3 Body Problem: Season 1 - TV Reviews (2024)

3 Body Problem is an adaptation with all the ingredients for success, but it doesn’t match the original material’s efforts doesn’t to create something unique and compelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 4, 2024

This is a big, brilliant, and beautiful sci-fi epic that was worth the wait.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 3, 2024

3 Body Problem won’t be for everyone – but it’s an elegant solution. … This is an absorbing scientific mystery that rewards alert viewers.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 21, 2024

Despite some flashes of sci-fi prowess, it never fully takes off due to a script so uneven that ends up alienating our interest. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jun 15, 2024

This series builds a world below the surface where who where are and our place in time, space and the galaxy are all up for discussion.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | May 23, 2024

Liu Cixin’s hard science fiction epic is much more than alien threats with more emphasis on the cultural revolutions and human problems.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 22, 2024

The result is a confused mishmash: The rational, scientific side of the story isn’t coldly detailed enough to captivate, and its emotional side feels too superficial or muddled to cut deep.

Full Review | May 21, 2024

Netflix has taken an introspective story about the depression and nihilism inherent in collective scientific possibility and turned it into a romantic narrative about the individualist triumph of those people smart enough to drive scientific progress.

Full Review | May 5, 2024

Perhaps everything happens too quickly, maybe some characters need more room and the viewer needs a break. But the plot is surprising, it intensifies and delivers a twist to the current debate about where technology is taking us. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Apr 22, 2024

It asks a series of interesting questions and presents a string of intriguing SciFi ideas in the process. It results in an engaging and mysterious series that will keep viewers invested from start to finish.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 12, 2024

Fascinating ideas and concepts are presented in an intriguing, accesible and entertaining way, while the human characters (scientist core group) leave a lot to be desired. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2024

3 Body Problem remains grounded in human drama.

Full Review | Apr 8, 2024

Visually spectacularand a good cast — Wong in particular.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 8, 2024

Based on Cixin Liu’s megapopular sci-fi novels, 3 Body Problem is an engrossing spectacle about alien invasion. It’s a welcome 21st-century twist on the old War of the Worlds premise.

Full Review | Apr 5, 2024

Offering plenty of thought-provoking and mind-bending conceits, 3 Body is not exactly casual viewing, but it’s a show that rewards close attention.

Full Review | Apr 5, 2024

I really enjoyed the series in spite of most of the leads either being annoying or just not clicking with me as the actual sci-fi and general concepts presented were so good.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2024

The show confidently takes its audience into uncharted territory, peeling back mystery after mystery.

Full Review | Apr 3, 2024

For those who love their sci-fi with a healthy dose of mind-bending concepts, high stakes, and a slow burn that explodes into pure sci-fi brilliance.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 2, 2024

Episode 5 is easily one of the best TV episodes of the year. 3 Body Problem has a wonderful cast and stunning visuals, but the final 3 episodes feel a little anti-climatic in this slow-burn series.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 1, 2024

Ambitious, towering and crammed with big ideas about intellectual curiosity, exploration and our place in the universe while still managing to tell intimate stories about human relationships.

Full Review | Apr 1, 2024