That is not a "slow burn" It's like watching a glacier slowly moving over millennia. Sam Neal appears in the first episode and then immediately dies. That story line is then forever abandoned. Some kids suffer from nose bleeding. Eight episodes in, we don't know why. There is an invasion in the background we never get to see. We just hear messages telling people to evacuate this and that area. People are telling us that armies were decimated, military bases destroyed but we get to see nothing. Where, how, who did it.. nothing. Rarely, we see some insect like creatures that kill random people with a sting, but can also be killed by mild hits on the head while passively accepting their fate, while various characters tell the audience how lethal these creatures are supposed to be. No they are not. Don't tell us how lethal they are, show us. They don't even have any kind of real, actual weapons. These things decimated armies? Really? 90% of the show is melodrama, that has really nothing to do with the "invasion". The husband is cheating on his wife and the wife is cheating on her husband. if you like melodramas, the invisible alien invasion premise will spoil it for you. If you like sci-fi shows, this is not really a sci-fi show. if you like slow burn shows, you need some fire and something to slowly burn and there is nothing there either.
well, you're on Season 1, if u read the reviews before watching the show then u would know that the show is not your typical Alien Invasion Show, however this is Season 1, the problem with this type of show is u either get annoying characters like in Another Life on Netflix, which also has a somewhat convoluted plot, but the Netflix Show isn't really that bad, could have done with a better budget, and less annoying characters in the first half of Season 1, then u have the French Show : War of The Worlds, which has a very similar plot as Invasion, though, Invasion is slower then that show is, but the French show also is slow, i believe "V" also was a slow show aswell, all of these shows deal with an Alien Invasion, and they are all somewhat slow, except for Another Life, but that show has alot of it's own problems aswell, i think it is a genre specific problem, but i also feel like Season 1 of this show is leading to something alot more exciting in Season 2, also if u didn't know, but i am assuming u do, that the last episode of Season 1 is literally called : The First Day, so yes the show is somewhat experimental in the fact that it is leading to something greater in Season 2, but the main point of Season 1 is to familiarize yourself with the characters in Season 1, would be a pretty boring show if there is no character depth whatsoever, i am so tired of audiences just wanting action scenes 24/7, wanting a perfect show / film, etc, obviously there are shows, and films that are not perfect, but i think atleast in scifi it is moreso about the ideas then the action, yes action is nice to have here and there, but at some point if a film, or show doesn't make u question things then what is the point of that show, or film, i think modern audiences would benefit alot from just going into a show, or film, and not worrying about what reviewers say aswell, draw your own conclusions, and give a show more then a few episodes, or even 1 Season to first of all get itself off the ground, so to speak, and then to wow audiences with a story that it is building towards, especially in there high budget, multi season shows...
@@JjAnterosI think the finale of invasion shows us that the invasion force shown in the show was the scouting force and the real threat is here as seen in the final scene with the new massive ship arriving.
Amazing review! Couldn't agree more. I'd just add: Mitsuki is the worst character ever. Period. So shallow. Just cries. Just is "the one" who can do shit just because. OMG just looking at this woman at this point makes me as pissed off as it was to look at Skyler in Breaking Bad. Jesus Christ how can a show so bad be renewed for a 2nd season? I'd bet a million dollars it won't get to the 3rd.
One thing I hate about this show is despite the characters running around confused in the midst of a global invasion, they seem to have no interest in finding out what's actually happening.
Would you risk your life trying to find out something that you might not figure out .this show is trying to be realistic.season two is about why and them figuring it out
@@Shevy_SebyIt's a show about a freaking alien invasion. If I want believable I'd go watch any soup opera from my country that deals with cheating husband, lesbian shenanigans, bullied kids and whatnot. This show is the worst thing I've ever watched in my entire life.
@@Henrique.Souza0601 couldn't agree more, it's so bad every time I see promotional articles about season 2 I get triggered at how much of a waste of time season 1 was. Just the worst amateurish scribbles for ideas loosely duct taped together into a ball with hundreds of millions of dollars thrown at it. An obscene waste.
@@Shevy_Sebythis show is not trying to be realistic let's take the kid that keeps having seizures black girl follows him to his house finds his mom is dead and what does the black girl do tends to his needs all the way up until he dies. in real life if I see your mom is dead im going to go find my mom next she doesn't even think about finding her mom until all the aliens are dead.
