The book series is worth the healthy chunk of your life it takes to read. The Chinese TV production - 3 Body, on Prime and Peacock - is extremely well done and, for the most part, an accurate adaptation. Netflix has given us the Reader's Digest version, westernized to protect us from a "foreign" story. It's pap, and a poor substitute IMO. Spend a few more hours and watch 3 Body (without the English dubbed dialog).