How to begin? Well, last week, Netflix dropped its bold adaptation of the first book of Liu Cixin's trilogy, Three Body Problem. This version has eight episodes (the Chinese TV adaptation, which also covers the first book, has 30 episodes), and it has its pluses and minuses.
On the plus side, for example, the series accurately portrays the opening of the science fiction novel, which is set during the Cultural Revolution in the mid-1960s. On the minus side, this opening scene really excited, delighted, and validated the Musk-loving right.
They equated the "struggle session" that kills a Chinese physicist for believing spacetime composes the fabric of the universe with the "woke mind virus" that's stunting, stifling, and castrating Western Civilization. Behold, with a content warning for ableism:Â
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