I just watched the first episode and I'm here to see if it's worth continuing. I think some people confuse "slow-pace" with "quality". If 2 hour length movies can tell a satisfying story, then there's no reason to have a one hour episode achieve nothing except introduce you to boring characters (one of whom is not relevant to the rest of the story). The other thing that bugs me is that they seem to be drawing out the story as if the events are a mystery: the show is titled "Invasion" and the promo blurb says it's about an alien invasion. Sure, the characters need to discover there's an alien invasion happening, but as a viewer, I don't have the patience to wade through 10 hours of viewing to find out what I already knew before even watching the series.
Do not continue, unless you want the best possible example of how far people in the TV industry are willing to go when it comes to ignoring the fact the material they're working with is completely incoherent garbage. Fair play to them, they need to work, and there is clearly a lot of effort being put in, some great looking shots, some great performances (particularly from the young kids in the London bus crash thread), I just find it absurd the writers and directors can put this all together and look at the mess they've made with a straight face, are they insane? Are they being blackmailed?
That was exactly how I felt. I would watch two characters having an asinine conversation, forward it by 10 minutes and they are still having their rubbish conversation and still at the same point. After the second episode, I began to fast-forward by several minutes yet the story never progressed forward.
Sam Neill was used as a advertising ploy ,you see his name attached and think ,ahh OK so he is usually great in things even tv land doing the cop in peaky blinders ,and then you find out they hadn't really got the budget you think they must have with a few familiar actor faces and BooM they knock him off in the 1st episode because they hadn't got any more money to have him in another episode ....sneaky mo fos
I’m sure they’ll kill the husband soon. When you have a male character that they portray as a cheater and make the mom hero like then you know the toxic male will die while they’ll keep anyone lesbian alive And heroic
Sad to say, I watched all of it. Hoping it would pick up. Maybe it got to second gear by episode 8 or 9, but then shifted down again. Last episode could have been 15 more minutes tacked on number 9. I was very tired of the common tragic story tropes. The characters didn’t make sense at times, which meant all of their actions were useless. Several plot items were confusing. Why was everyone trying to kill that family all of a sudden? What was up with that very odd debriefing of the army guy? Why wouldn’t the mom just tell her kids that their dad died to protect them? For that matter, why didn’t they just stay at the diner with the food and shelter? Honestly, I may have dozed a bit. The mysterious aliens was the best part. The confusing characters with the inundated tragic back stories detracted from whatever the writers were trying to convey. Biggest complaint: the one episode from Sam Neill who was put in the trailers just for click bait. Not cool.
Wasn't that confusing. They were trying to kill the family to get the weapon that could kill the aliens. The debriefing was showing us the aliens we saw on the series were just programmed soldiers of the actual aliens. If they'd just stayed at the diner that wouldn't really of served the story very well.
In a word: *Hollow* It had potential. Nicely shot, reasonable idea (first person perspective), but the execution was just empty and clickbait endings. There’s a season 2 coming and I’m convinced that’ll be clickbait too, unless they _actually push the damned story forward_ for once.
First season gets you interested but frustrated as they give you nothing, second season realized it had nothing to give so just wonders and wonders. Probably the worst ending of any season I have ever seen. Don’t even get me started with the annoying family. It had so much potential to be a modern War of the Worlds type with a more interesting alien but we still know nothing.
Couldnt agree more. Watched with hopeful anticipation....This could be the realistic scifi invasion/alien story we've been waiting for...Nope. Boring, repetitive and too diffuse. Also, the suber bleached out look didnt help either. Too many characters and not enoujgh forward advancement of the plot. Foundation,now there's a gripping well written series!
I just finished watching it and I gotta say it was kind of meh to me. I enjoyed the way the invasion was slow and methodical so most of the world didn't know what was really happening but it just never got any better for me. It was slow which didn't bother me at first but it just crawls along the entire time with no real depth other than pushing these characters to the point where I just didn't care anymore. I thought if they stuck with Sham Neil more and did something with the small town discovering what these strange events really meant it would have been cool but nope killed him first episode and they never went back. Ugh and the jumping around between these characters and barely ever showing the aliens or the "attacks" except for a few times didn't build any tension for me. War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise is a great example of building tension and then expanding upon it. This show is just about below average for me.
