co-creator Alexander Woo in an adaptation of one of the 21st century’s most celebrated books. Chinese author Cixin Liu’s Hugo-winning—published in his home country in 2006, then expanded into a trilogy that has been translated into dozens of languages—is a fascinating novel of ideas. The cover of the American edition boasts an endorsement from Barack Obama, who calls it “
It certainly is. Choppily written, dense with theoretical physics and philosophy, and dependent on the depiction of an alien race whose physical form is never described, the book also poses unique challenges for anyone looking to adapt it for the screen. Benioff, Weiss, and Woo have been remarkably successful at transforming Liu’s work into a gripping sci-fi thriller , without either dumbing it down or boring viewers with hours’ worth of whiteboard lectures.
The first of two interconnected storylines, set decades apart, follows a brilliant young astrophysicist, Ye Wenjie , during thefurther inflames her pessimism about the human race, Ye is recruited to work at a remote, mountaintop military base on a secret initiative known as Red Coast. One choice she makes there will reverberate around not just the globe, but also the universe.Meanwhile, in 2024, scientists are dying by suicide.
We may hear some grumbling from fans who savored the books’ work-showing, in lengthy government reports and painstaking accounts of aliens’ experiments with protons. The heart of this story isn’t an equation, though. It’s an inquiry into the nature of human civilization and the role of scientific progress in our salvation—or our doom. Netflix’ssometimes tries too hard to be cool, sprinkling in Lana Del Rey needle drops and recreational drug use.
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