So more out of hope than expectation I watched the first episode of the third series of "Star Trek: Picard" yesterday.
I seem to be one of the few people who actually liked the first season (the second was okay but I always found stories about Q to be a bit too silly and lazy).
As far as TV science fiction goes, most of it is silly escapism - and there's nothing wrong with that - but I've often wished somebody would adapt some of the better books for TV or film. Well, they did. Probably one of the best TV science fiction series I've seen in ages was
The Expanse (Prime), which, even though I'd read the books first, I found very enjoyable. For once they managed to stick pretty closely to the books, although they only hint at some things that are properly explained in the books (like how come there seems to be reasonable gravity on asteroids). I've also yet to talk to anybody who's watched that didn't like it - no doubt somebody here will disagree.
Unfortunately they didn't finish the whole book series, though.
Also the first season of
The Peripheral wasn't at all bad. Prime again, and from a William Gibson book (although, from memory, I don't think the plot was very similar, they just seem to have taken the main idea and characters).
Apparently Netflix is adapting
The Three Body Problem, which is the first part of an excellent trilogy by Cixin Liu. No idea if the adaptation will be any good or if they'll have the courage to do the whole trilogy (which would take us literally to the end of the universe and beyond).
