The Expanse - Season 2 (2017)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2017
	Creators: Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby
	Actors: Thomas Jane (Deep Blue Sea), Steven Strait, Cas Anvar, Dominique Tipper, Shohreh Aghdashloo (X-men: The Last Stand, Star Trek Beyond, 24 TV-series)
	Country: USA
	Genre: SF
	Conditions of visioning: September-October 2017, VOD, 40" TV screen
Synopsis: Since the discovery they made on Eros, the crew of the Rocinante led by Jim Holden (Strait) regroups with their Belter friends on Tycho Station and devise a plan to save a Solar system in which Mars and Earth are on the brink of war.
Review: If you haven't watched the first season recently, it can be difficult to remember everything that happened then in order to enjoy the start of the second in the best conditions, so I recommend watching a recap online, like this one on YouTube that includes photos, especially since Netflix unfortunately doesn't offer this option like it does on other series. I was glad I didn't have to wait too long to watch this second season after the open ending of the first. The main characters that we learned to like are still here (I especially like the detective Miller), but the season has a different structure: instead of showing different investigations in parallel, we now have our characters fighting towards a common goal together. That is something that disturbed me about this season: the fate of the whole System seems to be in the hand of the crew of that ship, a mission unrealistically big for them. Another element that disturbed me is that handling of time periods: the editing is done so that travelling between planets seem to take hours only, which was less disturbing in the first season. Finally the filming of the effects of gravity that I managed to overlook in the first season now disturbed me more. However, besides those few flaws I still find many qualities to the series that resurface around mid-season: the politics are intriguing, the special effects always so good, and new characters and locations can only capture my imagination: Martian Marines, farms on one of Jupiter's moon and a giant spaceship built to travel across the stars (inspired by Arthur C. Clarkes' Rendezvous with Rama).
Rating: 6 /10