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The Expanse Season One

SCORE: 55

I watch a lot of science fiction television shows for review. I had seen advertisements for The Expanse in some of them. I decided to give The Expanse Season One a shot. There are only ten episodes in The Expanse Season One. The last two episodes are grouped together and combined are longer than one of the other eight episodes. It takes seven hours and seven minutes to watch The Expanse Season One from start to finish. The one bonus feature is deleted scenes.

The Expanse Season One starts out with a bit of a mystery. There is this young lady who goes missing. We see her on this ship early on. We don’t find out what happens to her until near the end of the season. A police officer and the survivors of a freight ship are on converging paths in The Expanse Season One to the same location. I find it interesting how they get to those locations through different means.

The Expanse Season One shows us an interesting science fiction fantasy universe. We have Earth, Mars, and the people in the Belt. The Belt is people who are born and die on space stations. They grow up with less gravity and are usually enslaved to some corporation. The Belters want to be free from their tyranny from Earth and Mars. Earth and Mars have a tenuous relationship and The Expanse Season One puts them on the verge of war.

The issues families will have with The Expanse Season One are blood, gore, violence, lack of attire, enticement to lust, nudity, sex outside of marriage, bad language, promotion of sexual deviancy, attacks on people of faith and more. The OPA is a terrorist organization trying to get the Belters free. The Mormons are building a giant ship to go and colonize a far away planet.

The biggest thing that stuck out to me about The Expanse Season One is we never really know any of these characters. We learn a bit more about their past. We find out what happened to certain characters. Ultimately I never felt like I knew any of them. They all felt like a bit of a mystery to me. Their motivations never made much sense even when other characters were exploring them. The Expanse Season One is an interesting idea for a science fiction television show.
- Paul

Graphics: 40%
Sound: 55%
Replay: 60%
Gameplay: 70%
Family Friendly Factor: 50%

System: Blu-ray
Publisher: Universal
Developer: SyFy
Rating: ‘NR’ for Not Rated