Netflix’s 3 Body Problem, X-Men ’97, Halo’s season 2 finale, and more new TV this week
This week’s TV is a sort of choose-your-IP-adaptation adventure: The X-Men of the ’90s returns, complete with nostalgic animation vibes, in X-Men ’97. If you’re looking for an alternate-timeline version of a classic video game (and a kind of silly one at that), there’s the finale of Halo season 2.
Then there’s 3 Body Problem, Netflix’s big-budget adaptation of the blockbuster science fiction novel of the same name (and its follow-ups). As our executive editor Matt Patches put it in his review, 3 Body Problem “feels epic in scale while probing the messiness of human instinct.”
Among these, there aren’t really any wrong choices; it’s all TV, it’s all a good time. And it’s not even the limit: There’s still ongoing TV, and a few more new options. Here’s all the notable TV premieres and finales this week.
Genre: Big-budget sci-fi
Release date: March 21, with all eight episodes
Showrunners/creators: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo
Cast: Eiza González, Liam Cunningham, Benedict Wong, and more
Physics is breaking, and it’s the end of the world as we know it — at least, unless a group of brilliant scientists can join forces with a shadowy detective to expose the greatest threat to humanity in all of history.
That’s about as deep as I can go without spoiling it, but the other headlines for this show are: It’s from the showrunners of Game of Thrones and The Terror season 2, and based on the hit sci-fi book by Cixin Liu.
Genre: Throwback superhero cartoon
Release date: March 20
Head writer: Beau DeMayo
Cast: Ray Chase, Jennifer Hale, Alison Sealy-Smith, and more
X-Men ’97 will be continuing the story from the X-Men: The Animated Series show of the ’90s. The animation — a throwback in style and tone — will be picking up with your favorite X-Men (or, at least, the main ones) after the death of Professor X.
Genre: Video game adaptation
Release date: March 21
Showrunner/creator: David Wiener
Cast: Pablo Schreiber, Bokeem Woodbine, Natasha McElhone, and more
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