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Hey, man, I'm Kevin Smith,

and today I wanna tell you
all about "The Expanse."

Now, it's a sci-fi show

that's written by some of the
smartest people out there, man,

so it makes sense that they hired
a very not smart person

to come in and recap it for you
in layman's terms.

Now this show is emotional.
It's full of action...

Alex, go around the asteroid.
Run 'em, now!

...and super scientifically accurate.

So when I was asked to recap
the first three seasons,

I said I'm only gonna do it

if I can get with the same
high-caliber effects

that they use on the show.

You guys are gonna make me look
like I'm in the show, right?

You're gonna put in the effects?

Like I'm not just standing
on a green screen for nothing, correct?

Yeah, we'll add some graphics.

Some. All right.

Just... replace the green.

I don't wanna look like an asshole here.

So anyway, using the same effects
that they use on the show,

this is gonna allow me to
conjure hyper-realistic models.

Look at that: a planet, asteroids,
and even zero G.

Bring on the juice!

So strap in.

Spoilers, just putting that out there.

All right, man, you got three factions.

You got Earth, Mars, and the Belters.

Now first let's talk about Earth.

Earth you've probably heard of,

but in the future, shit has changed, man!

Earth is kind of a bummer due to things
like climate change and overpopulation,

so they start colonizing other planets
for their resources and their land.

And they're all governed
by a single government,

a 'roided up version
of the United Nations.

So a bunch of engineers, they go to Mars
to make it humanity's second home.

It's like a fixer-upper.

But you know, the solar system
is just really gentrifying at this point.

They advance technologically,
building cool spaceships,

and decide they should secede from Earth,

becoming their own sovereign planet.

Shit.

Now after that, you got yourself
the Belters, man.

They live in the asteroid belt,
hence the name.

They got their own special language.

They got badass helmets.

They got obligatory neck tattoos.
They are so metal!

Man, when you see 'em it's like...

Helmet, helmet.

But Belters have it pretty rough.

Water is way scarce,
so they're all thirsty as hell,

and most live in poverty,

while the fruits of their labor are
dragged back to Earth or Mars.

So a bunch of Belters are
like, fuck this...

This some real bullshit.

...and form the Outer Planetary Alliance,
or the OPA, to battle inequality.

You and I both want the same thing:
to do right by our people.

But now it's devolved
into a wishy-washy network

of criminals and fucking terrorists.

So, yeah, shit is volatile.

One spark could ignite
an interplanetary war

between Earth, Mars, and the Belt.

Season 1.

Okay, this guy, Joe Miller,
he's a Belter detective.

And you know he's a detective

because look at the hat. See the hat?

What's the deal with the hat?

Now who's Joe Miller?

Here you go.

So he agrees to track down
a missing girl named Julie Mao

for her very rich parents.

Say no more.

But in New York, Chrisjen Avasarala, U.N.
bigwig and diplomacy ninja...

With all due respect, madam,
where are you going with this?

Wherever I goddamn like.

She interrogates an OPA operative
about contraband stealth technology.

What was it for?

Meanwhile, an ice hauler...

that's a ship that hauls
ice, go figure...

named the Canterbury, gets blown up...

...by a mysterious stealth ship,

stranding a bunch of
important characters, man:

the inconveniently moral
Executive Officer Jim Holden...

...genius engineer, Naomi Nagata...

I didn't exactly sign on
to the Cant to make friends.

Why did you sign on?

So I wouldn't have to have
conversations like this one.

...space cowboy, Alex Kamal...

I just decided to come on down
and rescue y'all.

...and pragmatic mechanic, Amos Burton.

There you go. Now you just walk around
like you're in pumps.

How do you know
what it's like to walk in pumps?

I didn't always work in space.

They're rescued by Fred Johnson,
the leader of the OPA.

I don't know who you are.

You have my solemn promise
that you will not be harmed.

He's building a generation ship
for the Mormons.

There are Mormons in the future!

So it's like floating Space-Utah.

The crew of four agrees to work
with Johnson and the OPA,

but this makes them targets for the U.N.

So, to literally fly under the radar,

they name their new ride the Rocinante,

which is Spanish for
inconspicuous spaceship.

The Roci crew discovers the stealth ship
that blew up their OG ice hauler

and finds its reactor covered
in some weird-ass goo,

which is called the protomolecule.

Also, one of its shuttles is missing.
Say what?

Somebody got away.

A distress call makes it seem like
it's some guy named Lionel Polanski.

Whoever was on this ship
was headed to Eros.

If this Lionel Polanski is gonna be
anywhere, it's gonna be there.

