Get ready to return to space when you watch Season 5 of "The Expanse" on Amazon Prime Video. This action-packed sci-fi drama returns for its final season with 10 new episodes. Yes, "The Expanse" is in its sixth and final chapter.

Meanwhile, Season 5 is now available for streaming. The story begins with a large number of humans leaving the solar system and seeking a new home on an Earth-like world on the other side of an alien ring. Centuries of exploitation in the Belt finally have terrible consequences, and the crew of the Rocinante is feeling the effects.

Trying to escape the past is a theme for several of the major characters in Season 5 of The Expanse. Holden (Stephen Strait) confronts the deal with the protomolecule, the aliens who made it, and the mystery that killed them. Amos (Wes Chatham) returns to Earth to face the life he left behind, Naomi (Dominic Tipper) contacts her estranged son, and Drummer (Kara Gee) settles down with a new crew.

Bobby (Frankie Adams) and Alex (Cass Amber) struggle with the collapse of Mars as they pursue a shadowy cabal tied to terrorists. And Avasarala (Sholay Aghdashloo) fights to prevent a terrorist attack unparalleled in history.

Here's everything you need to know about how to watch "The Expanse" Season 5.

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Most people around the world have access to Amazon Prime Video, so they can watch Season 5 of "The Expanse."

Episodes 1, 2, and 3 will be released on Wednesday, December 16 at midnight ET and are streaming now.

The remaining seven episodes will be available every Wednesday.

The trailer begins with the solar system on the brink of a major conflict as faction leader Marco Inaros (Keon Alexander) calls on his fellow belters to stand up against centuries of abuse.

As for Roach's crew, as Holden is told, he has it all: good ship, crew, and love. But he will not stop worrying about the fate of the world.

Most of The Expanse's core cast is returning for Season 5:

Fans can also expect to see these recurring cast members:

Reviews for Season 5 of The Expanse are pouring in. Here is a summary of the TV critics' comments:

AV Club "The chemistry and interaction between the crew of the Rocinante has always been a major attraction, but here, each crew member is isolated from the others and made more or less meaningless by the huge crisis that is the main threat of the season. That it works so well is a testament to the quality of the original work, as well as to the amount of time the show spent making sure all of its core cast members were worth watching."

Paste: "The dramatic isolation of the core characters means that the action in Season 5 will inevitably be much slower than most fans are used to, and 'Expanse' already had the capacity to be a pretty slow show."

Den of Geek: "The emotional stakes are high in 'The Expanse' Season 5, and it takes a few episodes for the action to really get going, but once things kick into gear it's full speed ahead."

Ars Technica: "The Expanse's fifth season is its best since the first, a long-awaited sweep against several seasons' worth of set-ups. If you've walked away from the show in previous seasons as if it were an accidental microgravity fallout, this new season is worth finding a way to come back."

Comics Beat "If you want a bare-bones sci-fi space show, 'Expanse' is still the best. Really, really. It has it all: mostly realistic physics, interesting politics, a diverse and talented cast, well-crafted stories, and character arcs, but it still has the flaws I mentioned in my review of the fourth season. In other words, The Expanse needs more than a monologuing polemicist (Marco) and perhaps an evil alien (still vague) Big Bad."