In a future where the human expansion in space has produced new races - a consequence of the need to adapt to the environment - three seemingly unrelated people discover different sub-networks of a complicated conspiracy.
Sci-Fi fans all over, tired of all the meaningless examples of the genre, can finally enjoy a proper production, a slight reminiscence of a modernized Battlestar Galactica. It does not follow in that one's footsteps in using the style of documentary/reality-show filming in order to instill the impression of real but uses a lot more modern techniques and many quality special effects managing to often impress with very well framed and credible scenes either in space or in premises or out in nature on planet Earth. Through the three already mentioned characters, the show manages to make use of very different styles of films - detective, epic and political films - in parallel, beautifully combined and it doesn't rush in revealing what each of the three ways will get to, thus enhancing its charm and the intrigue.
The new races make sense, with two somewhat predictable ones (the Earthians and the very military Martian) but with a very interesting and complex third, on which it seems that the writers have concentrated all their creativity, namely the Belter race, who are descendants of the people sent to work in mining of planets/satellites with very low gravity. The latter gave the opportunity to create some very colorful and interesting characters throughout the (now) 3 seasons and a new language - some kind of English pidgin.
With: Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Thomas Jane, Cas Anvar, Dominique Tipper, Wes Chatam, Frankie Adams, Cara Gee, Elizabeth Mitchell, David Strathairn
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