The Rocinante crew heads to Eros,

an asteroid in the Belt,
to find this Polanski guy.

While tracking Polanski,

Holden and his team
are ambushed by U.N. Black Ops.

It's a firefight!

Things look really bad, man,
but they're rescued by...

You guessed it...

the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Shit just follow you around,
don't it, kid?

I mean, Detective Miller...

who has figured out
that Polanski is Julie Mao!

Together they find Julie dead.

It seems like she's been infected
by the protomolecule

from the stealth ship.

Miller and the Roci crew go,
"Aw, rats," and they just leave.

A group loyal to Julie's father
finds her body,

and because he's like dad of the year,

they harvest her infected blood

and place the whole asteroid on lockdown

and infect its population
with the protomolecule.

Aw, shit!

Back on Earth, Avasarala
works her diplomatic magic

to figure out what the hell
is goin' on, man?

Season 1 ends with Mao
and company turning Eros

into the most infected thing ever, man,

and the crew barely escapes
with their lives.

Holy shit, that's intense, man.
I need a minute.

Can I get a coffee, in zero-G?

Cover me!

Okay now, in Season 2,
the Cold War heats up,

despite Avasarala's best efforts.

The Roci crew, the good guys,

decide someone should do something
about protomolecule-infected Eros.

Space honor demands it!

Doing nothing is just as bad
as doing the wrong thing.

But how do you neutralize
an entire infected asteroid, man?

Why, you'd need to plant
demolition charges

to implode the asteroid,
then push it into the Sun,

with some kind of massive ship
the size of...

...I don't know, Space-Utah?

But when Miller goes down
to place the charges,

one gets damaged, man.

Get to cover immediately!

Goofin' the whole dang plan.

Miller nobly decides
to make a hero's sacrifice

and stay on Eros to ensure
the charges go off as planned.

He bravely watches as Space-Utah
approaches and then...

...glides right by.

What the hell just happened?

Except Holden and the crew confirm
that Eros somehow maneuvered

to avoid the impact. The fuck?

And now, infected-ass Eros
is on a collision course, with what?

- You guessed it.
- With Earth.

So they shoot missiles at it, man,
but it goes stealth.

Yes, an asteroid infected with space goo
has made itself stealth.

- Earth is...
- More or less fucked.

Or is it? Because Miller decides
to blow Eros up from the inside.

He carries his bomb to the core,

gets ready to meet his maker,
and discovers what?

Julie?

Julie Mao, holy crap!

What the fuck?

So Miller has one of those
heart-to-infected-hearts with proto-Julie,

convincing her to direct Eros
away from the Earth

toward uninhabited Venus. Fuck Venus!

Damn!

Okay, with Miller and
the protomolecule destroyed,

the Roci crew launches the final
remaining protomolecule sample

- into the sun.
- It's done.

And that's the end of that.

Maybe.

Meanwhile, on Jupiter's moon Ganymede,

U.N. and Mars communications
inexplicably go dead...

...just like that.
Each side blames the other,

and the situation devolves
into a full-fledged battle, man.

After the battle, a Martian Marine
named Bobbie Draper,

the number one badass,

awakens to find her entire team
massacred...

and looming over her
is a goddamn proto-monster, man!

Never good!

While everyone blames each other
for this clusterfuck,

the Roci crew learns of
a protomolecule signal

that came from Ganymede.

There's a protomolecule
on Ganymede station.

We go there, find it, and shut it down.

Information that would have been helpful
before the brutal massacre of thousands.

Yeah.

Holden sneaks into Ganymede
and makes a huge discovery, man.

Mao and his evil buddy, Dr. Strickland,

are infecting Belter children
with the protomolecule,

to create human-proto hybrids.

Now that's a villain, man! Bravo!

For screenwriting,
not for his activities, man.

Boo on that.

Avasarala confronts Mao,

and Mao asks her to meet him on the ship.

Everyone knows it's a trap, man.

This guy knows it's a trap.

This guy knows it's a trap.

Hell, this guy knows it's a trap.

But she goes anyway
and takes Draper with her.

Okay, the Roci crew is psyched
to get the hell out of Ganymede,

until they discover
there's a proto-monster

stowed away in their cargo hold.

What the fuck is that?

Aw, shit!

Now the crew realizes
that the proto-monster

feeds off radiation, man,

so they lure it out into space

by exposing the core
of a nuclear warhead,

as you do, and they roast it!

Fry!

Avasarala's meeting with Mao
goes about as well as expected.

Get down!

But she's saved by Draper
in her awesome battle suit.

