Amazon’s gritty and ambitious space-set drama has slowly become one of TV’s most compelling genre offerings and one that deserves a bigger audience
Everyone wants to know which show will be the next Game of Thrones. Sci-fi drama The Expanse, originally of the SyFy channel and now of Amazon (its fifth season dropped last week), is not that. But, on first glance, you’d be forgiven for thinking so.
Like Game of Thrones, the show is based on a book series that’s really about politics and power. But unlike Game of Thrones, the authors, writing under the pen-name James SA Corey, have a plan for the story they’re telling, with a rough end date. They’re on the last book, set to be published next year.