I’m glad there is this version. I’m pretty sure they will ruin the Netflix version by adding unnecessary adult scenes.

I read the book years ago so it's not all that fresh in my mind, which I think is good--I just remember the general outline of the story and so I can thoroughly enjoy this version on its own merits. And boy does it have merits! I'm obsessed with it, it's so so good. I really can't see how Netflix can come even close, and it frustrates me that so many people aren't going to watch this version simply because they don't know about it or because they "don't like foreign stuff with subtitles". I'm blown away by how good it looks, how tight and engrossing the storyline is, the acting, the pacing, the visuals--and on such a low budget! I've been a scifi/fantasy fan for most of my life and only pretty recently into C-dramas, so for me it's an amazing feeling when those two things collide and the result is this good.

Just finished the last episode. The last episode had me literally shaking. Now the wait begins for season 2. The film makers took this drama seriously. Everything screams passion project I was absolutely impressed and satisfied. For such an acclaimed book, they did it justice and respect which was the most concerning thing when books get adapted. None of that dumb stuff happened. I hope none of that dumb stuff sneaks into the second season either, but I am worried it would not be able to reach the same level of quality. I understand what you mean by the "stuff that can't be shown on screen" my brother says that the book goes deep into that so in comparison and for me the motivation building up to the moment where humanity's fate was decided by one person's small action was kind of not enough for me. Also the exposition dump at the last episode although it was kind of needed, I just wished all that info wasn't just delivered like that. My only peeves with this amazing drama. While Netflix won't have censorship issues, they got a whole bunch of issues of their own that makes me doubt the adaptation after what they did to Witcher and what the showrunners did with GoT last season. I guess for this situation, the more adaptations the better. Competition is a good thing for consumer at the end. We can watch all three and pick our fav.

I really enjoy listening to Avenue X, because their reviews are not frivolous: she teach us to look at films and series in a more technical, profound and critical way (actors' performance, plot, image, special effects...) and, being Chinese and having worked in the Chinese entertainment industry, she helps us understand the Chinese history and society portrayed in these films and series and the specificity of the entertainment industry as well as the "crazy world of Chinese fans".

Wow, I didn't realize the budget was so low, the production looks fantastic. Thank you so much for making this video. I'm just obsessed with these books and I've loving Tencent's adaptation. It's refreshing to see a show made by people that truly understand and appreciate the source material. I hope everyone spreads word of how fantastic this series is. I REALLY want them to make the other two books but they're going to be way more expensive to produce IMO. So shut up and take my money, Tencent.

They need to complete this series....they can't leave me hanging 😁

(São Paulo/Brasil) This adaptation of Three Body is such a relief for me... After knowing about the work being on the hands of those at Netflix who can't make good script decisions and expending too much money on It, puting the series in risk looong before It starts, i was devastated. The joy, besides the story of my so beloved Cixin Liu trilogy, is to finally know some wonderful senior chinese actors, since my little experience on chinese shows involves too much young characters. Sometimes it looks like only teenagers matters in China. Am i crazy to think that? Sorry to say that... So happy about this show. Thank you for your comments. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

This drama is absolutely fascinating. Especially if you have no knowledge of the book. I love its mystery

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! The drama is amazing and for Sci Fi person like me, this got me hooked. Please if you can reach the executive producers of this series, tell them that we love it and we appreciate the excellent choice of the cast, and superb acting and the animation that is wonderful. Thank you so much for the review and for loving it as much as I do. 🌹🌹🌹🌹

this is my first experiense watching chinese drama... im very impressed of quality and watch all the details. love Shi Qian actor... first time i saw him i said "he's not Shi Quiang" but 5min later love him!!!! i enjoy alot this adaptation. !! im not english or chinese speaker and have a little troubles translate the dialogues but still enjoy this journey of Three Body !!!

Thank you very much AvenueX.. I was waiting for your review on the Three Body Problem. I have less time and I need to manage it to take a little self time for this drama watching. Now I can schedule the rest time for this drama with sheer satisfaction.

