![]() ![]() "This is a conversation we've been having since we were canceled the first time," added Abraham. I think one of the things that is sort of an outmoded idea is the idea of being canceled." "It'll feel like a satisfying end to the story we've been building over the first five seasons. "We have what we think is a very natural pause point for the story after season six," Franck explained during a press event. That's because book seven, Persepolis Rising, takes place after a 30-year time jump, which means a potential seventh season would have to use CGI and makeup to age up each character – or even recast them completely, à la The Crown.īack when the cancellation was announced in 2020, writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck referred to the show's end as a "pause" then too (via Polygon): Uh, I don’t think we would have been able to tell the season in any less than six."Īs disappointing as this cancellation is, fans have taken comfort in knowing that there is at least a natural ending point to the climax of book six, which is where season six ends as well. It’s always a negotiation to some extent. It came down to making six episodes of it. I mean, you always kind of agree on how much money you’re going to commit to the production of the show. "That was a decision between Amazon and Alcon Television. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.The Expanse showrunner Naren Shankar told io9 that financial considerations were the main reason behind this – and that's also why season six was cut down from ten episodes to just six: New episodes will premiere every Friday through January 14, 2022. “The Expanse” Season 6 premieres Friday, December 10 on Amazon Prime Video. It’s not exactly unfinished business, but this season - particularly in its last couple episodes - is marked by the confidence of a show that’s got six seasons under its belt and still doesn’t particularly feel like stopping, no matter what any official announcement might say. Outlining the particulars of hull maintenance and even the vacuum silence of space are all part of the building blocks that make “The Expanse” worth the ride.Īmongst the multi-planed dogfights and blissfully comfortable dinner conversations that seem to stretch far past either end of a scene, there’s an overriding feeling that this isn’t quite it for “The Expanse.” If this is goodbye for the denizens of the Roci and the worlds it races by, it’ll be too soon. One particular 360° reintroduction to the exterior of the Roci shows the kind of creative reach of a show that, in many ways, isn’t content to stay at rest. A connected series of cold opens across all six episodes tell the story of a girl on a distant planet whose fate may have some far-reaching implications. It’s consistent, but with an even more compressed timeframe for the show to work in, his strategizing and scheming can’t help but feel like a show focusing its attention away from its strengths. When he’s not barking orders, he’s brooding. Momentary setbacks for Marco’s Free Navy do little to humble him or dissuade him from this future reality’s equivalent of going nuclear. His speechifying and dispensing of wisdom to his moody son, Filip (Jasai Chase-Owens), does make the show feel like it’s in an emotional holding pattern. Marco has been drawn from the start as a tyrant, cloaking himself in a specific kind of demagoguery. On the way there, much of the Season 6 runtime is stuck in a kind of middle ground between the two areas where the show excels. Here, aside from locking in a few of the circumstances around that confrontation, it’s not hard to see the trajectory on which things are heading. The show is no stranger to putting the pieces in place for a climactic showdown, but usually in a longer season those objectives have room to spread out and add to the overall momentum. Where “The Expanse” stalls in Season 6 is elsewhere. ![]() ![]() This group’s longstanding chemistry is “The Expanse” at its finest, with actors effortlessly juggling jargon with ease and making it make sense for the greater story unfolding beyond the walls of their ship. The always-reliable Amos (Wes Chatham) has managed to argue for trusted friend Clarissa Mao (Nadine Nicole) as a provisional crew member, despite her rocky past history with nearly everyone else on board. Holden (Steven Strait) and Naomi (Dominique Tipper) are back searching for the aforementioned agent of space chaos, Marco Inaros (Keon Alexander), for reasons beyond a possible end to an escalating war. It would be an overstatement, though, to say Season 6 doesn’t feel like a season of “The Expanse.” In one key way, the show picks right back up where it left off, with the surviving members of the Rocinante crew back working as a single unit again. ![]()
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