Network: Syfy, Amazon Prime.
Episodes: 62 (hour).
Seasons: Six.
TV show dates: December 14, 2015 — January 14, 2022.
Series status: Ended.
Performers include: Thomas Jane, Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Dominique Tipper, Cas Anvar, Wes Chatham, Florence Faivre, Paulo Constanzo, Chad L. Coleman, and Jared Harris.
TV show description:
Based on the James S. A. Corey book series, this science fiction mystery series is set centuries in the future. Earth’s population has ballooned to over 30 billion, and the planet is now under UN control.
Humans have colonized Mars and the Asteroid Belt. Mars is an independent power. The Asteroid Belt is exploited for resources.
Earth, Mars, and the Belt are edging towards war. When champion light spacecraft pilot Julie Mao (Florence Faivre) goes missing, the search for her exposes an incredible conspiracy.
Born to one of Earth’s wealthiest families, Mao fell out with her father and turned her back on him and his riches. After joining The Far Horizons Foundation, she campaigned for Belters’ rights, until her disappearance.
Jaded and defiant, Detective Joe Miller (Thomas Jane), was born and raised on Ceres Station. Until he straightened up his act, the orphaned Miller was headed toward a life of crime. By working for Star Helix, he is working for the oppressor — Earth.
Montana native Jim Holden (Steven Strait) is the only child of a genetic group made up of eight parents. Holden joined the UN Navy to avoid joining his family’s lost cause — preserving the last bit of undeveloped land in Montana.
Before being court-martialed and dishonorably discharged, Holden rose to the rank of First Lieutenant. Now serving as 2nd Officer of Pur’n’Kleen’s Canterbury ice hauler, he enjoys the freedom of his position.
UN politician, Chrisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo), is the daughter of a longstanding political dynasty. Her father was assassinated by Martian separatists, and her son died while serving as a Marine. Avasarala is beyond devoted to defending Earth.
Naomi Nagata (Dominique Tipper) grew up a poor Belter. A self-made and educated woman, Nagata is secretive about her past.
Alex Kamal (Cas Anvar) pilots the Canterbury, which supplies water to the Belters. He speaks with a Texas twang common to the residents of the Mars Mariner Valley. After serving in the Martian Congressional Republic Navy, he went to work for Pur’n’Kleen, so he could travel the solar system.
The Canterbury’s mechanic, Amos Burton (Wes Chatham), is an Earther. Like his friend Nagata, Burton keeps his past private.
Medical Technician Shed Garvey (Paulo Constanzo), is the closest thing the crew of the Canterbury has to a doctor. He is also their drug dealer.
Tycho Station’s Chief of Operations is Fred Johnson (Chad L. Coleman). Retired from the UN Marines as a Colonel, Johnson was a part of an infamously brutal military action.
Anderson Dawes (Jared Harris) saved the disgraced Johnson’s life and enlisted him to work for the Belters’ cause.
As Ceres Liaison to the Outer Planets Alliance, Dawes rallies laborers and less seemly factions, to work against the corporations exploiting the Asteroid Belt and its settlers.
Series Finale:
Episode #62 — Babylon’s Ashes
Inners and Belters fight side by side with the crew of the Rocinante in a last, massive, desperate battle with Marco and his Free Navy, with the fate of the Solar System, the Ring Gates, and of all humanity hanging in the balance.
First aired: January 14, 2022.
What do you think? Do you like The Expanse TV show? Should it have ended or been renewed for a seventh season?
Superb SyFy series. Hope it has a long run. No disappointments so far.
yes….. please renew. love it!
This is a phenomenal, well-produced show. The tech as portrayed 200 years from now could be very accurate, and mankind’s inexhaustible ability to fight, cheat, and one-up each other is skillfully woven in.
I just binged the first two seasons. I’m not a ST junkie, but I do like syfy. This show is a bit over the top because they crew never gets a break, but it still manages to surprise me. The “bad guy” at the end of season two was super creepy. I watch a ton of horrid B syfy and horror flicks, so that elevates my opinion even higher.
This is a very well thought out sci-fi show. Watching it is like playing a game of chess, you’re always trying to figure out several possibilities ahead of what you are seeing. The writing and acting are really convincing which makes it easy to relate with what happens. Exciting stuff that would be a loss if it were canceled.
I really like this show, after they cancelled Dominion II was an unhappy camper, I hope that it is renewed. It is the only hard science fiction
show on TV. As an example; the space suits are an improved wet-suit design with the helmet being the only pressurized volume. I first red about this tec. in analog in the the 60’s
Yes, definitely renew. It’s a wonderful show, great great great!!
LOVE IT! Hope they renew it, and cause there really isn’t any other Sci-Fi series that go out to space at the moment. So sad hopefully more to come in the years, will defo take time to read the books!!
FANTASTIC scifi show!,todays high budget show is putting out great episodes.
awesome cast,great back round sets,great CGI,great story line!waiting on season 2 to finish so i can order the books (SO NO SPOILERS)lol,like D.Cooper says best show since BSG and Star trek!
keep em coming!
Yet the ratings are WORSE than last season and a lot more money is being spent on it. Go figure. It will probably be renewed, but what happens if the ratings for season three are down around a 0.10? Colony has better ratings and Colony is also down from its first season.
KilljoysColony is just a rehash of the old series “V” only worse. They should put all that money into Dark Matters, The Expanse and
The Expanse is a very clever and wonderful story. I’m sorry that DHarvell felt so compelled to complain as much as he(?) did about this show, especially after only 3 episodes! I watched the whole first season and I’m in the middle of the fifth book of the series this is based upon – and I love both. The story is actually quite intricate and it comes together in an interesting and lovely/shocking fashion. We actually don’t see the climax of book one by the end of season one, and it’s amazing. There is a reason for the detective and… Read more »
After a few weeks to really digest the show, I still hate it, but I now know WHY I hate it. All of the things I have said, before, still holds true – the writing leaves a lot to be desired and the main storylines get swallowed by the writers’ attempts to make the universe as vast as they can. But the thing that bothers me the most about The Expanse is the fact that it is so dumbed down. Look at the characters and compare them to every single science fiction cliché that has ever been introduced. The jaded,… Read more »
Fastistic!!!! Best new serious sci fi show since Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek.
Fantastic!!!!!!!!!! Best new sci fi since Battlestar Galactica or Star Trek.
Freaking… boring. Is there even a plot to this crap heap of a show?
It is boring and I agree with you. I prefer Dark Matter and I wish they would bring back Dominion and I will be happy.
I love Dark Matter. Can’t wait for the new season to start.
Seems pretty inventive 20 mins in!
How did you feel by the end?
I tell you… three shows in, I feel pretty robbed. I’ve been looking forward to this show since they started advertising it, over the summer. So far, after three episodes, there is but a ghost of a plot (the type of ghost where just as you think you see one, it disappears). The characters are just thrown at us without much character development. This creates a vacuum where one should care about the characters. Because the writers of the show don’t bother to spend time on character development, I feel I have no reason to relate to them. Spending time… Read more »