Home > The Expanse > Season 1 « TV Series Page The Expanse: Season 1 (2015) SEASON: Season 1 Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Want to see Episode List Season 1 The Expanse Critics Consensus The Expanse blends sci-fi elements and detective noir into a visually compelling whole, though it takes a few episodes for the story to capture viewers' intrigue. 77% TOMATOMETER Critic Ratings: 44 95% Audience Score User Ratings: 1925 See score details Rate And Review Submit review Want to see Edit Submit review Super Reviewer Verified Super Reviewer Verified Edit Super Reviewer Rate this season Oof, that was Rotten. Meh, it passed the time. It’s good – I’d recommend it. Awesome! So Fresh: Absolute Must See! What did you think of this tv season? (optional) Submit Continue Super Reviewer Step 2 of 2 How did you buy your ticket? Let's get your review verified. 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Episodes 1 Dulcinea Air date: Dec 14, 2015 A hardened detective begins an off-the-book investigation of a missing heiress in the series premiere of this futuristic thriller; at the same time, the captain of the ice-freighter Canterbury inquires into a distress call from a mysterious derelict ship. More 2 The Big Empty Air date: Dec 15, 2015 Holden and his crew fight for survival in a badly damaged shuttle; on Ceres, Miller uncovers clues to Julie Mao; and on Earth, UN Deputy Undersecretary Crisjen Avasarala interrogates a belter terrorist. More 3 Remember the Cant Air date: Dec 22, 2015 Holden and the crew slowly start to turn on one another after they are taken prisoner aboard the Martian navy flagship the Donnager. Elsewhere, Miller deals with rioters on Ceres; and Avasarala engages in a nasty game of politics with an old friend. More 4 CQB Air date: Dec 29, 2015 Holden and his crew find themselves in the middle of a desperate battle when mysterious warships attack and board the Donnager; at the same time, Miller is in the middle of pursuing the Julie Mao investigation when his partner Havelock goes missing. More 5 Back to the Butcher Air date: Jan 5, 2016 Holden and the crew make a deal with an unlikely ally on Tycho station; at the same time, Miller's obsession with conspiracy theories and the disappearance of Julie Mao continues to grow. More 6 Rock Bottom Air date: Jan 12, 2016 Miller comes across revealing information on a hidden data cube; at the same time, Holden and the crew are surprised by their host's secret agenda. More 7 Windmills Air date: Jan 19, 2016 Holden and crew come to realize that they're not alone on the Rocinante and end up facing a Martian Marine blockade; at his bleakest point, Miller finds a new reason to keep going; and Avasarala visits Holden's family in Montana. More 8 Salvage Air date: Jan 26, 2016 The Rocinante crew come across a derelict vessel that holds a potentially devastating secret; a horrifying discovery is made after Holden finally crosses paths with Miller in Eros; and Avasarala receives some crushing news back on Earth. More 9 Critical Mass; Leviathan Wakes Air date: Feb 2, 2016 In the Season 1 finale, a flashback to Julie's origin story reveals her trajectory. Meanwhile, Holden and Miller finally meet and team up to get to the bottom of the strange emergency situation happening on Eros. But they must overcome incredible odds if they hope to live to fight another day. More 10 Leviathan Wakes Air date: Feb 2, 2016 In the Season 1 finale, a flashback to Julie's origin story reveals her trajectory. Meanwhile, Holden and Miller finally meet and team up to get to the bottom of the strange emergency situation happening on Eros. But they must overcome incredible odds if they hope to live to fight another day. More The Expanse: Season 1 Photos View All Photos (58) Tv Season Info Based on the series of novels by James S.A.Corey, this space opera is set 200 years in a future where humanity has colonized the solar system, which is divided and on the brink of war. Season 1 revolves around the search for Julie Mao (Florence Faivre), the high-society daughter of one of Earth's most powerful businessmen. Having cut ties with his wealth and support, she started a new life in the Asteroid Belt, where she worked tirelessly for the betterment of the disenfranchised "belters"...right up until the day of her disappearance. Joe Miller (Thomas Jane), a hardened detective with the private security firm Star Helix, is assigned to find Julie, who he comes to believe could be the key to several mysteries. His story intertwines with that of two other characters: James Holden (Steven Strait), a rogue ship's captain involved in a planet-threatening accident; and U.N. undersecretary Chrisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo), who's willing to go to any lengths for what she deems is right. As these three individuals navigate the dangerous politics of Earth, Mars and a quasi-terrorist organization known as OPA, they find themselves unraveling a vast conspiracy that threatens all of humanity. Cas Anvar, Dominique Tipper, Wes Chatham and Paulo Constanzo also star. Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy Network: SyFy (Seasons 1-3); Amazon Studios Premiere Date: Dec 14, 2015 Exec. Producers: Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus, Naren Shankar, Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Jason Brown, Sean Daniel, Sharon Hall Cast Thomas Jane as Detective Miller Steven Strait as Holden Shohreh Aghdashloo as Chrisjen Avasarala Cas Anvar as Alex Kamal Dominique Tipper as Naomi Nagata Wes Chatham as Amos Burton Florence Faivre as Julie Mao Jonathan Banks as Executive Officer Paulo Costanzo as Shed Garvey Jay Hernandez as Dimitri Havelock Show More Cast News & Interviews for The Expanse: Season 1 7 TV Shows You Should Binge-Watch This December Staff Picks: 13 TV Shows from 2018 You Should Binge-Watch Right Now 12 TV Shows You Should Binge-Watch This April View All The Expanse: Season 1 News Episodes 1 Dulcinea Air date: Dec 14, 2015 A hardened detective begins an off-the-book investigation of a missing heiress in the series premiere of this futuristic thriller; at the same time, the captain of the ice-freighter Canterbury inquires into a distress call from a mysterious derelict ship. More 2 The Big Empty Air date: Dec 15, 2015 Holden and his crew fight for survival in a badly damaged shuttle; on Ceres, Miller uncovers clues to Julie Mao; and on Earth, UN Deputy Undersecretary Crisjen Avasarala interrogates a belter terrorist. More 3 Remember the Cant Air date: Dec 22, 2015 Holden and the crew slowly start to turn on one another after they are taken prisoner aboard the Martian navy flagship the Donnager. Elsewhere, Miller deals with rioters on Ceres; and Avasarala engages in a nasty game of politics with an old friend. More 4 CQB Air date: Dec 29, 2015 Holden and his crew find themselves in the middle of a desperate battle when mysterious warships attack and board the Donnager; at the same time, Miller is in the middle of pursuing the Julie Mao investigation when his partner Havelock goes missing. More 5 Back to the Butcher Air date: Jan 5, 2016 Holden and the crew make a deal with an unlikely ally on Tycho station; at the same time, Miller's obsession with conspiracy theories and the disappearance of Julie Mao continues to grow. More 6 Rock Bottom Air date: Jan 12, 2016 Miller comes across revealing information on a hidden data cube; at the same time, Holden and the crew are surprised by their host's secret agenda. More 7 Windmills Air date: Jan 19, 2016 Holden and crew come to realize that they're not alone on the Rocinante and end up facing a Martian Marine blockade; at his bleakest point, Miller finds a new reason to keep going; and Avasarala visits Holden's family in Montana. More 8 Salvage Air date: Jan 26, 2016 The Rocinante crew come across a derelict vessel that holds a potentially devastating secret; a horrifying discovery is made after Holden finally crosses paths with Miller in Eros; and Avasarala receives some crushing news back on Earth. More 9 Critical Mass; Leviathan Wakes Air date: Feb 2, 2016 In the Season 1 finale, a flashback to Julie's origin story reveals her trajectory. Meanwhile, Holden and Miller finally meet and team up to get to the bottom of the strange emergency situation happening on Eros. But they must overcome incredible odds if they hope to live to fight another day. More 10 Leviathan Wakes Air date: Feb 2, 2016 In the Season 1 finale, a flashback to Julie's origin story reveals her trajectory. Meanwhile, Holden and Miller finally meet and team up to get to the bottom of the strange emergency situation happening on Eros. But they must overcome incredible odds if they hope to live to fight another day. More Critic Reviews for The Expanse Season 1 All Critics (44) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (10) Expanse is so expansive, it's hard to pin down - well, anything... Looks great. But what's going on? Dec 14, 2015 | Rating: B- | Full Review… Diane Werts Newsday Top Critic Granted nothing here feels new or pressing, or as intense as an episode of the aforementioned Game of Thrones. But if sweeping, beautiful scenes and expansive stories that take episodes to piece together are your thing, you'll be set with The Expanse. Dec 14, 2015 | Full Review… Amber Dowling TheWrap Top Critic The Expanse has a