Really glad you talked about this drama. I'm not a Sci fi fan so I hadn't heard about the book (though my husband had read it). Now the whole family is watching it, and we absolutely love it. Really interesting story, great acting, beautiful and interesting cinematography, wonderful eerie, haunting music... what a great drama.

I really enjoy the drama so far. I read the book 2 years ago and am currently reading Dark Forest..nearly finish. I was so excited when I heard about a drama being made. I hope there will be a second and third drama. Thanks for making a video on this.

I get educated every time you make this type of video. These are my favorites because I learn so much and it enhances my viewing, the downside is now I am more aware and I have become more particular about my viewing. I haven't started watching this yet but I will start tomorrow. I prefer subtleties actors reactions more than gory battles. Thanks so much.

Incredible, all your points are spot on, even on the author and his other lesser known works. ^applaud Pat yourself on the back please. In addition, I didn't expect the tree farm scenes to be so elaborate. But in retrospect, it was necessary. Well done, production team. You guys are better than the Hollywood or Seoul studios!! Keep up the great work!!!

Absolutely love this drama. The human computer scene really looks awesome.

Going to start the series soon. After watching so many mind twisting/forshadowing plots recently (狂飆, 流浪地球2 etc.), I took a break and watched 去有风的地方 based on your recommendation, it's such a sweet charming respite from the current pool of great but intense dramas. Now my senses have all heightened up for 三体。

I haven't watched Chinese shows in a long time, so it took me a few episodes to get used to the acting, mannerisms and other things that are different from the western shows. But what they did for that amount of money is incredible. The core cast is excellent, too, I love the bromance and all the characters from the flashbacks. Young Ye Wenjie better win a bunch of awards for her work here. So glad that they're staying true to the source material, this show has become my best example of why adaptations can absolutely work without major changes.

Thank you for a detailed, intelligent, commentary about this adaptation I think I will watch this to get the visuals and nuances before I attempt to read the book.

Good start to the year with 3 body, wandering earth and meet yourself all so good !

I read all 3 novels. What a wild ride! I’m still not over them. Now I can’t wait to see this drama.

I needed avenue Xs stamp of approval! Can’t wait to watch this!

Congratulations on 100k subscribers 🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊❤️

thank you for this review. looking forward to the second part :)

Again a great review by Avenue X. One thing that I heartily agree with is such a good casting! The scientist and the police guy chemistry is adorable and is not so defined in the book. And talking about the book, I am no sci-fi fan and had to listen to the English audiobook version of 3 body to understand what the drama is all about. An excellent drama!

binge watched ep12 to ep19 on the train and I was totally fascinated

you are so right about the music. wow.

Watching 3-Body on Rakuten Viki: my advice is remove all distractions and pay attention, watch closely and listen carefully. And I've only just finished episode 1. Thanks as always Av.X.

YAY I just asked for this on your last video and it's out!

Your reviews are always so articulated and poised, thanks a lot for the two part review! As a fan of Cixin's works and sci-fi in general, I'm so deeply satisfied with this series, It's like a dream come true

Loved the books, and love the series. They've done such a great job, I can't believe it has a low budget! Really hoping now that we get the second and third books in series form too.

I’m currently reading the first book and find it already wild. 😂 I’m so looking forward to watching this and am happy that it’s on Viki.

I'm loving it so far, seems pretty faithful to the book so far.

This is great. I am really digging this show and so far youtube's algorithm has only shown me Quinn's Ideas (I'm already a subscriber) reviewing it as well.

It really is such a beautiful adaptation, and you know, it’s tencent, so there was always like, a better than 50% chance that it wasn’t going to be good. I’m really grateful that it’s so good.

totally agree with the budgeting comparison of the threebody team n the typical Netflix production n alikes. I will wait for for the season 2 even it takes longer. It is better well made then a quick done ! And you did a Very good overall review btw.

