The Expanse imagines a future in which humans have colonised the solar system.
It opens with a tense stand-off between space agents tracking a ghost ship. Thomas Jane appears as a vigilante detective, wearing a ridiculous hat while hunting for a missing girl.
Then Breaking Bad's Jonathan Banks shows up, barefoot and wild-haired, waving a gun around while talking to pot plants in
his dorm room.
Add in a colony on Mars ready for war, exploding space ships, and a mysterious missing girl, and it appears we have a brand new version of Battlestar Galactica on our hands.
Initially, that's exactly what The Expanse seems to want to be. But the hyped new sci-fi show, based on the acclaimed book series by James S. A. Corey and beginning on Sky TV channel The Zone tonight, has earned comparisons to another ground-breaking epic: Game of Thrones.
c imagines a future in which humans have colonised the solar system. But Mars has rebelled, breaking away to become a military power, and rising tensions - sparked by something major that happens in episode one - have put the two planets on the brink of war.
