Purists of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy will balk at this Apple TV+ version where each season jumps 100 years into the future. Season 3 starts with a partly new cast, a new set of plot problems, and some of the old cast continuing the story of Foundation vs. Empire as well.

Genius mathematician Hari Seldon, who invented psychohistory–the mathematics that accurately predicts the Future–is aging in real time at the secret Second Foundation site.

Meanwhile an incredibly complex computer program, hiding in a giant, impenetrable vault at the first Foundation, threatens the Empire. Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell)–Seldon’s protege–is in cryo-sleep, waking every few years to help train the Second Foundation to prepare for the coming of the vicious psychic mutant, The Mule.

Yes, 80% of the current characters and plot do not appear in Asimov’s classic SF novels. No matter. The cast is good, the production values are top-notch, and the plot of mathematics trying to prevent the downfall of a Galactic Empire still fascinates me. A new episodes drops every Friday. I’ve watched the first episode of 10. GRADE: Incomplete, but treading towards a B+