🎥🎞️Series Review🎞️🎥 - INVASION [2021] - Season 1 - APPLE TV - [PG13 or TV MA] - Written by Simon Kinberg, David Well, Adam Benic, Gursimran Sandau, Andrew Baldwin, David Rosen, and Uzoamaka Maduka. Directed by Amanda Marsalis, Jakob Verbruggen, Jamie Payne, and Alik Sakharov. Sam Neill, Shioli Kutsuna, Golshifteh Farahani, Shamier Anderson, and Billy Barratt. There was a tremendous promotional push for this series with action filled trailers and TV ads.
This series spins plot about five groups of naive people from various cultures and countries who find themselves in the middle of an alien invasion, a few are too busy in their own personal worlds to see what's actually taking place around them until it's way too late for them to accept what's going on. After local communications and power grids are disrupted, we see how losing the internet, communications, and television can start a quick panic between countries. There is no standout star in this series, except it is somewhat expected that all of the characters presented in the show are surely going to cross paths at some point. There is plenty of chaos, unexplained explosions, some blame on terrorists, and love triangles that bend this sci-fi series in a direction that can either lead the characters to save the world or doom the livelihood they all lived in.
THE GOOD - There are no big names in the series, Sam Neill's part is cut short, but he brings a very interesting twist to the show's beginning. There is a story arc of some Navy SEALS who are presented in the series and I was pleasantly pleased with the tactical prowess and comradery of the team shown in the first four episodes. The location spotting for the series took tremendous effort for the series production team, and they presented some realistic locations for the show.
THE BAD - Apple TV pushes the gay/Lesbian agenda in this series, presenting right away that the earth's only hope to communicate with the alien race is the love bond between two women....and some viewers might admire the production team spending tons of time developing characters, and I feel that the method used in the screenplay seems to drag on a bit too long, cutting back and forth between the five sub plots and then having to read captions throughout most of the important scientific jib-jab in the show. The sound quality is very bad, especially where the director felt the need to focus on the sound of rain and wind, instead of making the characters clearly communicate during moments building up to some much desired action sequences; the whispering dialog is so bad at some points that I had to switch to a head set and then captions to understand what anyone was saying. The aliens aren't explained at all and most of their appearance is presented in shadows and dark places; very little detail to show expect that their fast, have a gaping mouth[?] area and they love to tear people apart. For all of the aliens know ability to shred humans pretty instantly, there's very little blood and gore.
POST MORTEM - I was not impressed with this series. By the time the aliens began to show themselves and make moves against the main characters, there was some cheesy reason why the alien advance was suddenly turned around and how several characters suddenly had the ability to suddenly control the aliens or see into their actions to prevent certain death. Watch this series if your seriously bored and have nothing else to do. On a side note, I stumbled on to the fact that there's a Season 2 already released and I was wasn't impressed that the new season presents the alien species suddenly attacking in full force and in broad daylight...and don't get me started with the notion that a "one woman warrior" now knows how to kill the aliens....puh-lease...I'll pass on Season 2.
THE BAD - Apple TV pushes the gay/Lesbian agenda in this series, presenting right away that the earth's only hope to communicate with the alien race is the love bond between two women....and some viewers might admire the production team spending tons of time developing characters, and I feel that the method used in the screenplay seems to drag on a bit too long, cutting back and forth between the five sub plots and then having to read captions throughout most of the important scientific jib-jab in the show. The sound quality is very bad, especially where the director felt the need to focus on the sound of rain and wind, instead of making the characters clearly communicate during moments building up to some much desired action sequences; the whispering dialog is so bad at some points that I had to switch to a head set and then captions to understand what anyone was saying. The aliens aren't explained at all and most of their appearance is presented in shadows and dark places; very little detail to show expect that their fast, have a gaping mouth[?] area and they love to tear people apart. For all of the aliens know ability to shred humans pretty instantly, there's very little blood and gore.
POST MORTEM - I was not impressed with this series. By the time the aliens began to show themselves and make moves against the main characters, there was some cheesy reason why the alien advance was suddenly turned around and how several characters suddenly had the ability to suddenly control the aliens or see into their actions to prevent certain death. Watch this series if your seriously bored and have nothing else to do. On a side note, I stumbled on to the fact that there's a Season 2 already released and I was wasn't impressed that the new season presents the alien species suddenly attacking in full force and in broad daylight...and don't get me started with the notion that a "one woman warrior" now knows how to kill the aliens....puh-lease...I'll pass on Season 2.
