Podcast hosts Bubba & Catfish prove they're not rocket scientists breaking down the first 4 episodes of 3 BODY PROBLEM: Netflix's adaptation of Cixin Liu's THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM by the Game of Thrones creators. A fateful decision made in 1960s China reverberates in the present, where a group of scientists partner with a detective to confront an existential planetary threat.

Episode 1 Countdown: Unsettling events put a group of brilliant friends on edge as a mystery unravels with origins tracing back to China during the Cultural Revolution.  Episode 2 Red Coast Auggie's countdown jeopardizes her nanotech work. Jin becomes engrossed in an otherworldly VR game. Ye Wenjie follows through on a radical idea. Episode 3 Destroyer of Worlds Obsessed with their virtual reality quest, Jin and Jack race to solve a complex riddle but advancing to the next level brings harrowing consequences. Episode 4 Our Lord Jin seeks justice after a death rattles the group. Investigators learn of an extremist group devoted to an otherworldly entity ahead of a major summit.

Directed by Derek Tsang Andrew Stanton Minkie Spiro

Series Writing Credits David Benioff ... (series created by) (8 episodes, 2024) Rose Cartwright ... (story editor) (8 episodes, 2024) Cixin Liu ... (based on the books by) (8 episodes, 2024) Madhuri Shekar ... (story editor) (8 episodes, 2024)  D.B. Weiss ... (series created by) (8 episodes, 2024) Alexander Woo ... (series created by) (8 episodes, 2024)

Series Cast Jovan Adepo ... Saul Durand Liam Cunningham ... Thomas Wade Eiza González ... Auggie Salazar Jess Hong ... Jin Cheng Benedict Wong ... Da Shi Marlo Kelly ... Tatiana Alex Sharp ... Will Downing Sea Shimooka ... Sophon Rosalind Chao ... Ye Wenjie Saamer Usmani ... Raj Varma Jonathan Pryce ... Mike Evans Gerard Monaco ... Collins John Bradley ... Jack Rooney Zine Tseng ... Young Ye Wenjie John Dagleish ... Felix Hélène Viviès ... Lecompte Stephen Rahman Hughes ... Anwar Suleiman Adrian Edmondson ... Denys Porlock Bea Svistunenko ... Laeticia Bilal Hasna ... Edgar CCH Pounder ... Secretary General Lilian Joseph Ben Schnetzer ... Young MIke Evans Vedette Lim ... Vera Ye Guming Yu ... Yang Weining Eve Ridley ... Follower Aidan Cheng ... Reg Deng Qiaozhi ... Lei Zhicheng Lan Xiya ... Tang Hongjing Benjamin Jia ... Lead Operator Josh Brener ... Kent Mark Gatiss ... Isaac Newton Reece Shearsmith ... Alan Turing Conleth Hill ... Pope Gregory XIII Jason Barnett ... Eugene Dustin Demri-Burns ... Ted4 Adam Silver ... Charles Em Thane ... Tech Lily Newmark ... Nora Hywel Morgan ... Selwyn Pugh Maryam Moshiri ... BBC Anchorwoman Naoko Mori ... Marie Curie Lainy Boyle ... Mother of Theo Jose Palma ... Roberto Minaree Jayasena ... One Earth Volunteer Avital Lvova ... Ramanujan Jarlan Bogolubov ... Theo Sagar Arya ... One Earth Official Bobak Ferdowsi ... Mission Director Lucy Russell ... Sally Jenson Cheng ... Kublai Khan Jason Forbes ... Omar Khayyam Mitya Savelau ... Dr. Peter Demikhov Sun Yan ... Commander Song Richard James-Neale ... Soldier Tom Wu ... Count of the West Phil Wang ... Aristotle Stacy Abalogun ... Thelma Yang Hewen ... Bai Mulin Sarah Malin ... Doctor Clem Cheung ... General Hou Bolin Jim Howick ... Harry Perry Yung ... Ye Zhetai Adrian Greensmith ... Galileo Russell Yuen ... Emperor Zhou Edmund Kingsley ... Jeremiah Salem Hadeed ... Leyla Ariç Jake Tapper ... Jake Tapper Florence Bell ... Roxanne Fengxu Li ... Shao Lin

Series Producers include Rian Johnson ... executive producer (8 episodes, 2024) Qi Lin ... executive producer (8 episodes, 2024) Cixin Liu ... consulting producer (8 episodes, 2024) Lauren Ma ... executive producer (8 episodes, 2024) Rosamund Pike ... executive producer (8 episodes, 2024) Brad Pitt ... executive producer (8 episodes, 2024) Jilong Cedric Zhao ... executive producer (8 episodes, 2024) Ken Liu ... consulting producer (7 episodes, 2024)

Series Music by Ramin Djawadi ... (8 episodes, 2024)