However, long stretches of characters explaining trigonometry would not look great on TV.
We watch TV to unwind not to become better people.
It could have also benefited from a bit more nuance in its depictions of its main characters.
Zine Tseng in 3 Body Problem (2024) | IMDb
To be fair, though, the show didnt have much to go on.
It even had to invent some characters to make up for the novels dearth of them.
Thats how characters like the wealthy Jack Rooney (John Bradley) came to life.
The other is Jin Cheng (Jess Hong).
In any case, shes depicted as an untrustworthy, incompetent, irrational liability.
The series, thankfully, has been stripped of that sexism.
Rosalind Chao in 3 Body Problem (2024) | IMDb
Ye Wenjie is portrayed as a principled anti-hero rather than a hothead devoid of logic.
In fact, one could argue that the men of this series are the silly ones.
Of course, thats partly because there are simply more women in this series.
(By episode five,Jin Cheng is the shows closest thing to a protagonist).
More likely, its since this show was made for an American audience.
In China, after all, feminism tends to look a lot different.
This usually results in the government deleting their accounts.
Thus, feminists resort to using code words such asmitu(literally, rice bunny)to circumvent this.
Overall, this adds up to an environment that is not very friendly to the fight for female equality.
Netflix doesnt need another controversy after airing all of those problematic comedy specials that its become known for.
Now lets just hope that it gets things right again for3 Body Problem 2.
