Makuochi Echebiri is a writer at Collider who focuses on television, classic movies, epics, superhero movies and sprinkling of horror.
The Big Picture Generally speaking, movies and television shows are created to entertain and occasionally educate to some degree. Some more than others, take the task of educating their audiences to a whole new level, and 3 Body Problem aptly suits that category. While giving audiences a crash course in planetary science, we are all suddenly ecstatic that Earth orbits only one star. If it were three, literal planetary chaos would ensue — the San-Ti are evidence of that.
While the plot is dense, and contains many twists, the central premise for 3 Body Problem features a group of friends, scientists in their own right, who are caught up in an investigation pertaining to serial suicides in the scientific community. The investigation soon leads to them assuming key roles in humanity's defense against a full-scale alien invasion that will happen 400 years in the future.
“You don’t want people to be pushing pause and hitting Wikipedia every five minutes. You could do the version of that that makes people do that but it pulls people out of it. In the book, he’s explaining all this stuff to you anyway in writing. It was a challenge that was ultimately what drew us to the project to begin with.”
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