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3 Body Problem
S1.E7
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Only Advance

  • Episode aired Mar 21, 2024
  • TV-MA
  • 58m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
5.4K
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Alex Sharp in 3 Body Problem (2024)
AdventureDramaFantasyMysterySci-Fi

A bold proposition for the Staircase Project puts the group at odds. Will weighs his options. Ye returns to a familiar place.A bold proposition for the Staircase Project puts the group at odds. Will weighs his options. Ye returns to a familiar place.A bold proposition for the Staircase Project puts the group at odds. Will weighs his options. Ye returns to a familiar place.

  • Director
    • Jeremy Podeswa
  • Writers
    • David Benioff
    • D.B. Weiss
    • Alexander Woo
  • Stars
    • Jovan Adepo
    • Rosalind Chao
    • Liam Cunningham
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    5.4K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jeremy Podeswa
    • Writers
      • David Benioff
      • D.B. Weiss
      • Alexander Woo
    • Stars
      • Jovan Adepo
      • Rosalind Chao
      • Liam Cunningham
    • 7User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Jovan Adepo
    Jovan Adepo
    • Saul Durand
    Rosalind Chao
    Rosalind Chao
    • Ye Wenjie
    Liam Cunningham
    Liam Cunningham
    • Thomas Wade
    Eiza González
    Eiza González
    • Auggie Salazar
    Jess Hong
    Jess Hong
    • Jin Cheng
    Marlo Kelly
    Marlo Kelly
    • Tatiana
    Alex Sharp
    Alex Sharp
    • Will Downing
    Sea Shimooka
    Sea Shimooka
    • Sophon
    Zine Tseng
    Zine Tseng
    • Young Ye Wenjie
    Saamer Usmani
    Saamer Usmani
    • Raj Varma
    Benedict Wong
    Benedict Wong
    • Da Shi
    Adrian Edmondson
    Adrian Edmondson
    • Denys Porlock
    Gerard Monaco
    Gerard Monaco
    • Collins
    Hélène Viviès
    • Lecompte
    Stephen Rahman Hughes
    Stephen Rahman Hughes
    • Anwar Suleiman
    • (as Stephen Rahman-Hughes)
    Aidan Cheng
    Aidan Cheng
    • Reg
    Bea Svistunenko
    • Laeticia
    Bilal Hasna
    Bilal Hasna
    • Edgar
    • Director
      • Jeremy Podeswa
    • Writers
      • David Benioff
      • D.B. Weiss
      • Alexander Woo
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    5Rob-O-Cop

    why would they bother?

    Seriously, why would they bother sending assassins around the world to knock off people who pose absolutely no threat to them. It just defies any sense of logic. It's a waste of effort. Why aren't they trying to knock off Wade? He's the main threat to them. Not some old lady with no power.

    Same with old Samwell Tarley, it was pointless, there are so many higher targets to be bothered with. And if they've got these magic proton computers darting around the world why bother with the cloak and dagger stuff, why not crash the plane she flew over on.

    It makes no sense and makes it seem like the show runners are in it for the titillation. They want to have a nutjob assassin in the show doing psycho things, so that's the only reason for titiana and her plot points.
    2dierregi

    Another one bites the dust

    One of the few remaining but disposable white males in the show is going to depart our sorrowful planet - metaphorically and literally. Will, or just the best part of him, is sent to the sky (literally), after having spent 19.5 million to buy a star for Jin, because he was madly in love with her even if they have zero chemistry, but after all they're physicians...

    After a lengthy, soppy goodbye scene the show is finally ethnically cleansed from the embarrassing presence of the remaining British white male.

    Elsewhere, nano-girl boss Auggie decides to flaunt her moral standard by metaphorically mounting on her high horse and riding away in the sunset. Probably her ego wasn't pampered enough, as a mere member of the Staircase Project. Probably they should have kissed her B side more.

