This is a sci-fi series from the creator of Game of Thrones that adapts a Hugo award-winning Chinese novel, but with almost all the characters changed to Westerners. It keeps only the major plot events and the Chinese female lead character from the beginning. While this aspect is done well, it completely loses the deeper Chinese political science content of the original. And viewers of the series cannot then go read the original novel. Additionally, the newly created characters become a group of drunken scientists full of Western-style personal life and romantic issues, which is an unnecessary aspect that the show labors on throughout. This greatly reduces the value of the original work. (The previous Chinese TV series version on WeTV was much more faithful to the original novel.)
Review of 3 Body Problem
3 Body Problem
(2024– )
It adapted the acclaimed Chinese novel into a typical Western-style TV series.
23 March 2024