After 15 minutes of the first episode, I already knew that I was hooked and had to follow this story to the end. We start the adventure with the series with a scene of a public lynching during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The tension builds like bad. There are crazy crowds, a lot of party slogans and communist newspeak. , slandering Einstein’s theories, violence and tears. Then we jump into the future to a confused scientist (his name is Saul) at his desk, who is worried that science has suddenly gone crazy. It has gone crazy because no results of research conducted with particle accelerators around the world have been found. make little sense lately. This is more or less what two friends Jin and Auggie are talking about in a pub over a beer. Suddenly, one of them begins to see a mysterious countdown before her eyes. Then it gets even more dense, because the general plan of events is broadly outlined.
Will the series “The Three-Body Problem” be bought by viewers who have not read the book?
To put it very simply, we can say that the latest series “The Three-Body Problem” is about a group of scientists who sweat over calculations and technologies on which the fate of all humanity depends. They discuss, analyze and consider various scientific theories, and sometimes they meet for a drink or talk to sad gentlemen from a very mysterious intelligence agency. And they are investigating a mysterious wave of suicides among the most popular physicists in the world. In addition, at the beginning we get flashbacks to communist China, labor camps and secret research centers where everyone really speaks Chinese. It may seem that these are three completely unrelated threads, and moreover difficult to portray on screen. And yet the creators managed to attract my attention from the very beginning.
At the level of introduction to the world presented, David Benioff and DB Weiss, the showrunners of the famous “”, did a good job on “The Three-Body Problem”. Not only was I hooked from the very beginning, but I had no problem following the threads introduced one by one. Step by step, the narrative unfolds new puzzle pieces for the viewer, which fit together nicely. The fact is that you have to watch and listen carefully to be able to connect certain facts, but it doesn’t give you a headache. It comes with the same effort as in the case of any other thoroughbred thriller or even crime story. It turns out that various elements of the so-called background do not appear there by accident, they are very important and indicate connections that will become clear to the viewer over time.
Basically, I read the entire season in one day because I really wanted, or even needed, to know what would happen next. I appreciate that each episode sticks to the formula of outlining the problem, brings important events to a culmination, closes the loop and releases the tension. But it also leaves a hook encouraging you to read the continuation of this story, even if it has become a bit quieter.
I would like to very, very much appreciate the series’ Sam from “Game of Thrones”: John Bradley as Jack Rooney is completely different than what can be expected from him and he is wonderful in this version. However, Liam Cunningham is delightful and, as I suspect, he wouldn’t even have to appear on screen to build suspense and prove that he is the world’s greatest tough guy and bouncer. Jonathan Pryce (the series’ High Sparrow) is so disturbingly self-confident, and Benedict Wong, known as Wong from “Doctor Strange”, was very good as the unconventional “detective”. Overall, the cast here is very well chosen and there is nothing to complain about.
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“The Three-Body Problem” is a series for a solid 4+
Despite the general approval and satisfaction, I have my “but” here: At the beginning, some characters were not very well outlined. Such Saul (Jovan Adepo) first seems to be an insignificant straggler who has problems with emotional maturity, and only then it turns out that he has an important role to play in this story, so it was worth paying a little more attention to him. He is obscured by other, extremely charismatic people in the drama.
I must point out that although the creators apparently stuck to the book politely, this production almost drips with their trademarks. I was extremely amused that already in the second episode there were elements so well associated with the hit series, such as: full-scale nudity and the presentation of people of all sexes in their full natural beauty, very dark shots inside castles and all kinds of fortresses (let us recall here, for example, the text about Battle of Winterfell”), as well as very sophisticated ways of killing various individuals. In fact, the only thing missing here are the biblical scenes of intercourse between passionate lovers, but no one definitely needs to sell this production with sex, because there is a lot going on here anyway. Fellow editor Magdalena Walma rightly noticed that it is a bit like “Bloody Wedding” in modern times.
I have the impression that the season could even be divided into two parts, because somewhere around the middle there is a kind of genre transition. We start with mysterious events and a strange puzzle, the solution of which in the present requires understanding what happened in the past. From this mode of criminal action cinema with sci-fi elements, around the fifth episode we move into a kind of disaster cinema with elements of moral anxiety, personal dilemmas of individual people in the drama, as well as a romantic thread of unrequited love. We also get a lot of very impressive scenes of explosions and general destruction. It’s very interesting, but the ending loses the energy and tension that was so effectively built in the first half of the season.
After the consultation, I found out that it was more a matter of the source material, because the scriptwriters stuck faithfully to Cixin Liu’s book, and even to spice up the action, they even used a few threads from the next, very fast-paced volume of the trilogy “Remembrance of Earth’s Past” to spice up the action. It’s actually appreciated, and I really hope there will be a second season. The first one generally gives the impression – although it is surprising and intriguing in itself – as if it was an introduction to something much thicker and juicier. This way, I already know that I won’t be able to survive without reading the entire book series until the potential premiere. This is how television promotes reading.
Source: Gazeta
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