A couple of weeks back, Netflix released some , announcing that it’s sci-fi adaptation had been renewed—not for a specific run of episodes or seasons, but until series creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss could finish the story they were telling.
(Adapted from Liu Cixin’s best-selling trilogy of novels, which track humanity as it gets in over its head in a dark and hostile universe.) Which was nice and all—nobody likes making the temporal and emotional commitment required to really lose yourself in a TV show, especially one with as many moving parts as , only to have the thing get yanked away before it’s done—but a little ambiguous in terms of how much actual TV show fans could expect. Said ambiguity has now , as Netflix confirmed during its Emmys-focused “FYSEE” event—the name took us a second, until we realized it was a fairly annoying play on “For Your Consideration/FYC”—on Friday.
The streamer confirmed that will run for three seasons, with each season, presumably, mapping on to one of Liu’s books. The show has already gone out of its way to seed some of this stuff in its first season, though, including introducing the central conceit of the second novel, : The idea that, given that humanity is facing a potentially genocidal opponent capable of detecting any spoken, written, or electronic communication on the planet, the only way to fend off the oncoming threat is to entrust Earth’s survival to a handful of strategists who keep their plans for.
