New Netflix series with 'wild concept' is so good people are watching it all in one day
Topics: Game of Thrones, Netflix, Film and TV, Facebook
Emma Rosemurgey
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Topics: Game of Thrones, Netflix, Film and TV, Facebook
If you're on the hunt for an addictive new show you can binge-watch in one weekend, Netflix's new eight-part sci-fi series, from the creators of Game of Thrones, has got you covered.
Just days after its launch on the streaming service, 3 Body Problem has been met with rave reviews from viewers, who watched the whole thing in just one day.
The series, which has been adapted from Cixin Liu's Hugo award-winning 2008 novel, The Three-Body Problem, follows 'a young woman's fateful decision in 1960s China reverberates across space and time into the present day.'
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According to Netflix's synopsis: "When the laws of nature inexplicably unravel before their eyes, a close-knit group of brilliant scientists join forces with an unorthodox detective to confront the greatest threat in humanity’s history.
"The series portrays a fictional past, present and future wherein Earth encounters an alien civilization from a nearby system of three sun-like stars orbiting one another, in an example of the three-body problem in orbital mechanics."
Not only has the TV adaptation been made by the creators of Game of Thrones, it also features a number of recognizable faces from the iconic show, including Liam Cunningham, Jonathan Pryce and John Bradley, who are best known among GoT fans for playing Davos Seaworth, High Sparrow and Samwell Tarley.
They star alongside Zine Tseng, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Rosalind Chao, Doctor Strange's Benedict Wong, Saamer Usmani, Eiza González and Jess Hong, to name a few.
After news of the series adaptation was announced, fans of the novel raised concerns over whether creators would be able to adequately portray the story, given its complicated nonlinear structure, but Alexander Woo put fans' minds at rest.
"What we are hoping to do is to convey the experience, if not necessarily the exact details, of the novel onto the screen," he told Netflix's Tudum.
"What stayed, we hope, is the sense of wonderment and the sense of scope, of scale, where the problems are no longer just the problems of an individual or even a nation, but of an entire species."
The sci-fi series currently has a score of 77 percent on Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer with an average audience score of 78 percent, just five days after its release.
Meanwhile, fans in our Netflix Bangers Facebook group have been loving it, with one viewer writing: "What a mad concept! I loved it," while another wrote: "I loved it, watched it all in one day."
3 Body Problem is available to binge on Netflix now.