Tag: Expanse

14 JUL

David Strathairn Joins The Expanse in 'Significant' Season 3 Role

Alphas alum David Strathairn has closed a deal to join Season 3 of Syfy’s The Expanse, Alcon Television Group announced on Friday. The Academy Award-nominated actor will play “a substantial character with a significant arc,” the production house revealed. No further details were disclosed. Oscar-nominated for his role in 2005’s Good Night, and Good Luck, […]

05 MAR

Decrypted: The Expanse: Planet-busters and Epstein drives

Enlarge / Chad Coleman as Fred Johnson (L), Steven Strait as James Holden (R) (credit: Rafy/Syfy) It sure was a busy week on The Expanse. For one thing, we learned the story of Solomon Epstein, this universe’s equivalent of Zephram Cochrane. The needs of the story are always going to trump scientific accuracy, and the […]

03 MAR

Exploring The Expanse: Paradigm Shift feels designed to fill up space

The Expanse is a television show based on the novels by James S.A. Corey. Every week, I’ll be taking a look at one moment in each episode of the show’s second season, and what it means for the larger story. Spoilers ahead for the sixth episode of season 2, “Paradigm Shift.” Last week’s episode of […]

22 FEB

We’ve got an exclusive sneak peek at this week’s episode of The Expanse

Enlarge / Detective Joe Miller and the nuke he has to babysit. The clip is taken from the episode that airs on Wednesday evening on Syfy, so consider this a warning about mild spoilers. Here at Ars we unapologetically love science fiction. Books, movies, comics—all of it. In fact, it needn’t even be very good […]

02 FEB

The Expanse is the badass epic space opera you need right now

Enlarge / Watch out for explosions when you’re in the outer system. (credit: Syfy) This story contains spoilers for season 1 of The Expanse. There are two kinds of realism in science fiction: scientific accuracy (which is always debatable when it comes to space travel), and social insight. If you’re lucky, you’ll get one. And […]