[gibagger]

The first book/season is such a banger because it's pretty great horror sci-fi at that point.

Eventually the whole protomolecule thing settles down, and afterwards you have essentially politics and genocide in space, which can be good but almost feels like a different genre.

[robertlagrant]

Right - the first season's gradual zooming out (expanse) from a very focused murder mystery into a solar system-spanning event was amazing. It did feel like that event then got sidelined, as you say, in favour of politics.