We Are Bugs, and we're breaking down the final 4 episodes of 3 BODY PROBLEM: Netflix's adaptation of Cixin Liu's THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM by the Game of Thrones creators. Like Wallfacer Saul, we may not understand all that's happening. We're barely scratching the surface of the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy - will we get season 2?
We have more Science Riddles, Double M Matt Murdick talks the muiscal score, plus we read the "original script" for secrets! 

Episode 5 Judgment Day:  As threat levels rise, a secret mission to retrieve enemy intel ventures into dangerous territory. An ominous message reaches Earth.
Episode 6 The Stars Our Destination: With the world in a state of panic following a momentous declaration, Wade gathers the world's greatest minds to prepare a defense plan.
Episode 7 Only Advance: A bold proposition for the Staircase Project puts the group at odds. Will weighs his options. Ye returns to a familiar place.
Episode 8 Wallfacer: A high-level operation upends Saul's life. With emotions and expectations high, the probe launches into space as humanity enters a daunting new era.

Directed by
Minkie Spiro
Jeremy Podeswa

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)

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)

Matt and Bubba are joined by Bill, as Matt discusses Harry (and really nothing else BUT Harry) as the three review the final 2 episodes of The Crown on Netflix. Also, we announce our contest winner, who gets a 100 dollar gift card from Amazon as their prize! The podcast may be done, but we STILL welcome YOUR thoughts on the episodes discussed, and ALL episodes of the Crown, anytime! Send feedback on those episodes to @Lilibetpod on the site formerly known as Twitter, or to @DoublePHQ across all social media (including Facebook - https://facebook.com/DoublePHQ), or leave comments on the Double P YouTube videos (https://youtube.com/@DoublePMedia), and you can always send emails to mattsaudioblog@gmail.com Matt produces this podcast and video using some sounds and songs licensed through ArtlistIO (https://artlist.io/) and a list of all licenses held can be found in a publicly shared Google Drive folder for inspection: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1to5jB5pXtiovOSAkrsaDRaReQQX9TfON?usp=sharing History Notes: Operation Paget https://people.com/what-was-operation-paget-princess-diana-death-inquiry-8412027 The Queen Mother: https://people.com/royals/queen-elizabeth-moving-speech-death-queen-mother/ Charles and Camila Marriage: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/g19135643/prince-charles-camilla-wedding-photos/ Queen's Jubilee: https://www.rct.uk/collection/themes/Trails/royal-jubilees/hm-queen-elizabeth-ii Funeral Plans: https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/the-crown-season-6-accuracy-fact-fiction-1235836339/ The Fashion Show: https://www.vogue.in/content/the-real-story-behind-kates-unforgettable-runway-moment-at-st-andrews Hope Street House: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/property/1730938/kate-middleton-prince-william-university-home & https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a46014796/who-is-lola-airdale-cavendish-kincaid-the-crown/ Harry's Nazi Costume: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2023/12/14/the-crown-season-6-part-2-fact-check/71877981007/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:02:24 - Rating The Crown S6E09 00:06:51 - Rating The Crown S6E10 00:15:22 - Our Contest Winner Is.... 00:21:20 - Bill's Perspective 00:24:02 - S6E09 65 Second Recap 00:25:18 - S6E10 65 Second Recap 00:27:13 - Tiny Wheel of Topics: Harry Done Dirty? 00:35:09 - Tiny Wheel of Topics: When Harry Met Bad Choices 00:40:00 - Tiny Wheel of Topics: Mou Mou Returns 00:45:10 - Tiny Wheel of Topics: William and Kate 00:49:56 - Tiny Wheel of Topics: Charles and Camilla 00:56:31 - Tiny Wheel of Topics: Facing Mortality 01:04:11 - Tiny Wheel of Topics: The Focus of the Story 01:08:57 - Tiny Wheel of Topics: Favorites from the Series 01:14:42 - History Notes for S6E09 and S6E10 01:19:37 - Music Notes for S6E09 and S6E10 01:22:20 - YOUR Feedback! 01:24:09 - Final Final Thoughts..