few tricks up its sleeve. They include some nifty camera work and a deft cliffhanger that make it the... captivating. Dec 14, 2015 | Full Review… Sarah Rodman Boston Globe Top Critic There's a lot to get a grip on, and it might help to have read the books. If I tried to explain in full, we'd be here all day, and I couldn't do it anyway. Dec 14, 2015 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review… Gail Pennington St. Louis Post-Dispatch Top Critic The Expanse is a discussion of political power and a nice shoot-'em-up actioner all at the same time. Dec 14, 2015 | Full Review… Tirdad Derakhshani Philadelphia Inquirer Top Critic The problem isn't with the overall look of Syfy's The Expanse. Production values are first-rate through and through. But having little or no earthly idea of what's going on can be a problem. Dec 11, 2015 | Rating: C | Full Review… Ed Bark Uncle Barky Top Critic The little details of this universe are so finely rendered that they become stories unto themselves. May 22, 2018 | Full Review… Annalee Newitz Ars Technica Their adventures are action-packed but their relationships with one another make every episode compelling. Jun 28, 2017 | Full Review… Eric Watson Polygon The Expanse is such a wonderfully realised, affectingly believable, deceptively smart, and really damn engrossing show that it's far too easy to forget that you're watching a piece of speculative fiction. Jan 20, 2017 | Full Review… David Houghton SFX Magazine Occasionally the storytelling becomes bogged down in information overload and some secondary characters seem to have been generated by rolling dice, but mostly The Expanse delivers an action-packed and thought-provoking first season. Jan 10, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… Dave Golder SFX Magazine By the end of the season, you realize this is not the same show you thought you were getting into. It's much more interesting and expansive. Jan 9, 2017 | Full Review… Sean Axmaker Seanax.com All in all, The Expanse is a missed opportunity, at least based on the pilot. This could have been more appealing with a stylized visual approach or a novel tone but instead it's sci-fi-by-numbers. Dec 14, 2015 | Rating: 4/10 | Full Review… Alee Karim Under the Radar View All Critic Reviews (44) Audience Reviews for The Expanse: Season 1 Jul 02, 2020 Great introduction to the series. Even better things come later. ukasz J Jun 22, 2020 The first season of this show was a bit of a struggle for me. Just a lot going on - wasn't really able to get in to it until the end of the season. The only reason that I pushed through was because of the extremely positive reviews for the series - especially seasons 2,3,4. It gets better* CHRISTINA B Jun 21, 2020 Best Sci-Fi show ever. Your next binge is here!!! There is something in EVERY episode that keeps you on the edge of the couch.... this is probably my favorite show of all time. Kalyn M May 26, 2020 Don't start with this series! I wasted 4 season on this mess. It's a terrible story that's going absolutely nowhere. I started watching because there was no "fantasy faster-than-light travel", no warp drive. I liked that they relied on known science … until the revelation of magical proto-molecules and floating stargates (stargate idea stolen straight out of the 1994 movie and subsequent TV series). I stuck with it hoping the story would go somewhere … nothing. What a waste of time, 40 hours of my life I'll never get back. Craig C May 20, 2020 Probably the best Sci-Fi series out there Tony D May 18, 2020 Absolutely the BEST!!! Andrew G May 04, 2020 Unlikable characters and wooden actors, derivative plot and horrible world-building. Avasarala and Dectective Miller are the only thing that are worth-while watching, and in the series' defense much of the fault for the plot and world-building lies with the books. Good science fiction series are hard to come by, and this isn't one of them; but I believe that explains how this mediocre mess gained any kind of following. Bart M Apr 21, 2020 Lots of fun, stick with this, it starts out slowly, but it picks up and takes you on a great ride. Every season is better than the next. Christopher N Apr 21, 2020 Very good exciting and captivating just good sci-fi. Keep it up ! Ace W Apr 15, 2020 I personally believe the settlement of our solar system and mining of the asteroid belt and Mars is in the near future of humanity. We are on the very edge of that change. This gives a look at that future, which I don't expect to live to see myself, but I have full faith and expectation of its coming. Interesting characters, and very suspenseful. 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