Picking up immediately following the emotional and suspenseful second season finale, the 13-episode third season of The Expanse found Earth, Mars and The Belt at war, with each competing entity vying for control. Then the season shifted gears as the Ring opened up and forced the factions to work together to survive. Now that season is over, you can return here to read our reviews and read episode descriptions.
The Expanse Season 3 Reviews and Episode Guide
We’ve been reviewing The Expanse since the very beginning, and we’re not about to stop now! The episode descriptions and air dates will appear below as we learn them alongside the links to our reviews of each episode as they’re written. Enjoy!
The Expanse Season 3 Episode 1: “Fight or Flight”
The Expanse Season 3 Episode 2: “IFF”
The Expanse Season 3 Episode 3: “Assured Destruction”
The Expanse Season 3 Episode 4: “Reload”
The Expanse Season 3 Episode 5: “Triple Point”
The Expanse Season 3 Episode 6: “Immolation”
The Expanse Season 3 Episode 7: “Delta-V”
The Expanse Season 3 Episode 8: “It Reaches Out”
The Expanse Season 3 Episode 9: “Intransigence”
The Expanse Season 3 Episode 10: “Dandelion Sky”
The Expanse Season 3 Episode 11: “Fallen World”
The Expanse Season 3 Episode 12: “Congregation”
The Expanse Season 3 Episode 13: “Abbadon’s Gate”
The Expanse Season 3 Cast
Nadine Nicole of Casual has joined the cast of The Expanse season 3 in major recurring role as Melba, a lowly electrochemical technician who is single-minded of purpose in her hidden agenda. Melba’s later role is awfully familiar for those that have read the novels, but we’ll make that our little secret, shall we?
Those who enjoyed Defiance on Syfy were glad to hear that Anna Hopkins (Berlin on that show) had joined the cast of The Expanse in season 3 in a recurring role. She plays the Earth journalist, Monica, who is quite familiar to readers of the James S.A. Corey novels. Hopkins showed up midway through the season to document how Holden runs the Rocinante and her crew.
It was announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2017 that Lost alum Elizabeth Mitchell will be in a recurring role in The Expanse season 3. Her character name was under wraps at the time, described only as someone who “brings a new, spiritual perspective to the series.” Readers of the James S.A. Corey novels knew that this foretold the appearance of Pastor Anna, who features in both Abbadon’s Gate and Babylon’s Ashes.
In other news, Deadline announced that David Strathairn of The Blacklist and Alphas would be appearing in The Expanse season 3 in a major recurring role. The producers played it close to the vest earlier in the season concerning his character’s identity, but now it’s known that he portrays Ashford, the OPA’s representative on the Behemoth.
The Expanse tells the story of a colonized solar system 200 years in the future, when two strangers and their colleagues become unwittingly swept up in a vast conspiracy. Based on the New York Times bestselling book series collectively known as “The Expanse,” written by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (under the pen name James S. A. Corey), The Expanse stars Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Dominique Tipper, Cas Anvar, Wes Chatham and Frankie Adams.
Season two broke into material from the second of six Corey books, Caliban’s War. Although The Expanse has been remarkably faithful to the novels, there have been plenty of changes that keep even the readers guessing. We expect that to continue in The Expanse season 3.
