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- Apple TV+
- Jun 20, 2021
- Apple TV+
- Jun 20, 2021
Summary An alien invasion is at the center of the science fiction drama series from Simon Kinberg and David Weil.
Created By: Simon Kinberg, David Weil
- Apple TV+
- Jun 20, 2021
- Apple TV+
- Jun 20, 2021
Summary An alien invasion is at the center of the science fiction drama series from Simon Kinberg and David Weil.
Created By: Simon Kinberg, David Weil
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Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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13% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
51
20% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
67% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
13% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
“Invasion,” a new series that concerns a sudden alien invasion but is much more about the people, is a refreshing and often thrilling juggling of plot-threads that involve incredibly flawed or hurtful decisions made in the name of survival.
It’s good enough to stay with, that’s for sure. It does feel like, though, that the aliens are going to be beside the point in this show, kind of like the zombies became after the first season of The Walking Dead. And we’re not sure we want to see yet another series where other people are way worse than the unknown enemy that’s invading our world.
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Based on 53 User Ratings
4.2
32% Positive
17 Ratings
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19% Mixed
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49% Negative
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 53 User Ratings
4.2
32% Positive
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
19% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
49% Negative
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
There is, you’ll have gathered, a lot of story here. It should also be pointed out that a lot of it is very good. ... The problem is that bigness again. In a bid to tell a sweeping story for all mankind (to borrow another strong Apple TV+ title), Invasion takes hours, literally, to get to the invasion.
A smaller-scale account of alien attack that foregoes the usual city-busting CGI in favour of a more intimate, personal approach. It takes its sweet time about it, though.
Maybe all these different storylines are going to meet up, maybe they’re all going to keep wandering around. It will take great patience to find out which.
Invasion is science fiction without much science or any real genre thrills. ... But setup has to be more clever and more empathetic than this, and the payoff has to be less anticlimactic and perplexing. I’m truly not sure if the 10th episode’s ending opens the door for a second season or if I care.
"Invasion" proceeds so incrementally across such a wide range of characters and their responses to extraterrestrial terrorism that you might well lose your way from week to week. Never mind your interest. ... Trevante's behavior is typical of both the writing and direction here, as he fumes, spewing vulgarities no one can hear, abusing the goat herder who treats his wounds and speaking English louder and louder, as if that would help.
There is something completely wrong with this series.
It tries to be Pearl-Harbor, telling the story **** tragedy from a simple man perspective.
But also keeps it too slow and too minimalistic most of the time.
The tragedy advances, the fear growth, but the real story stutters.
So, it becomes hard to enjoy tiny-tragedies, where big things are somewhere behind the horizon. And what you see barely matters.
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This show is a huge waste of money and talent. The cinematography and effects are great. No problem there. But why waste it on such a badly written show?
The worst sin of this show’s writing is that it is boring. The pacing is too slow. The scenes and characters are too familiar. The “Lord of the Flies” bit is the most egregious misuse of familiar themes. Maybe 20 percent of this show is interesting. I found myself hitting fast forward most of the time.
The second worst sin is having no likeable characters. The least likeable is the soldier who likes to shove his gun into everyone’s face. From there it is a 3 way tie between the insufferable tweens, the exasperated mom, and the stuck up communications engineer. Unimportant characters will often tell the audience how great the 4 main characters are. They say things like “Only you could have saved him!”, just in case you the dummy in the audience failed to recognize the main character’s importance. The themes of the show are all over the place. Sometimes the populace is just too ignorant and should listen to the smart, thinking main character. Other times the scientific community is at fault, and the dumb, shouting protagonist is right. Never do we see the characters rally together to fight the common enemy. What is the point of this show? Maybe the point is that streaming services are willing to shovel money into a show regardless of its quality.
Like almost all failed shows, the fault is in the writing. Apple TV shouldn’t have let this gestate beyond the initial scripts. The writing is just so bad in so many obvious ways. Has no one at Apple TV been to Oklahoma? Did no one ever try to book at hotel room during a mass evacuation? It’s not like we have no way to ground this story in reality. The gulf states have mass evacuations every hurricane season. Did no one think that audiences would tire of 5 episodes about grief? Do better, Apple.
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