The Three-Body Problem is one of the most fascinating and thought- provoking pieces of speculative fiction to come out in recent years, but you wouldn't know it if you didn't watch the show.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery was one of the projects spotlighted during this year's Tudum. Tudum didn't say much about or hype up the show when it was focused on the adaptation of The Three- Body Problem.
During their brief time in the spotlight, Woo, Weiss, and Benioff shared that they have recently completed production on 3 Body Problem's first season and opened up about what initially attracted them to the project. The 3 Body Problem was described by Woo as a history of humanity from the point of first contact with an alien civilization all the way to the end of the universe.
At a time when studios have become comfortable essentially spoiling the entirety of their features and series with their advertising campaigns, there is something refreshing about how relatively little noiseNetflix has been making about 3 Body Problem since news of its production first broke in 2020. It was a bit disappointing to see 3 Body Problem's executive producers and some of its cast vaguely summarize the show as a "hotly anticipated" project.
The depth and breadth of The Three Body-Problem is hard to sum up in two minutes. The story is about how profoundly the world changes after humans make first contact with extraterrestrial life, but it is also about the small, pivotal moments in a society's history that have outsized impacts on the shape.
Before The Three-Body Problem shifts its focus to the different ways that Earth's nations respond when aliens make their existence known, the novel spends a lot of time setting its stage with a brutal and frank reflection on China'sCultural Revolution. One of the big and brilliant ways the book prepares you for the macro view of the universe is by examining the immediate and long-term consequences of China's Revolution-era policies.
There is a close-up, micro view of China's specific history and how The Three-Body Problem frames it as one relatively small piece of humanity's record in the grand scheme of all things. The Three-Body Problem isn't unique to technology and societies working as a kind of organic circuit. The way that the books intricately weave those ideas together and use them to ground the trilogy's story as it becomes increasingly mind-bending is as impressive as it is.
That was the kind of impression Apple wanted people to get from the handful of teases it dropped for Foundation, David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman's series that is similar to 3 Body Problem. Foundation might not have been able to live up to all of its hype, but presenting viewers with a clear view of just howambitious any given project is is an important part of how studios set them up.
There is still time forNetflix to talk about 3 Body Problem with a studio that believes it has another hit on its hands. If 3 Body Problem is supposed to be the next big thing for the streaming service, it will have to step up its game a bit before it arrives.
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