The Expanse

2015
4.7
4.6K reviews
TV-MA
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Season 1 episodes (24)

1 Dulcinea
12/14/15
In the asteroid belt near Saturn, James Holden and the crew of the ice-freighter Canterbury, investigate a distress call from a mysterious derelict ship, the Scopuli. On Ceres Station, Detective Miller begins an off the book investigation of a missing heiress, Julie Mao.
2 Inside The Expanse: Episode 1
12/15/15
Season-only
The cast talks Season 1, Episode 1, “Dulcinea.”
3 The Big Empty
12/15/15
Holden and crew fight for survival in a badly damaged shuttle. Miller uncovers clues to Julie Mao, as water rationing hits Ceres station. On Earth, UN Deputy Undersecretary Crisjen Avasarala interrogates a belter terrorist.
4 Inside The Expanse: Episode 2
12/16/15
Season-only
The cast talks Season 1, Episode 2, “The Big Empty."
5 Remember the Cant
12/16/15
Holden and crew are taken prisoner aboard the Martian navy flagship, the Donnager and are forced to turn on one another. Miller contends with riots on Ceres, he connects Julie to the mysterious derelict ship, the Scopuli. Avasarala engages in a nasty game of politics with an old friend.
6 Inside The Expanse: Episode 3
12/16/15
Season-only
The cast talks Season 1, Episode 3, “Remember the Cant."
7 CQB
12/16/15
Holden and crew are caught in the middle of a desperate battle as mysterious war ships attack and board the Donnager. As Miller continues to investigate Julie Mao, his partner Havelock continues to go missing.
8 Inside The Expanse: Episode 4
12/16/15
Season-only
The cast talks Season 1, Episode 4, “CQB."
9 Back to the Butcher
1/5/16
Fresh off escaping the destruction of The Donnager, Holden's crew worries for their lives as they are taken in by The Butcher of Anderson Station. Meanwhile Detective Miller expresses relief and Havelock's survival while making real headway in the Julie Mao case.
10 Inside The Expanse: Episode 5
1/5/16
Season-only
The cast talks Season 1, Episode 5, “Back to the Butcher."
11 Rock Bottom
1/12/16
Holden's team makes an uneasy alliance with Fred Johnson while Miller fights for his life against Anderson Dawe's thugs.
12 Inside The Expanse: Episode 6
1/12/16
Season-only
The cast talks Season 1, Episode 6, “Rock Bottom.”
13 Windmills
1/19/16
Holden and crew realize that they're not alone on the Rocinante and find themselves up against a Martian Marine blockade. Miller's dark night of the soul, believing all is lost, finds a new reason to keep going. Avasarala visits Holden's family in Montana.
14 Inside The Expanse: Episode 7
1/19/16
Season-only
The cast talks Season 1, Episode 7, “Windmills"
15 Salvage
1/26/16
The crew of the Rocinante discovers a derelict vessel, which holds a secret that may destroy human existence. Holden and crew are lead to Eros, where they finally cross paths with Miller, only to make another horrifying discovery. On Earth, Avasarala receives some devastating news.
16 Inside The Expanse: Episode 8
1/26/16
Season-only
The cast talks Season 1, Episode 8, "Salvage."
17 Critical Mass
2/2/16
A flashback to Julie's origin story reveals her trajectory. Holden and Miller finally meet and team up to get to the bottom of the strange emergency situation happening on Eros. As the true horror of the events on Eros is revealed, an ailing Holden and Miller must overcome incredible odds if they hope to live to fight another day. Part 1 of 2
18 Leviathan Wakes
2/2/16
A flashback to Julie's origin story reveals her trajectory. Holden and Miller finally meet and team up to get to the bottom of the strange emergency situation happening on Eros. As the true horror of the events on Eros is revealed, an ailing Holden and Miller must overcome incredible odds if they hope to live to fight another day. Part 2 of 2
19 Inside The Expanse: Episode 9
2/2/16
Season-only
The cast talks Season 1, Episode 9, “Leviathan Wakes".
101 Sneak Peek
11/23/15
In the epic new sci-fi series The Expanse, the case of a missing young woman could expose the greatest conspiracy in human history. Find out more in this special sneak peek.
102 Premise
11/23/15
The Expanse follows the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective, and a rogue ship's captain to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
103 Page to Screen
11/23/15
Season-only
The Expanse started out as a New York Times Bestseller. See how it was brought to life.
104 Characters
11/23/15
Season-only
Meet the men and women of The Expanse, futuristic drama.
105 Future World
11/23/15
Season-only
With futuristic drama The Expanse, mankind has colonized Mars and the asteroid belt. See what these future settlements are like.

About this show

In this noir thriller set two hundred years in the future, the case of a missing young woman leads a washed-up detective across the solar system to uncover the greatest conspiracy in human history. This discovery could drive mankind to either its evolution or destruction.

Ratings and reviews

4.7
4.6K reviews
Walter Scott
December 9, 2015
The pilot episode was simply amazing. Stunning visuals, great pacing, solid acing and a nice introduction to this deep and well developed world. Based on the series of novels by James S. A. Corey, the story is set 200 years in the future where mankind has colonized the Moon, Mars, the asteroid belt, and some outer moons, but the stars are out of our reach. The story revolves around a James Holden the second officer on a space ship hauling ice from the rings of Saturn to the port-city asteroid Ceres, when they come across an abandoned ship sending out a distress call. What they find there could change the fate of the solar system. Another key player in the story is Detective Miller, a cop on Ceres station, a man trying to enforce the law in the land of the lawless. Along with his other duties, he is tasked with locating Julie Mao the oldest child of Jules-Pierre Mao, one of the of richest and most powerful men in the system, who ran off to become a freedom fighter. The more he looks in to it, the more Miller starts to think there is a lot more to this case than meets the eye.
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Toto Mango
June 16, 2017
Got the first season from the Library and I'm glad I did, because I was thinking of buying it without seeing it first, the reviews were so glorious. But I found it rather boring and unrealistic. Its hard to believe that humanity survived that long, first off. And they're still using 2017 slang. Amazing. And no, NY will not have to have a wall surrounding it to hold back the climate damage...nor will the world turn to socialism to survive (a failed econ system). Yawn....
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Alejandro Dever
January 14, 2017
The stories link together in complex ways that are somewhat unpredictable and denote the underlying cultural processes which are at the heart of the mythology being unveiled. This is REAL SCIFI. It is as if many of the characters came from an ASIMOVIAN universe. The agoraphobic detective, the posh genius politician, the space crew and the underground societies of Trantor. or earth. The tense relations between the center and the periphery of a deteriorating earther empire that crumbles into something new in the Expanse.
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