I also watched to episode 15 before coming here to comment on your review. Like many others, I’m a huge fan of LCX’s work and have read the entire 3BP trilogy, along with some of his other works like Wandering Earth and Ball Lightning. The first few episodes were fantastic. I was impressed with the humanization of the characters, the music, and even the storytelling to allow us to understand why some of these scientists would have ended their lives. I especially enjoyed the bromance between the 2 male leads and how it contributes to their character development, especially for Wang Miao. I don’t mind them adding other characters and expanding some character roles (with a huge exception I’ll explain later). It makes sense that the police would have assistants and instead of writing in 10 side characters, they added a super human woman to do the job. And it also makes sense that Wang Miao would seek the assistance of astrophysicists to solve the 3bp. However, I have a huge problem with the expansion of the reporter’s role. For the amount of additional screen time she’s got, it is incredibly disproportionate to the incremental value she adds to the story. Wouldn’t they have spend more energy investigating Pan Han or Shen Yiufei instead? Come on, Shi Qiang is too much of an experienced cop to waste his time on her like that. It also wastes precious film time that can be used to explore Ye Wenji’s character, which brings me to my next point. So far, the show failed to capture the essence of Ye Wenji philosophical and psychological struggles. There is of course censorship issues, but maybe they can spend more screentime telling it a different way. She’s pretty much made up her mind about humanity before she got to the Red Coast in the book and I did not get that sense at all in the show. Sure, it showed some (albeit not all) of the horrible things that happened to her, but falls short of the character development that this show desperately needs for her character-she’s too smart for that simple portrayal. I have a feeling that these 2 problems are maybe related. Maybe they did show it but it got cut in censorship and now they had to fill it in with the reporter story. But I wish instead they could explore Pan Han’s deconstruction POV and Shen Yiufei’s reconstruction POV more than just telling us in their dialogues. I have more expectations for the Netflix adaptation. For 1 thing, they won’t have censorship issues and can explore all the political and social injustice issues. 2nd, they got the author to consult for them. The only problem is, they are gonna have to change many of the characters to other nationalities since it is not an all Asians cast. So the authenticity is going to be lost but hopefully the added diversity will be a force for good.

Very interesting story which is kinda too technical for some people on physics. One of its kind which is totally different from all other sci-fi story.

Thank you sooooo much for the excellent reviews and recommendations for show to look for . I'm American and most of our shows are just too much of everything (or absolute garbage, so l appreciate the "cleanness" of cdramas, kdramas and the like

I have not seen you this excited by a release since I started watching you a year ago. That means is a must for us except every time I want to read a book that was turned to drama, is only in Chinese.

I can feel your happyness

Omg chen xueran did the music for this show??? Okay now I have to watch it!!

i read the first book a few months ago and i'm half way through the second now. i just watched episode 18 last night. so very good. the best book to screen adaptation i've ever seen. along with the german tv show dark my best overall viewing experience of the last ten years. just incomparable what with the americans are capable of if you compare it the bastardisation of foundation or what netflix are likely to churn out.

I'm a huge fan of the novels and overall, this show is pretty good.

I am watching this drama very very slowly 😀 because it is a complex drama, especially when they started all the sci-fi talk

It certainly is one of the best sci-fi tv series that I ever watched..

Is there a place to watch beyond episode 12? The videos I've seen all stop at 12 for the free episodes. As more are released, will they be made free one by one?

Episode 5, 11 and 15 are my favorite so far.

Finally a Three Body review!

I'm really liking the drama, and I'm currently reading The dark forest, so I'm very much hyped! But I wanted to know your opinion on the drama using music from other Tv shows, like DARK, and movies like Arrival and Blade Runner 2049. Because sometimes this takes me out of the scene when I listen to a song that I recognize from another place lol Thank you for the review, I'm looking forward to your final thoughts.

Ive watched a few eps of english Netflix version and just a lil of this one. I really want yo get into it more but hate subtitles. Looks good and i can see they have a different spin on the story. I could enjoy both shows for sure.

I didn't know the novel so I wasn't gonna watch this, but damn now I'm so tempted lmao.

Totally love this drama . I think this is the best C-drama in 2023. 😍😍🤩🤩

Good moring AvenueX Happy Drama Watching have a great day!