    Finally, Tatiana the ruthless killer-girl boss is resurrected for a mission to eliminate the now useless Dr. Ye. Not that I am sad about Ye's demise, even if I share her point of view about humanity, but this makes one wonder why the omnipotent girl boss Sophone needs to move her agents around the world to eliminate a useless and powerless old woman. Would you bother so much to squash a bug that's crawling out of your garden?
    2Wbsmith

    Just agony to watch

    Watching this for the sake of the family, it makes me want to scratch my eyeballs out, it is so boring and excruciating, nauseating, enervating.

    I am (very) mildly curious to see how it turns out, I heard that the book was good, but these characters are just painful and pathetic. Even if we could accept the human drama aspects, which I find so annoying and artificial, they could surely get it over and done with in about a tenth of the time and move the plot forward and give us a bit of action- please?

    The actors are mostly (except you know who I mean) so unattractive and have so little charisma, they are so unconvincing in attempting to portray scientists with such deadening earnest, I know plenty of real scientists who I would much rather spend tíme with.
    8Hitchcoc

    More in the Future

    At my age it is disappointing when something I'm tuned into is not going to be completed until much later. Knowing there is a published trilogy and at least two more seasons in the future, I'm not expecting to be satisfied with Episode 8. Here we have the Stair Project. They need someone who has nothing to lose and has a huge grasp of physics to go on a journey to see the aliens. Will, of course, is dying and has no loyalties to the people of earth. He is a natural choice, but he does love and even though it would be short lived, it seems like an amazing sacrifice to get on board. I've decided to read at least the first book. It will be fun to see if there is something more involved than can be presented in a fictional drama.
    7Sleepin_Dragon

    A big decision for Will.

    Ye Wenjie returns to the place where events were set in motion, Will is offered a mind blowing proposition.

    The cynic in me is thinking there's no chance of a conclusion in the next episode, after this one, it somehow doesn't seem very likely, events are being expanded upon, nothing really looks like coming to a head, I almost done want it to.

    You may be a little disappointed if you're wanting action, and those marvellous special effects, this is very much more an episode all about character development. I enjoyed it, interesting, revealing, just not very exciting.

    Alex Sharp and Liam Cunningham were both excellent I thought, very different actors and characters, but the results are so good, Will's story has become so interesting.

    I hope it's a big end to the series, it promises much.

    7/10.

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    • Trivia
      The voice on the end of the phone, that Wade (Liam Cunningham) calls at 18:53 into the episode, is Brad Pitt's, who also serves as one of the producers of the series.
    • Quotes

      Ye Wenjie: Would you like to hear a joke?

      [They sit on a bench]

      Ye Wenjie: So Einstein dies. He finds himself in heaven, and he has his violin. He's overjoyed. He loves his violin, more than physics; Even more than women. He's excited to find out how well he can play in heaven. He imagines he'll be pretty damn good. So he starts tuning up, and the angels rush at him. 'What are you doing?' they say. 'I'm getting ready to play.' 'Don't do that. God won't like it. He's a saxophonist.' So Einstein stops. He doesn't play. But it's difficult. He loves music. And there's actually not much to do in heaven. And sure enough, from high above, he hears a saxophone. It's playing 'Take the 'A' Train', do you know that one?

      Saul Durand: Yeah, I've heard it.

      Ye Wenjie: Einstein knows it too. And he thinks, I'm going to do it. I'm going to play with him. We're going to sound great together. So he starts playing 'Take the 'A' Train'. The saxophone stops, and God appears. He marches over to Einstein and kicks him in the balls, which hurts, even in heaven. Then he smashes Einstein's beloved violin to bits. Eternity without music. Heaven has become hell for Einstein. And as he writhes on the ground, holding his smashed balls, an angel comes over and says: 'We warned you: Never play with God.'

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    • Release date
      • March 21, 2024 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Guadalupe, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain(Red Coast Base)
    • Production companies
      • Bighead Littlehead
      • Plan B Entertainment
      • Primitive Streak
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