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The unfortunate last episode of a series that started with a bang and ended with a whimper. From mega cool video games, dehydrated bodies going back to life with a jump in the pool, and morally ambiguous Chinese scientists to a bunch of lovelorn ethnically correct failures.

The San-Ti are omnipotent and yet they send a pathetic white male sniper to kill Saul. Clearly, the guy was going to fail, because the show established that all white males are disposable, inept, or just plain bad. So why not send infallible Tatiana? She's a girl, she can do anything better. Or use the female Sophone, she is a supergirl and can kill people in various sophisticated ways. But no... they try with a stupid car accident and a sniper, kind of primitive and bound to fail.

The "Let's save Saul" plot took almost the whole episode, compounded by the trite clichè of the "reluctant hero". They give Saul a job he doesn't want and refuses, even if everybody knows he will end up doing it. Mega waste of time.

Will's brain is lost in space (or is it?) causing deep sorrow to Jin, who after having ignored him for all her life was now hoping for a resurrection.

Given that the target audience for this is young males (most SF fans are males, anyway) there is also a useless scene with nano-girl boss Auggie standing on her moral high ground and pouting about giving clean water to the poor in South America. Thumbs up Auggie!

I enjoyed only the final scene, with Clarence my favorite character, but I still wonder why the San-Ti didn't plan a better operation to wipe out everybody from planet Earth. Not that I would help them, but watching a show like this makes me feel hopeless about the future of the human race.

Considering it's no guarantee whether Netflix will renew this series for a second season, I was kinda hoping for a better finale than this.

Auggie's storyline is bewildering, and humanity's future continues to remain bleak. However, it is abundantly clear that the hope stemming from humanity's "non-zero" chance of survival has resulted in impressive technological accomplishments in only a short timespan, meriting the fears the Santi have for humanity, despite the massive technological gap between the two intelligent species.

While I did not mind many questions being left unanswered (this is after all science fiction), I do wished the writers relied a little less on "our lord works in mysterious ways" for the inconsistencies of the scope of the Santi's abilities.

Overall, while I would not consider this to be the best sci-fi series I've seen, it still is miles ahead of the countless other mediocre Netflix shows that are still in production, and I hope we get to see a second season.

Here we have yet another series that comes out of the gate with a bang and delivers a solid 5 episodes before completely falling flat for the remainder. I am not familiar with the books, so I am ignorant as to whether this follows closely to the books at all, but it really doesn't matter because it lost all momentum for these last few episodes

The first 5 would get a 9/10 from me. There was a properly mysterious foe, intriguing characters, and solid plot progression. It all felt like it was building to something big. Then it all fell apart. Plot holes developed all over the place, and the momentum was killed to spend 3 filler episodes on melodrama. It's almost like they ran out of money, but had to turn in 8 episodes, so they just threw something together with very little coherence and entirely inconsistent with what came before. It almost felt like two different shows

People turned on each other all over the place for weird reasons, all the plot build up was stopped in it's tracks, and we were given very little explanation for why any of it was happening. It felt like it was moving too slow and too fast at the same time. Most of the screen time was spent on boring conversations that didn't really add much, and then it would skip ahead in the story glossing over everything in between

I am sadly getting GOT season 8 vibes where things just happen that are out of character with very little build up to explain any of it. I hope they can bounce back for season 2, but if they are already wheel spinning this early I have concerns.

Show makes you think about the impact of relationships, outcomes, consequences, and decisions. I thoroughly enjoyed the show considering the inter-galactic, political implications while still managing to make it connect on a human level. I wish they further explored the financial impact on the world these scenarios would bring. The score and the music choices are fitting and wonderful. The sorry progression evolves aggressively leaving the viewer wondering which path and which motive each faction has to achieve what they consider, "success". Plenty of questions still left unanswered. Overall, I can't wait to watch more and I will now be reading the books. Awesome.

This is the first time I've written a review for a series or movie here, even though I've been using IMDB for over 20 years. Even if "3 Body Problem" wasn't necessarily as thrilling as "Game of Thrones" or "Breaking Bad" in the first season, I have to tell you: It grabbed me! And: I want to know what happens next, how it will be realized on film. I know the audiobook even though it's been a few years since I listened to it and I've already forgotten a lot of things, but I'm really excited to see how it will continue in the coming seasons. So please Netflix: plan seasons 2 and 3 and 4 etc. And please broadcast them quickly :) I like 3 Body Problem!!!