Great review! I just finished the series and I loved it. I think it could have been about 5 episodes shorter, but over all it was really impressive. There is one addition to Shi Qiang that made me cringe...it was so unnecessary and untrue to his character. It was so bad I think the actor was about to laugh in the scene and I'll always think of it whenever I drink coffee haha

What I like the most is the host’s modern costume and look, very suitable for the theme of 3 body

Love your hair today

Can you do a video on easter eggs discovered in Wandering Earth 2?

I'm not familiar with the composer for this show but the music is good but it's seriously very inspired in the tv show Dark.

Tencent series is wonderful .

Still trying to decide whether to watch or read!

I could never get into the San Ti books because sci-fi is not for me (despite attempting twice) and the same is happening to me with this drama :/ It looks very good, the cast is amazing, you can feel the production quality, but the story is not my cup of tea. I highly recommend it to any sci-fi fan though. It deserves the good reviews.

Liu Ci Xin gives little love for his main charactors and he doesn't give a ****.

I agree this is a great adatation and I'm enjoying the heck out of it, as a book reader I do agree they should have cast a chubbier actor to play Shi Qiang but the actor they did cast does play the crap out of the character so I bought him as Shi Qiang, good job to him. To anyone who likes Scifi I totally recommend this show, you can really tell everyone in charge of this really get the books and understand how to change it to fit the themes and overall intention behind the books. I also have to say as someone who gets very depressed about the environment and climate change as a whole, this show will not do you any favors if you're like me, I've learned new things about the way we completely disrupt and destroy nature from this show which just makes me feel sad, don't even get me started on the scenes where they're all merrily cutting down a whole damn forest SIGH. I really hope they replanted a lot of trees or something.

Can you also do a wondering hearth 2 review? Some other KZfaqr called 懵姐 said it was too 老套煽情

I hope they dramatize the rest of the trilogy. This was done so well!

Can you do a first impression video on A League of Noblemen? Tencent dropped it out of nowhere 😂

It's no surprise to me that non western productions are making some of the best entertainment today and congrats to the Chinese production company for making this amazing zeries. It's only fitting that the Chinese give the proper level of respect and quality to this amazing IP - I'll watch the Netflix version only out of morbid curiosity as it is no doubt going to be a train wreck. Let's play a game - which character do you think will be the token LGBTQ?

The original book was published nearly 15 years ago, but still there are many viewers that have never watched it. The drama clearly focus on those who have read the book. I think the biggest imperfection of this series is it cannot be shorter due to regularity reasons, too many unnecessary story got added into the series. (But it only affect some of the middle 10 episodes, tthe last 8/10 episodes are just stunning, the fee I paid to watch the last 10 episodes (a week early) was the most valuable 18 Yuan I paid for years.) Any flaw in the 3D game rendering, can be explained as being visual from an early 2000s game XD // How on eatrth did YHKT achieve such low level with more than twice the buget?

In my opinion, the tempo of the series is a little bit too slow. They should have dubbed it and compressed it into a shorter version.

"Thought experiment in the form of a novel, doesn't give a s*** about characters" - that is so typical of scifi novels. Funny that it's the same in Chinese scifi

Sci-fi, astronomy... I am in. I am fully engrossed in this drama and following it with my fully devoted attention. Yet somehow some parts are of it felt rushed and they didn't explained much. May be its not necessary for Chinese viewers but as an international viewer I am feeling lost. Like what happened to YeWenjie's family. It was not clearly explained. Also the cultural revolution, I tried searching web, but couldn't fully understand the situation. Is it like the renaissance? Like the fight between science and church? I couldn't understand. If anyone can explain in layman's term, thanks in advance. So far I have many many question about the story and waiting for the answers by episode 30. The actor are all superb, not only the main characters, but the secondary ones as well. Whenever I can see the characters beyond the actors its an added bonus.

Simply put, Chinese science fiction television knocks Netflix and others like it, on its arse. Slowly maturing, intense performances, I learnt more about the Cultural Revolution in this series than any nonsense that can be found on Western tv. Thankfully, I can get a new person on the world.