Episode 9 is literally switching threads to exactly identical sequences that don't advance the plot at all. Japanese girl crying with the headphones- Soldier walking around the hospital - Family running through the forest - Japanese girl.... I think this was the most annoying show i've ever seen.
I watched first two episodes. I'm fine with the pacing. I find it interesting enough moment to moment that I want to keep watching.There was a slight alien reveal at the end of episode two and that's enough for me for now. We know the alien action is coming. If the invasion happened all at once, shoot em up, bombs, ray beams, whatever -- then the only place to go is more and bigger destruction. Then you end up with Marvel style or whatever. As to the pattern of characters going through a hard time in their lives and then something strange happens, would it be better to watch them living a perfectly great life and then something strange happens? They can't really avoid something strange happening, we don't want them to avoid something strange happening, it's an alien invasion! That's why we're watching -- or not -- I guess for some of us.
Yes. It's just endless slow-motion tease, isn't it? It looks and sounds great; the acting is excellent. But the script and the plotting and the timing.... woeful. Yes, we want quieter moments, we want character development and a bit of introspection. But this is SCIENCE FICTION. We also want some, y'know, science fiction.
I like the show but yeah the slow burn is a little too slow...and I love slow burners. And I do agree that the all these sorrowful stories are just so cliche and over done now. The show needs a ton of tighter editing. Clip here a clip there and you would have a much better series so far. But it's not bad just could be better. So far.
I have always been fascinated by people who take one thought, a sentence at best, and make a 10 minutes video about it. Takes courage to allow yourself to do that in front of other people. And then to do it for a living... talking about boring stuff. mind-blowing!
It’s becoming very clear that a lot of series are spread out over too many series. So much fluff. I knew I had started invasion before… fast forward a few years and thought try it again to watch the whole thing. I’m now 4 episodes (4 hours) and realizing I did watch this far before, forgetting most of it. Also realizing the formula with this show is way too much fluff and the stories could be told in a much tighter paced movie. I think I’m gonna drop this yet again and move onto something worth my valuable time.
Good premise. Awful execution. It just takes too long to develop. You get tired by the end of the 1st few episodes. In contrast to See and Foundation, excellent pacing all around.
3 Episodes in and there has been little to no action , wait let me rephrase that, there has been ZERO action. No reason to watch this at all it’s a waste of time.
I'm watching the series on movie HD There are no subtitles so I can't understand what they're saying so that's part of the series that I'm lost on I don't know if I'm missing something interesting or not. I guess they're speaking Japanese I have no idea what they're saying. So I don't really want to get apple tv i already watched season one about to start season 2.
I give up on the show. I watched 4 episodes and it’s just way too slow for me. When I find myself playing around on my phone while the episodes are playing and don’t care if u miss something, that’s a bad sign.
Another smoldering show that I watch cause not much else going on. The once I like seem to come in short seasons like Yellowstone and it’s spin-offs. This show will be like many that goes a season or three and ands with nothing.
Invasion is hands down the absolute worst Sci-Fi series I’ve watched in years. It is so fricking boring I start rooting for ALL the characters to get killed. Why the hell would anyone want to watch a bunch or miserable people with miserable lives muddle about and complain. It’s total garbage.
This show starts at episode 7. So weird. I taped out then a friend told me it gets better and I gave it a go. Can't say I regret that. Its so good after 7th episode.
I feel like the creators of this show wanted to draw in the people who don't work and/or watch daytime soaps and the people who like sci-fi. This is a mistake. Those of us who watch sci-fi don't particularly like melodrama and this show is completely full of it. In fact it's not really sci-fi. It's simply drama. It's super annoying. I hated every character..... Every single one, old and young. They were all annoying.
It was honestly way too slow, I skipped to the last episode and that’s when things finally got really good go back to it watch the last episode episode six you won’t regret it
The only plotline in the show I didn't enjoy was the american in Afghanistan because the only thing that happened with him and the aliens early on was when he got farted on by that tripod and then after that its just him being an ass to everyone he comes across. I am only on episode 7 so something might happen later on
This show is a disappointment. So much mellow drama esp with the mom and cheating husband. Pleeeeeese. Plus this whole Japanese lesbian storyline is so bs. Like people care anymore who is with who. Plus they have to look hot too?
