3 Body Problem

Across continents and decades, the series follows five brilliant friends whose early collaborations yield discoveries that defy established science. What starts as curiosity-driven research soon produces anomalies too persistent to ignore, and small laboratory puzzles bloom into phenomena with far-reaching consequences. The narrative shifts between intimate personal scenes and sweeping institutional responses, as relationships, loyalties and rivalries shape how information is handled. As clues accumulate, an existential threat becomes clearer, but the show keeps the origin and full implications of that threat concealed, focusing on how people and institutions respond under mounting uncertainty.

Premiering in 2024, the television adaptation was developed from Liu Cixin's novel by Alexander Woo, D. B. Weiss and David Benioff, and features Jovan Adepo, Rosalind Chao, Liam Cunningham, Eiza González and Jess Hong in key roles.

Critical and audience response has leaned positive, with a viewer average around 7.5 out of 10 from over a thousand votes. Reviewers praised its willingness to tackle big scientific ideas alongside political maneuvering, and noted recurring themes of ethics in research, the friction between national agendas and scientific truth, and the strain placed on friendships when stakes climb to a planetary level.

The series reinvigorated mainstream interest in Chinese science fiction and prompted widespread online discussion about adaptation choices. Fans parsed differences from the novel, debated the scientific plausibility of on-screen phenomena, and shared visual highlights and theories across social platforms, making the show a frequent subject of genre conversation.

Awards attention has been modest so far; the show did not dominate major industry prize lists at release. Still, its production design, visual effects and several performances drew notice in critics' roundups and genre-focused coverage, and it continued to appear in end-of-year discussions about ambitious science fiction on television.