"What she went through that eventually led her to basically destroy humanity" Ah, I came here after episode 15 and I still got some spoilers 😔

5:37 subtitle is wrong. it's "three suns" not "three sons"

question SPOILER what is the countdown lead up to? is it just to confuse wang?

Avenue X, have you done a review for Killer and Healer?? Please 🥺🥺🥺🥺

By the way, The League of Nobleman has been aired on WeTV..so far they released 10 ep already.. I'm on ep 5 and still enjoying the story. :)

The netflix adaptation will be a "LOL" level

So far, the drama depiction of the reply to the aliens might be different from the novel. I heard 1 alien warned the main female not to reply bec the aliens will cause human extinction, but the main female decided to reply anyway in spite of the warning from 1 alien.

Enjoy your reviews and this series. However, it is coming across as another Dark, a German series on Netflix, in theme and form. Althpugh, I am enjoying this much more. I hope they do the next two books!

the anime covers book 2 dark forest where the hero is a sociologist. I find the book 2 story dark forest too weird and too unbelievable.

What I’ve seen so far I love and to find out the budget was small for a tv series and seeing that VR episode 😲🤯 “Seen things that people wouldn’t believe Soon our planet will vanish I’ve known the future you people wouldn’t think of Soon the planet will be punished” THEEE BODY Re-TROS After hearing that on the credits to episode 6 ish and using Shazam to find out who it was buy and where to purchase it, it had to be bought 😂 🦃🦃🦃

I've been enjoying this show quite a bit, but there is one small thing that I find very weird. They never mention countries by their real name in the show, they just say "Country M in North America" or "Country T in Europe" etc. Is this some weird censorship thing? In the book countries were refered to by their real world names, like US, UK, Russia etc.

Without going into the debate about the cinematographic quality of this series, I have to say that they have taken me out of the story that I thought was science fiction. The "signals" that have taken me out of it have been progressive: a scientist praying to some divine entity... a note on a computer implying that all this is the work of "Mr. Will", and a few shots with a church in all its splendor in the background ended up turning the series from being science fiction to religious fantasy adorned with scientific data to offer a certain "seriousness" for me. I will wait for the conclusion of the series and its outcome to keep the eye on it or not. (It does not seem fair to me to blur the difference between science and religion through the assertion "religious faith in science"; science is the accumulation of knowledge through experience and religion is the denial of experience through faith to maintain their beliefs). I dont want to finish with negativity when i rarely write in this comment section,i want to thanks for the always well-done reviews in this channel that are a precious guide for my list to dramawatching

I just emailed you a link to a review I wrote. If you’re bored & have wayyy too much time on your hands (haha), I guess you could check it out. :)

i have watched 10 eps, good in general but quite draging, a lot of emotional shots, a bit "watery".

it depicts some environmental damages so those who are prone to depression should probably avoid the three body drama. 0 romance so some who only watch romance dramas are probably not watching this drama. Drama is very slow and when reaching ep 16, the story is sort of only beginning.

do ALCHEMY OF SOUL plzz

I just don't see how Netlfix version can top this one with all those bigotry western producers have in their mind. If you are a Chinese, you can tell from Shang-Chi ,Mulan and many of those China topic related movies even Kongfu panda, that the prejudice to Chinese doesn't change much for the last 100 years. And in this period of time when the all western world is evilizing China, I can't only expect nothing from the Netflix's adaptation.

I really want to love this series, but Gah! So slow, repetitive, and depressing. Hit me over the head with stylization. I get it! He’s stressed, he’s questioning his sanity. Enough with the tropey cinematic cues all ready. It just goes on and on.

so nobody will address the elephant in the room? the soundtrack in the first 4 episodes sounds eerily more than similar to a successful sci fi tv show from germany?....it gives the word "inspiration" a whoe new meaning

我认为于和伟演得并不够好。他没有演出带有军人气质的警察，而仅仅是警察。选角的失败。还不如让胡军来演。

I'm on episode 19 and am loving it!!!

Cut n cut kinda annoying

how funny you mock bad western adaptations, when you can see the music from "dark" show all over the place in the first episodes...hahahahahaha that is rich

Can you do a video on easter eggs discovered in Wandering Earth 2?