Invasion

[arsenal]

Invasion. The new drama from Apple. Episode 1 is called Last Day and it stars Sam Neil so you just know things are not going to turn.out that well. I think the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse are pretty much guaranteed to show up at some point. Crop circles, disappearances, bleeding noses, global shitfest...you get the idea. A couple of years ago this would have been pure fiction but today I don't think anything would surprise anyone.

[Moses]

As per reviews, based on 3 first episodes: it is boring emotional drama without any actions, and only 5.8 points on IMDB confirms it https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9737326/

As per my experience: any series below 7.0 are cheap dramas

My range:
below 7.0 don't waste your time
above 7.0 worth to try
above 8.0 high probability of good quality series
above 9.0 must see

[Jellybean]

. . . it is boring emotional drama without any actions . . .

Oh! How disappointing, I read about it a couple of weeks ago and, with winter coming; I was planning on settling down to watch another War of the Worlds type drama. But the review by Lucy Mangan of The Guardian (below) gives it three stars and appears to confirm the assessment by Moses that it lacks action and says, “if only something would actually happen”. I was hoping for great things and had actually checked if my TV had an icon to provide access to Apple TV+, it didn’t, so I added a link and was considering taking up their free 7 day package before forking out £4.99 a month.

Hmmm . . . three episodes and little action is not the way to hold on to viewers. I’ll wait and see if future reviews say anything more positive.

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Invasion review – no stranger danger in Apple’s anaemic alien takeover

Meteor showers, mass nosebleeds, missing people … this small-screen tale of extra-terrestrials coming to Earth could be thrilling – if only something would actually happen

Lucy Mangan
@LucyMangan Fri 22 Oct 2021 14.30 BST

As someone who is currently being destroyed by Squid Game (https://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showthread.php?22433-Squid-Game) – with which Netflix has played upon our collective anxiety strings like the world’s most gleefully malevolent violinist – I wholeheartedly welcome an epic tale of global takeover by alien beings in which almost nothing, in fact, happens.

Invasion (Apple TV+) is balm to my harrowed soul. It starts off traditionally enough. A mysterious something falls out of the sky and lands with a kerpow! in an isolated part of the world (here, the Arabian desert), witnessed by a lone traveller whose curiosity about this strange happening soon proves fatal. Mr Inquisitive meets his end by being sort of carbonised and liquidised at the same time. The special effects throughout the 10-part series are intriguingly off-beam and satisfying. Unfortunately you get about one per episode.
And then – well, that’s about it. For ages and ages.

We go round the world (travel costs were presumably where most of the series’ rumoured $200m budget was spent) meeting the characters. There’s a sheriff in Oklahoma (played by Sam Neill) on – yes! – his last day before retirement, called out to track down two men who went missing at about the same time as a crop circle-cum-crater appeared in a local cornfield. There’s a happily married couple with two children in Long Island, whose home is the only one left standing when their neighbourhood is destroyed by the reverberations of some unseen impact; a delicate schoolboy and his bully in London; a coachload of children on a school trip who crash into a quarry during a meteor shower . . .

For the full article see: The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/22/invasion-review-apple-tv)


https://youtu.be/DlaHxL3mHAU

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[Moses]

==== with winter coming

you should check "See" series, second season just finished. Also science fiction, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11197456 score: 8.5 IMDB

5 seasons of "Billions" will also fill your vacant time 8.4 IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4270492

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5788792 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 3 seasons, 8.7 IMDB

Pose https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7562112 3 seasons, 8.5 IMDB

[Nirish guy]

So is it only me who thinks Apple TV in general is just a total waste of money with a load of crap programming on it ??

I bought it when it first came out, went to cancel it and they kept giving me another several months free, I eventually ended up cancelling it once they intended to charge me for it. I can safely say I must have found no more than maybe 5 programmes on it that interested me during that time. My bf then announced all excitedly that he'd just subscribed to Apple TV and sat down bursting to watch it. I reminded him that I / we had it and it was crap, he said I was mistaken ( that wasn't quite the words he used as his description involved me perhaps having dementia or something !). Anyway so he / we sat down to watch it, he flicked through a ton of programme listings, both went MEH, he chucked the Apple remote down and stuck on something else.

So, just me / us then ??

[Moses]

Apple TV has very "bumping" trend - they do great series and at the same time they make trash... label has no quality warranties... HBO is more selective in quality, also Netflix is mostly good