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All Your Burning Questions About 3 Body Problem, Answered
Who are these aliens and what do they want?
Benedict Wong’s intelligence officer, Da Shi, is investigating these deaths, though you’re not quite sure who he’s working for, while a set of young scientists in London, nicknamed the Oxford Five (Jovan Adepo, Eiza González, Jess Hong, Alex Sharp, and GOT ’s John Bradley), also band together to try to figure out what’s going on. If you’ve read Liu’s series, a lot of that description will sound familiar, as will the show’s opening set piece: a flashback to Beijing’s Tsinghua University during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, where the daughter of a prominent physicist (Zine Tseng plays the young Ye Wenjie) watches her father get killed by Red Guards. A version of the show could try to engage with London as a fading colonial power center, but mostly Benioff, Weiss, and Woo treat it as a neutral location where a bunch of people from different backgrounds might’ve all ended up and become friends.
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