Invasion

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(Edited)

Name - Invasion
Released - 2021
Director- Various mish-mash.


My sci-fi binge continues and I finished watching the first season of Invasion on Apple TV. This time the story is about aliens starting to invade, although by watching the series, they don't seem to be taking it so seriously.

The series follows characters from many different places and how they react when aliens start to attack different cities and the impact it has. There seems to also be a cameo role from JAXA or JASA in the show with a lesbain astronaut and her very emotional girlfriend in ground control. Lucky the aliens have access to the back album of David Bowie and at one point play back their first song together, aptly the Ground Control one.

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Following the girls very deep connecting love story through space and possibly alien abduction? is a key part of the story. I started getting Chris Hadfield vibes when they played their song together. I thought Chris' in sync singing with the Barenaked Ladies was much more uplifting though.

Shioli Kutsuna (the ground control astronaut) must have gone through at least a few kilos of onions for this role as she seemed to cry non-stop. If she wasn't crying, she was sobbing in the shower with just some panties on or climbing the expensive space monitor dish.

The first series was somehow bad, but still watchable. Some of the scenes were so low budget and corny, but I had the feeling I wanted to see what other cringey stuff they would come up with next.

The character Golshifteh Farahani played by Aneesha Malik is another one of those weird storylines. She is a superbrain doctor who graduated Harvard, and as soon as the electricity goes out, grabs the kids and decides to start running, driving or just keep moving. Once she gets out of one car, she is looking for a place to jog to or steal another car, just so she can keep moving. I think she would be great to star in Lord of the Rings following Gandalf running across Middle Earth.

Another group of characters are some school kids who get stuck down a ditch and one of the boys has siezures, another is a bully and it just gets more ridiculous as it goes along! For half of the series, most of our characters dont even encounter aliens or know whats going on, but apparently many places are ravaged by ... the aliens.. this is when it gets even more hilarious.


I took the above photo and you can see how ridiculous the aliens look. After seeing some of the great aliens in Foundation, this was just a joke! Some weird black blobby things with tentacles just wonder around aimlessly trying to kill people. So far, in the first series, the aliens don't seem to be an intelligent life form, they just can travel through space and invade planets with their low tech insect like bodies.

The series has a low-budget feel for it and yeah, there are many better alien invasion movies, but somehow I did stick through the first series and near the end the storyline seems like it might pick up, but it wouldn't be hard to improve on the first series tbh!

My favorite actor in the series so far has been Shamier Anderson who seems ready for a bigger role than here. He has a great screen presence and you would like to see more depth to his character, but alas there isn't any.

I thought I recognised him from somewhere, and it was from the John Wick part 4 film. Overall, I will start to watch the next season and hopefully it will be an improvement on the first one which is sort of watchable, but nothing to rave home about.

Have you seen it?

Thanks for reading.

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I thought both seasons of invasion were great. The kids crying all the time was the only thing that annoyed me. Everything else was pretty interesting. Learning the mystery of how everything is connected keeps me watching.

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There is something keeping me watching. I like abit more the mystery starting near the end of the first series and will start season 2 to see how it plays out. But, there are some serious cringeworthy scenes that arent so polished.

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I'm willing to suspend belief a bit when a show covers subject matter like this, so the CGI and stuff like that doesn't bug me quite so much. Season 2 goes in a quite different direction.

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Yeah, the last episode peaked my interest in where it will go, as the first season was a little hard to believe, but still fun in places.

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Hahahaha, how interesting that the aliens' playlist has Bowie, well, at least they have good taste. I love science fiction series and movies too, but I am clear that it is all part of the predictive programming that we experience every day. Great review!

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Yeah, that gave me a chuckle with the Bowie songs, they couldn't make it more obvious. I do love to watch the sci-fi still though and love Bowie ! haha

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This sci-fi series is an amazing one
I’ve seen my brother watch this particular one so many times
It’s like it is very interesting

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It is a good in many ways but also has some weak points. Overall it is worth to watch though I think.

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seems overhyped that trailer.

I took the above photo and you can see how ridiculous the aliens look

and yes that is a pretty sad looking alien

oh well not like i had time to watch this :')

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I haven't watched this series. From your review, it could be interesting. I'll put it on my to-watch list.
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I love your review for this movie. Shamier Anderson's standout performance provides a glimpse of potential for the series I would consider watching it sometimes.

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I haven't watched it yet. But it looks really interesting with its different sets of characters and storylines. I've watched a few invasion movies and always enjoyed the alien characters, some of them are really hilarious :)

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Yeah, I really like the genre, and when they roll out the aliens its usually pretty funny!

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I haven't seen this sci-fi series but after reading your review, it seems like an interesting one.

You watched it on which platform? I mean netflix, Amazon or Disney?

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Sounds like it is a good show. I seem to rarely have time for TV these days and even when I do have some, I use it for taking a walk or reading. Someday when the kids have moved out and I'm not so stressed from trying to make money, I'll come back to all the things I've missed over the years. This is another for my list!

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I know the feeling. So many things to do and not enough time. It is better to have IRL things than TV, it will always be there, IRL stuff not so much.

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Never heard of this, but then again I don't do apple.

I started reading and get to Ground Control and bam David Bowie started playing in my head. Sure enough you then mentioned it!

Enjoy your scifi binge!

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Thanks Ed. Bowie has some great music, great to see it in some sci-fi.

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thanks for this review
I'll add it to the list of series to watch
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