{"id":383789,"date":"2026-11-11T00:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=383789"},"modified":"2026-11-11T00:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:56:02","slug":"the-silent-sea-is-now-on-netflix-watch-it-if-you-liked-the-expanse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-silent-sea-is-now-on-netflix-watch-it-if-you-liked-the-expanse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silent Sea is now on Netflix: watch it if you liked The Expanse"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Silent Sea hit Netflix<\/a> on December 24, 2021, and its eight-episode run makes for a strong follow-up to The Expanse<\/a>. It has that same near-future plausibility, but the show leans harder on mystery, with a believable human crisis at the center, a dangerous mission, and secrets that only get worse the deeper the crew goes.<\/p>\n

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Released on December 24, 2021<\/strong>, The Silent Sea expands on director Choi Hang-yong\u2019s 2014 short film The Sea of Tranquility. Where The Expanse<\/a> works on a sprawling political scale straight out of James S.A. Corey, this story stays much tighter. It\u2019s set on the abandoned Balhae lunar research station, where a handpicked crew is sent to investigate an earlier disaster in a dystopian future shaped by desertification and catastrophic water shortages.<\/p>\n\n

Inside the base, the crew uncovers the truth behind \u201clunar water,\u201d a substance that seems like it could solve Earth\u2019s crisis because it multiplies on contact with living organisms. The problem is that it\u2019s lethally unstable<\/strong>, and its victims drown from the inside. That\u2019s what gives The Silent Sea its identity as hard sci-fi, survival thriller, and conspiracy story all at once. The tone is far more claustrophobic than The Expanse, with clear echoes of Alien<\/a> and Interstellar<\/a>. The themes are familiar too: scarcity, inequality, secrecy, and the ethics of scientific research. The show also had the numbers to back up the attention, with 47.8 million hours watched and a Top 10 ranking in 77 countries, including No. 1 in six of them, according to Netflix. Even now, as of late 2026, there\u2019s still no confirmed season 2. If you\u2019ve been missing serious sci-fi, The Silent Sea is worth your time.<\/p>\n\n

You can watch The Silent Sea on Netflix.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Silent Sea hit Netflix on December 24, 2021, and its eight-episode run makes for a strong follow-up to The Expanse. It has that same near-future plausibility, but the show leans harder on mystery, with a believable human crisis at the center, a dangerous mission, and secrets that only get worse the deeper the crew … Continue reading “The Silent Sea is now on Netflix: watch it if you liked The Expanse”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":383788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6869],"class_list":["post-383789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-streaming-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t