If you’ve made it to Episode 3 of Netflix’s new sci-fi series “3 Body Problem,” you know there’s a scene in which Benedict Wong’s character talks about how J. Robert Oppenheimer’s mistress died. Series creators David Benioff, D.B. Weiss and Alexander Woo revealed they were initially worried that viewers might not understand the reference – then Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” came out.
The scene finds Wong’s investigator Clarence Shi happening upon another dead scientist, this one with his head in the bathtub. “Oppenheimer’s mistress died the same way, on her knees, head in a tub,” his character says before adding that many thought she may have been murdered.