Netflix’s Most Ambitious Sci-Fi Show of 2024 is an Epic Disappointment

Science fiction has been mainstream for a while now. It's been a long time since sci-fi was truly esoteric — the kind that was more science than fiction, and that explored ideas beyond our understanding. In a time when a general audience member has a passing knowledge of string theory, this has proven to be more and more difficult. But in 2008, Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem got pretty close. An ambitious, multi-generational saga that followed scientists who sought to fend off the slow invasion of Earth by a race of technologically superior aliens, The Three-Body Problem took its name…