3 Body Problem
3 Body Problem is an American science fiction television series created by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss and Alexander Woo. Based on the Chinese novel series Remembrance of Earth's Past by computer engineer-turned-fiction author Liu Cixin, it is its third streaming series adaptation after the animated The Three-Body Problem in Minecraft (2014–2020) and the Chinese live-action Three-Body (2023), and the first not exclusively in Mandarin. It is named after the first novel in the series, The Three-Body Problem (2008), itself named after the eponymous physics theory.
Plot
Ye Wenjie, a Chinese astrophysicist, runs into trouble with the authorities after witnessing her father's death during a struggle session in the Cultural Revolution. Due to her scientific background, she is sent to a secret military base racing against other countries to make first contact with aliens during the Cold War. While there, she makes a choice that impacts humanity's future. In present-day London, a series of mysterious suicides and science-averse phenomena lead a government investigator and a group of friends called the "Oxford Five" into a mystery of extraterrestrial origin.
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| author | Alexander Woo D. B. Weiss David Benioff |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station London Mexico New York City Oxford Panama People's Republic of China |
| director | Derek Tsang |
| genre | drama fantasy live-action mystery science fiction thriller |
| keywords | astrophysicist cold war cultural revolution first contact group of friends military base struggle session |
| musicBy | Ramin Djawadi |
| publisher | Netflix |
| recordedAt | Hawthorne Jacksonville New York City People's Republic of China Shepperton Studios United Kingdom |
| theme | race |