Sci-fi series from ‘Game of Thrones’ showrunners squanders early promise.
The more willing you are to just go along with the new Netflix series “3 Body Problem” and not question its increasingly frequent leaps in logic, the more likely you are to enjoy it.
Its propulsive first episode, “Countdown” — penned by Benioff, Weiss and Woo and directed, like its solid follow-up installment, “Red Coast,” by Derek Tsang — establishes both the major players and the season’s multi-time-period narrative. Seconds later, as a man who’d just hit on them and is performing a horrendous rendition of Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” on the bar’s karaoke stage, Auggie begins to see a countdown in her field of vision. No one else can see the numbers, which terrifyingly suggest Auggie has a little more than four days before something occurs.
That makes it difficult to be specific about the mounting frustrations caused by the narrative, as so many of them arrive after the major revelation in “3 Body Problem.” We will note, however, that a virtual-reality component of the story — Jin and others use shiny VR headsets that appear to be far more advanced than anything on the market to play a game to try to address the series’ titular physics problem — seems to be rather pointless in the grand scheme of things.
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