I'm paying 2.5 dollars a month for Apple bundle , for that much im getting more than i bargained for😆... Although the story (till episode 5 at least) is mostly uninteresting, bland & glacial, the acting is pretty decent & the camera work,cinematography & locations are excellent
from the fifth episode its getting better now!! It does feels more of a drama show, than a scify show! I have to admit that for certain the first 3 episodes where hard to watch!
they had the opportunity to binge it. not us. the show is a weekly episode with 5 story lines being told per episode jumping around back and forth and it's just frustrating. The only way they could save the negative reactions is to drop the remaining 7 episodes.
It’s painfully dull. The script is hammy and the characters are all so wet and unconvincing. The naval gazing and self importance has me cringing through out, and still no invasion by episode 03. Yawn.
I may be considered just a manbaby and I don't care, but when I watch a series about an alien invasion, I want to see the alien invasion. I've 0 interest in the personal dramas of the human characters. And for those comparing it to Spielberg's War of the Worlds, I disagree: there you see A LOT of the invasion. The problem with this series is that it's NOT about the invasion, it could as well be a war drama where the war plays second fiddle to personal dramas of boring characters. And John's review just shows how this series is total cliche.
I love the show, I think it's fantastic. People who don't enjoy slowness has a point too in today's streaming world of instant gratification. You need something quick to get people interested but I feel this is like a 10 hours movie split into 10 episodes where you have to judge it after all 10 episodes are done. I think the biggest misstep is the weekly episode format where people can't get from beginning to end in 1 setting.
it has nothing to do with instant gratification what pretentious dribble, the show is just spread too thin across points of view and thus the story progresses very slowly. The drama is interesting but a lot of it could be compressed, cut out or told with more effecient story devices. The truth is I can safely skip through half the scenes in this show and lose NOTHING. spending time on something for the sake of it is not a virtue if it provides fuck all value.
I've just finished watching episode 2 and all I want to know is does that snot brain bully in the school bus crash finally get the beat down he deserves? Seems like the writers are setting the character up for a crash and burn..I smell Lord of the Flies here...
No, absolutely not, it's not worth trying. This is pure, unadulterated audience abuse. An unspectacular story led by protagonists that range from ineffectual to contemptible. The entirety of seasons 1 and 2 could be easily combined into the first act of a dull feature length film. Don't give away your valuable time like I did.
I HATE THIS FKN SHOW!! FIRE EVERYONE INVOLVED IN MAKING ME WANT TO SEE THE PLOT DEVELOP. Its a bullshit love story like we gaf about matters of the heart with explosions everywhere and aliens. Each and every damn character has some bs heart strings going on. And just think they got a 2nd season out of apple tv smfh
As someone who found the first 2 seasons of Game of Thrones to be boring, but Seasons 3 through 7 was amazing, I'm more willing than most to give a series that I really want to like at least a full season's chance to hook me. And let me say, without spoilers, that I enjoyed season 1 and I'm looking forward to season 2. I'm not a huge fan of the "ensemble" style storytelling in modern TV shows where we jump between multiple different people's perspectives, but if they are going to do so, they have to stick with those characters and don't introduce as many side characters in the future because my brain can only remember so many personalities. And that's what they did here, I'm happy to say.
you're on Season 1 Episode 3, Season 1, Episode 3, u need to take a step back, and reexamine exactly what is going on here, this is not a film, it is a show, i am sure u have watched a film before and hated it, and that film was probably from the 1980s, not to sound ageist, but dude we are in 2020s now, shows are expected to go on for multiple seasons, especially high budget shows, i believe the last episode of Season 1 is actually called "The First Day", it's also a show, not a film about an alien invasion, ofcourse they can't just have aliens blowing entire cities up in the first episode, i believe that the French War Of The Worlds Show takes its sweet time too in Season 1, it's nothing new dude, and the fact that u either don't know about this French Scifi Show, or have not seen it is honestly quite terrifying considering u are sitting here talking about a Scifi Show, and can't even compare it to another show, instead u are probably comparing it to Independence Day, or 2012, or some crap like that, dude those are FILMS, this is a SHOW, it makes me so irate when people talk about shows as if they are supposed to be films, yes, u have watched 3hrs of this show, how many hours have u watched of Game of Thrones again? Oh and i heard Game of Thrones last couple Seasons sucked too, but u guys prefer to watch 80hrs of Game of Thrones, yet can't give this 3hrs? much less 10hrs? it's ridiculous
Terrible screenwriting. Unlikable characters. That actress who play The mom who husband cheated on, have no line.. no dialogue.. can she speak? She’s in perpetual shock WTH !! Same with the Japanese girl . It’s like A 12 years old wrote this crap ! Awful awful show. Episode 5 was my last, I just can’t continue to watch this trash. After 5 hours NOTHING NADA RIEN ! I hate this show so much,
I’m currently on Episode 8 and I wish it focused more on the Japanese Plotline and the Trevante storyline , other than that I truly enjoyed this show so far and it’s not bad at all.
