Ready player? Let’s get chaotic.
After diving into China’s Cultural Revolution in 3 Body Problem’s first two episodes, Episode 3 focuses on the increasingly weird interstellar intrigue of the present. We also dig into the science behind this science-fiction mystery, helmed by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and True Blood writer Alexander Woo.
“One of the really fun things about [Cixin Liu’s] books is that it combines a whole bunch of different genres before really getting into the hard science fiction,” says Woo. “I think that appealed to us in adapting the show: You’re not automatically along those science fiction rails from the beginning.”