The fifth season of acclaimed sci-fi drama series “The Expanse” launched on Amazon this week and for the third season in a row has managed a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes along with a stellar 8.96/10 average rating this time among its reviews.
The new season returns the Rocinante crew back to our own Solar System where the geopolitical fallout from the proto molecule continues and the charismatic Marco Inaros unites the Outer Planets Alliance and the various belter factions into a force against Earth and Mars.
As we know, the series is set to finish with its sixth season which marks a natural endpoint of the story despite there being three more books in the series that could be adapted.
Writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, who together work under the name ‘James S. A. Corey’ who penned the books the show is based on, spoke with Slashfilm recently and Franck explained why they’re ending the show here and how this may not be the true end:
“The end of book six is a natural breakpoint, I keep calling it a natural pause in the story. So, you get to the end of season 6, you’re going to feel like that’s a satisfying ending to the story that we’ve been setting up for five seasons.
It doesn’t mean that we’re done. There’s still more stuff we can be doing and Alcon [the production company behind The Expanse] seems very interested in doing more stuff but I don’t know what the shape of that will be yet.”
The first three episodes of the ten-episode fifth season are currently streaming on Amazon and the entire season will be available in full from February 3rd.
