The Expanse (2015)
The stars are better off without us.
A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 14 December 2015 |
| Status | Ended, last episode 13 January 2022 |
| Genre | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
| Created by | Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby |
| Starring | Steven Strait, Dominique Tipper and Wes Chatham |
| Seasons | 6 seasons, 62 episodes |
| Episode length | about 45 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 47 hours |
| Rated | TV-14 |
| Scores | TMDB users 8.1/10 |
Where to watch The Expanse
The Expanse is streaming on Prime Video ($8.99 a month) in the US. At ten hours a week, all of the series takes about 2 months of Prime Video, or $17.98 at list price.
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What kind of watch this is
The Expanse treats hard science fiction with the grim patience of a procedural, where every jump in the solar system costs time and every answer hides a deeper question. Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby built a universe where politics, physics, and paranoia are equally lethal, turning a missing person case into a solar-system-wide conspiracy that unfolds over 6 seasons and 62 episodes. It is not a show that holds your hand. The pacing is deliberate, the stakes are existential, and the tech is grounded enough to feel heavy. It runs 47 hours total. That is a long way to travel just to find out who is lying.
How it did with audiences
TMDB users score it 8.1 out of 10. That is a solid number for a show about people trying not to die in space. There are no box office figures here, obviously. It is a television series, not a theatrical release.
Season four marked a shift in how the show was tracked. It was the first season not to air on live TV or receive weekly viewership ratings. Parrot Analytics ranked it fourth among most-watched digital originals in the United States in December 2019. The metrics changed, but the audience stayed.
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Sources
- The Expanse on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q18389644 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “The Expanse (TV series)” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
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