The BEST episodes of Three-Body
Every episode of Three-Body ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Three-Body!
It follows a group of Chinese scientists as they ask aliens to come to Earth to redeem humanity.
#4 - Episode 30
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 2/3/2023
The Trisolaran Chief announces that in four and a half million Trisolaran hours, their fleet will reach the solar system. To curb Earth’s civilization from leaping ahead, the Trisolaran develop the plans code-named Coloring and Miracle, and Project Sophon.
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#7 - Episode 7
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/18/2023
After receiving an order from "the Lord" to either stop Wang Miao's nanotech research, or eliminate him, Shen Yufei tries to win him over by giving him a link to a VR game called Three-Body. He and Shi Qiang enter the game and discover a world of erratic weather patterns with unpredictable dawns & dusks, harsh cold and scorching heat, as they've logged in during a Chaotic Era. Another player, King Zhou, explains that Stable Eras occur, in wildly varying lengths, when the climate is mild and allows for civilization to develop. The civilization in the world of Three-Body is able to dehydrate and store itself within thick buildings to survive Chaotic Eras. They witness two flying stars in the sky, an sign that a Stable Era will soon begin. King Wen proposes to King Zhou his self-made calendar predicting the coming of the next long Stable Era. King Zhou orders the civilization of Three-Body to rehydrate and dehydrated bodies are rolled out into the nearby lakes.
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#8 - Episode 5
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/16/2023
Mu Xing, an investigative reporter, bluntly confronts Shi Qiang about his investigation into the suicides. Wang Miao goes to a former student of Ye Wenjie's to observe the cosmic microwave background. To their dismay, at the appointed time, it starts fluctuating in a pattern of short and long episodes, spelling out the countdown in Morse. To confirm the data, they compare it with the Urumqi observatory and with their own eyes, using 3K glasses that compress the wavelength into visible light – the universe beyond the night sky is flickering the countdown. This drives Wang Miao to further despair until Shi Qiang finds him and offers him some comfort. Later, the nanotech experiments are restarted and Wang Miao gives a guest lesson at his daughter's school, affirming his belief in finding answers through science.
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#9 - Episode 15
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/2023
Wang Miao re-enters the game with his daughter’s inspiration and Ye Wenjie’s interpretation. He understands the concept of the Stable Era and the Chaotic Era based on the movements of the three suns, helping him to enter the next stage of the game. Shi Qiang and Xu Bingbing become more suspicious about Ye Wenjie because of her financial aid to her niece, Chen Xue. Wang Miao re-enters the game.
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#15 - Episode 4
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/15/2023
The lab equipment for Wang Miao's experiments is in need of maintenance, which convinces him to halt the experiments. The moment the last machine stops, the countdown halts and disappears from his vision. Frustrated, he calls Shen Yufei, who tells him they are not in control of what happens. When this explanation does not suffice, she gives him a website with Morse code instructions and advises him to look for the countdown in the cosmic microwave background, as it will begin again when he restarts his nanotech trials. To convince him that she is trying to avoid him meeting the same end as Yang Dong, she tells him that the universe will flicker for him. Later, he meets Ye Wenjie at her home, where she reminisces about her daughter and confesses guilt over her fate. Afterwards, Shi Qiang lets Wang Miao know that every dead scientist so far had come in contact with Shen Yufei shortly before committing suicide.
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#17 - Episode 11
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/23/2023
Ye was accused for reading forbidden book and writing a letter that delivered anti-revolutionary ideas. She was given a way out, but with one condition, which was to accuse her father as anti-revolutionary even after his death.
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#18 - Episode 17
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/30/2023
Shi Qiang and Wang Miao embark on a mission to find Shen Yufei and Ye Wenjie. The Earth Three-body Organization is divided, hindering communication with the "Lord." Ye Wenjie establishes the Third Red Coast Base but receives no messages.
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#19 - Episode 6
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/17/2023
Shi Qiang gets a surprisingly efficient assistant, Xu Bingbing. After Wang Miao asks him whether there are other scientists like him – ones related to Shen Yufei, but such that neither became members of the Frontiers of Science, nor committed suicide, he points out Ye Wenjie as an example, and tells him about her past. Her grandfather met Einstein in 1922 when employed as child laborer in road construction. Her mother, also a scientist, lied and embellished that encounter, until the Cultural Revolution took hold in China. Ye Wenjie's father, however, remained relentless and refused to deny scientific theories established by the West to abide by domestic politics. Ye Wenjie is shown mourning him soon thereafter.
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