#Expanse season 5 episode 10 series#

#Expanse season 5 episode 10 series#

The first twenty minutes of “Nemesis Games” offer up the real goods, as the varying threads of the splintered series finally converge on the Chetzemoka, where Naomi has been hammering away at a water pipe for as-yet-unrevealed reasons. So it’s oyedeng to Alex Kamal, Texan-drawled Martian pilot, and hello to a new status quo. It’s also a case study in ‘what should have been,’ as “Nemesis Games” visibly suffers from the awkward consequences of having to write out a character (and actor) in the wake of Cas Anvar‘s sexual misconduct allegations. Here, in “Nemesis Games,” we get the kind of season finale the show used to get before they went to a one-book-per-season model in the Amazon era a miniclimax, resulting in a small regrouping before setting up the real stakes in season six. Apart from a laser focus on Naomi’s ( Dominique Tipper) and Amos’ ( Wes Chatham) stories, the latter of which was closed out in the exciting, albeit predictable, previous episode, much of the show’s characters have been in a holding pattern for several episodes, waiting on their next move or in transit to some other place. The first four episodes are a slow-building escalation to Marco Inaros’ ( Keon Alexander) master plan - the destruction of Earth via a cluster of stealth-coated asteroids, meant to decimate the Inners who’ve oppressed the Belt for so long - with the rest of the season exploring our characters reeling from the aftermath of that decision. The fifth season of The Expanse has at once felt like a return to form for the show and a set of episodes fraught with potential energy, particularly in its latter half.