If anyone else but me
comes through that door,

you put them on the ground.

Naomi confesses to Holden

that she never destroyed
the protomolecule sample.

She faked the launch...

...and gave the sample to the OPA

to level the playing field
between Earth and Mars.

What did you do?

I gave the protomolecule to Fred Johnson.

Maybe they should teach
the ship engineers about hubris.

Quick timeout!

Can I stretch or something?

Like, my mouth is tired.

All right, now in Season 3...

one of the proto-infected children
tells Mao and Dr. Strickland

the work on Venus is almost complete.

What are you building?

Work, finish soon, soon, soon!

Meanwhile, the OPA
is officially recognized

as the legitimate government
of the Belters.

Johnson makes his second in command,

the incredibly badass Camina Drummer,

the captain of their new flagship,
the Behemoth,

which is actually Space-Utah
with a major upgrade.

AKA, it's got guns now.

Meanwhile on Venus, a humongous
protomolecule structure

lifts out of the crater...

...flies out into space...

...and settles past Uranus.

That is some sweet parkin' job.

And everyone's all like...

- What?
- The fuck is that?

There, it unfurls and forms
a gigantic glowing ring called...

...the Ring.

Kinda makes me want a donut.

Holden starts having visions
of our old hero, Miller.

He's back, man! Miller calls
himself the Investigator now.

Which is confusing, because he still
has the same detective hat.

Mao's other daughter,

sick of not being talked about
for like two full seasons,

frames the Roci crew
for destroying a science ship.

What in God's name have you been doing?

I have to do this.

Belters are the only legitimate
benefactors of the Ring.

- What the fuck did you do?
- It's not me, Alex.

This makes them the Nickelback
of the galaxy,

and tons of missiles are fired at them.

In a desperate move,
the Roci heads into the Ring,

even though it's super dangerous.

This is our only way out.

The only other time a ship entered it,

the pilot got turned
into a salty pudding.

But Investigator Miller tells Holden
they'll be fine, man...

...if they aren't going too fast.

Time warps as they approach the Ring,

bringing the missile behind them
to a near standstill as they enter.

So now everybody heads into the Ring...
Mars, Earth, and the OPA...

because the only force
stronger than gravity...

...is FOMO, man.

There's only so much booze
and fuckin' you can buy.

Holden heads to the station
at the center of the Ring

to investigate what the hell
is goin' on, man.

He gets fired on
by Martian Black Ops Teams,

which the station registers as a threat.

And as a safety measure,

The Ring slows everybody down
even further.

Classic Space Ring.

Now that's great for Holden,

but bad for a bunch
of people on the ships

not wearing their seat belts,

including Drummer, who gets pinned
under a piece of equipment

with her first officer.

She takes the bulk of the weight
so someone could command the ship.

That someone is Ashford,

which sucks for reasons
we're gonna learn about in a second.

Holden explains
what he learned in a vision,

that the Ring was created
by a mysterious civilization,

as a sort of celestial freeway.

But then this mysterious civilization
was wiped out by something.

The Ring doesn't mean them any harm.

But Ashford takes this as cause
for a preemptive strike

because he's the kind of guy
who gets bit by a dog

and then nukes a petting zoo.

Anyway, it looks like the station

is about to wipe out
the whole solar system.

The station will kill
everyone and everything

on both sides of the Ring.

Ashford thinks they just haven't
blown it up good enough yet.

He fires off a laser, but it misses.

And right before the station
kills everybody in the system,

Mao's other daughter swoops in
and saves the day...

...powering down Ashford's ship

and winning for team "Let's not
piss off this giant Ring thing."

The station decides humans
aren't a threat to it at all,

'cause, yeah we're mostly
a threat to ourselves.

Guess it worked.

The station then reactivates
the alien transit network,

bringing 1,300 Rings online.

But, and I ask this in the most
scientific way possible,

what the fuck is on the other side
of those Rings, man?

Is it whatever killed the aliens?

Can the Roci crew trust
their new friends?

And will Avasarala make a good
secretary-general of the U.N.?

I mean, yeah, probably.

That one isn't really
such a mystery, man.

Let's give them a push.

- Hey, hey!
- What did you do?

Oh, boy! There it is.

That's barely scratching the surface

of the first three seasons
of "The Expanse."

So now you're ready
to jump into Season 4,

which drops on Amazon Prime Video
on Friday, December 13th, man.

Which, not gonna lie...

the date doesn't sound great
for the Roci crew.

But check out this scene
which has a real surprise.

You'll see what I'm saying.

You know what, guys? I'm good.
I'm going back in the ship.