![]() Based on the episodes I previewed, Amazon will definitely deliver. ![]() The new season shows the effect of bigger budgets – for example, we finally get a good look at the Mars settlement – but The Expanse remains writing- and character-driven to its core.īecause the first three seasons paid off most of the initial character arcs and resolved some of the show’s key friction points, the new series has to rebuild some of that from the ground up. That would be Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who personally intervened to bring the show, produced by Alcon Entertainment and Hivemind, to Amazon’s streaming video service following a #SaveTheExpanse campaign mounted online. The Expanse did make one fan, however, and he turned out to be an important one. The Expanse begins a new chapter with the crew of the Rocinante on a mission to explore worlds beyond the Ring Gate, the first of which is Ilus. Despite creating a show more gripping than anything the genre has seen since the heyday of the mid-aughts Battlestar Galactica reboot, The Expanse couldn’t build enough of an audience on SyFy to stay on the air. At the start of Season 4, Jim Holden (Steven Strait) takes the Rocinante and his crew to Ilus, one of the new planets, where Naomi (Dominique Tipper) promises. Credit showrunner Naren Shankar and head writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby for assembling the team that could make that work in a genre where surface qualities often matter more than character depth. Corey, got started on such a shoestring budget, it had to rely on outstanding writing and incredible cast performances, rather than special effects razzle-dazzle, to win an audience. Other inclusions in The Expanse season 4 include Nadine Nicole as Clarissa Mao, Rosa Gilmore as Lucia Mazur, Jess Salgueiro as Chandra Wei and Lily Gao as Nancy Gao. ![]() It picks up where Season 3 left off: with humanity in a mad rush to get to the 1300 habitable systems beyond the. The Expanse finally returned for its fourth season on December 13th, after being saved from cancellation by Amazon. Because The Expanse, which adapts the popular series of novels by James S.A. WARNING: The following article contains major spoilers for The Expanse Season 4, currently streaming on Amazon Prime.
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