans involved. #CoSoTV
Where is this streaming?
@mcfate Only on Rakuten Viki at the moment. Sorry, I have such a hodgepodge of media access from where I live - months if not years late on some movies and TV shows, but also a little speedier on others - so I'm not sure if folks in North America can access it, too.
It appears to be coming to Netflix, they offered to let me set a reminder for it.
@mcfate Is that this series, or the Western version that they'd been planning since 2020 - David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Alexander Woo - before the controversy around Liu Cixin got a handful of senators to write Netflix asking the service to reconsider going forward on the project? (Such a mess!)
I'm not sure how many episodes are free, but clearly not all thirty.
I signed up for a basic subscription, and set up the iPad app to keep watching, thanks!
@mcfate Hey, I'm thrilled to have a TV buddy, so thank *you*. Have you read the books? I know Chinese drama can have a different structural and tonal feel than we Westerners are often used to, so I'm interested to see a homegrown adaptation of the work. Let me know what you think as you go through the episodes, too!
@MLClark
Two out of three. (Or four, if you count the one Liu DIDN'T write.)
"The Dark Forest" completely changed my thinking about the wisdom of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.