Upcoming Netflix Sci-Fi K-Drama Is The Perfect Show To Watch After 3 Body Problem

Netflix will release a sci-fi K-drama later this month that could be the perfect follow-up series for viewers to watch after their 3 Body Problem binge. The streaming platform made a tremendous splash with 3 Body Problem, its hit TV show created by lauded Game of Thrones masterminds D. B. Weiss and David Benioff, who were showrunners alongside True Blood writer Alexander Woo and adapted the series from Liu Cixin’s Hugo-award-winning source novel The Three-Body Problem. Boasting a powerhouse team and fascinating lore to build 3 Body Problem’s world from, the series quickly caught the intrigue of the masses.

Compounded with 3 Body Problem‘s talented cast, including Eiza González, Jovan Adepo, and Liam Cunningham, the series was a recipe for instant success despite contending with divisive reviews and not yet scoring the go-ahead for future seasons. Ultimately, 3 Body Problem held Netflix’s No.1 spot on its global top 10 charts for three weeks straight, securing a pretty sizable fanbase left waiting for more. In the interim between its premiere season and a potential 3 Body Problem season 2, viewers impressed by the recent sci-fi hit may be able to find a fix in another Netflix original series.

Netflix’s Goodbye Earth Sounds Like The Perfect 3 Body Problem Replacement

Goodbye Earth Offers Sci-Fi Themes, Drama, And A Sense Of Impending Doom

The streaming platform’s forthcoming series, Goodbye Earth, has some serious potential to become the perfect replacement for 3 Body Problem. If Goodbye Earth director Kim Jin-min’s previous work on the Netflix original My Name, which currently enjoys a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score, is any indication, anyone who relishes a good K-drama, sci-fi, or thriller could be in for an absolute treat with the streaming platform’s new South Korean series. However, for 3 Body Problem fans especially, Goodbye Earth may be of particular interest because the two series share a few major characteristics in common.

Besides finding inspiration from source novels, both series function off of a pressing sense of impending doom. For 3 Body Problem, the story operates on how humanity scrambles to prepare for the approaching arrival of advanced extraterrestrials called the San-Ti, and Goodbye Earth’s narrative revolves around how Earth, specifically the city of Woongcheon, copes with a catastrophic asteroid strike forecast to end the world in 200 days. 3 Body Problem fans will appreciate that Goodbye Earth’s plot is similarly contingent on feelings of urgency and that Woongcheon’s response in the countdown to doomsday is rife with action and sci-fi conceptions.

What To Expect From Netflix’s Goodbye Earth K-Drama

Bank On An Emotionally-driven Story With Intense Thrills

Judging from its source book, the Goodbye Earth TV series will be an emotional but insightful vehicle for social commentary. Goodbye Earth will illustrate in broad strokes how a population in Korea spends their last several months on Earth in the wake of an unavoidable apocalypse but will more closely follow three essential characters. According to Netflix:

Amid the chaos, viewers follow three key characters: Se-kyung (Ahn Eun-jin), a middle school teacher, fights tooth and nail to protect children who have become targets of crime, facing the harsh reality that they will never get to grow up. Sung-jae (Jeon Seong-woo), a priest, offers comfort to his shaken community. Meanwhile, In-a (Kim Yoon-hye), a battalion commander, works tirelessly to maintain peace and safeguard people during these challenging times.

With dangers lurking at every corner, including from up above, audiences can expect Goodbye Earth to be chock-full of gut-wrenching life and death thrills. As Goodbye Earth’s trailer suggests, the limits of humanity are sure to be tested, shining light on the best of the best as well as the worst of the worst. By centering on how humanity intends to make the most of their last few days, Goodbye Earth could have a great chance at being as exciting and engrossing as Netflix’s 3 Body Problem sensation, if not to some degree more.

Source: Rotten Tomatoes, Netflix