TV Review: 3 Body Problem starts well - but it's unclear what's even happening

"...the young physicists’ sure-fire dialogue makes it feel like The Big Bang Theory, only worse, and I never thought that was possible."

Jess Hong in 3 Body Problem.

Netflix’s latest offering, 3 Body Problem, starts brilliantly. We’re in China during the Counter-Revolution and a physicist is being ordered to renounce the Theory of Relativity as imperialist Western propaganda, in front of a crowd of students baying for blood.

They get it when the physicist is beaten to death, while his daughter watches on in horror. She is sent to a prison camp in the depths of Mongolia, at the bottom of a hill topped by a mysterious-looking military installation.