Most of the scenes look like it is shot on location, and there is no doubt that Apple is spending a lot of money in this production. The mashing of so many tones together might bring to light the scope and ambition of Invasion as a show, and it looks big and sprawling. It ranges from bland to barely passable, and while some story threads do work, others completely miss the mark.Įach of these story threads mirrors a conceit of a famous science fiction property be it War of the Worlds, Arrival or even Stranger Things to some degree. It also doesn’t help that the writing of the show is just not remarkable enough. However, Invasion is edited in so jarring a fashion, that none of the inciting incidents occurring on-screen are allowed to coalesce or breathe. Related to Invasion (Season 1) – Blind Review – A dull, inspid home invasion horror that’s hard to sit throughīut for any show taking itself so seriously, the audience needs to be invested. As it stands Kinberg and his team of writers are interested in maintaining a melancholic tone and vibe throughout the show, thus employing Max Richter of The Leftovers fame for the score. It would be an interesting social experiment to watch if the writing and thus the events occurring around these events were interesting. The first two episodes are responsible for introducing such a large cast, with the third episode slowly moving all the pieces together. And finally in Afghanistan, Trevante Ward (Shamier Anderson), an exceptional soldier comes across a strange object while investigating a small town. This causes the bus to fall off a cliff, and the adult responsible for supervision is grievously injured, leaving the kids to fend for themselves. In London, a group of school children are going on a field trip when their bus gets off the road due to a meteorite shower. The mission goes awry when the space shuttle collides with a mysterious object, and Mitsuki sets out to investigate, even as strange happenings continue occurring around the world. The audience learns that Murai is in a secret relationship with Mitsuki (Shiori Kutsuna), a communications engineer at JASA. In Japan, chief astronaut Captain Murai (Rinko Kikuchi) is on a mission on behalf of JASA, to send a three-member crew to the International Space Station. If that wasn’t enough, she also comes to know that her husband is having an affair, and while confronting her husband about the said affair at dinner that night, a shock wave goes throughout their neighborhood destroying all of the neighboring houses except theirs. Aneesha, played by Iranian actress Golshifteh Farhaani comes to know that all the children in her kids’ music class suffered a case of nose bleeding, except her son. In Long Island, New York, a young Israeli couple Aneesha and Ahmed starts noticing strange occurrences throughout their neighborhood. He is called to a missing person case where he comes across a crop circle. In Oklahoma USA, a sheriff (played by Sam Neill) is on his last day before retirement. Also, Read – Contact (1997): Revisiting The Underrated Sci-Fi 24-Years On It explores the lives of normal people before said invasion starts to occur and how the resultant response to it happens.
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Invasion (Season 1) – the 10 episode series created by Simon Kinberg and David Weil starts off with a large ensemble that is shot around the world. High concepts should be the hook for pulling you in the story, but at the end, unless your characters are interesting enough, or your story isn’t paced well enough, all your high concepts and thus the entirety of your point gets lost in the ether of absolute boredom and disinterest. At the end of the day, a setup depicting science fiction needs compelling characters. Mostly because it provides a reason for getting invested in the drama shown on the screen. Invasion (Season 1) Review: Any science fiction story needs a good setup.