Just started watching it to catch up for season 2 which was higher rated than this. I love it, it is excellent in my opinion. It is a slow burn but it really suits the show to me. It reminds me of the old series of The Stand. I feel it is a show that will be appreciated more as time goes on.
This show is one of the most boringly slow burning shows ever made! the stories are very boring and unrealistic, it's very badly written I had to skip a lot of the parts, especially the one with the family and the kids! Don't waste your time I'm on episode 7 and still nothing interesting happened....
It's a great series, an alien invasion done from the aspect of people on the ground who have no idea what is going on, there are plenty of other shoot em up alpha bro invasion series where aliens get splished and the us president saves the day by shooting nukes into space it's a disaster movie from a different perspective
Lot of complainers say "nothing has happened". This translates to "I want action, action, action", "because I am immature and are part of the dumbed down society we have today"
I couldn't disagree more. Most shows get to "the thing" way too quick, and completely gloss over the 'the fall' society and skip right to "ten years later."
Can't disagree more with a lot of these comments. Invasion is incredible TV which has me completely hooked after 4 episodes. The cliff hanger endings to each episode are so good and the production values 6:13 are superb . It's worth remembering that JC has liked the most abysmal trash over the last few years (Shazam is complete shite but he thinks it's good). Anyway, it's just a thought.
That's not paying much attention to this channel John reviews all sorts of films and his favourites of a given year are often outside of the comics films
The probem with this series is they have FIVE! storylines being told in an episode instead of focusing on one per episode. So it keeps jumping around back and forth between these individuals and it made it SUPER SLOOOOOOW BURN! i was interested specially the Bullied Kid in UK and the Family in US but it's frustrating that they chose to do this on a weekly series.
Nobody noticed how most of the men are depicted.. ? it has become a comon theme in modern movies and series... i finally felt like puking when there was this scene were ahmed was trying to save his own ass and dump his family.. are you kidding me.. ?? how realistic is that ? how many of us knows a father/ husband dumping their own family to save his own .The Cheating part is understandable.. but no man can ever be that cowardly..
You haven't met many men ... Husbands or people in general. Maybe where you live your men wouldn't abandon their families. Or you could just be upset because the character shares the same name as you.😂
Unlike the other 2 commenters here, I agree with you. Even a cheating man who was about to leave his wife, which I find disgusting, would not just abandon his kids because it's shown to us that he does genuinely care about his kids & he's an active part of their lives. All modern shows/movies depict men as hapless & of lower moral standing than women. Throw in some "white" skin, & now you're sure to see a man who is just an absolute joke of a human being as he fails at every single thing he ever tries....unless it's a star vehicle for Thomas Cruise.
@@scottsherman5262A blonde hair blue eyed white boy is literally propped up like the savior in this show including rising from the dead and everything so miss me with the race baiting. And Trevonte is the main male lead who just drips with testosterone plus in season 2 that same wife finds another alpha male. Why don’t you let stories play out for once.
It's not a slow burn but more like a creeping death. All the characters in every story arc are frustratingly annoying. From the flip-flopping wannabe doc mom, to the "i gotta get home" soldier to the love stricken "my way or the highway" space technician. I thought the kids were the only saving grace but now that we are unto episode eight, I just want a space nuke to drop on them.
That is not a "slow burn" It's like watching a glacier slowly moving over millennia. Sam Neal appears in the first episode and then immediately dies. That story line is then forever abandoned. Some kids suffer from nose bleeding. Eight episodes in, we don't know why.
There is an invasion in the background we never get to see. We just hear messages telling people to evacuate this and that area. People are telling us that armies were decimated, military bases destroyed but we get to see nothing. Where, how, who did it.. nothing.
Rarely, we see some insect like creatures that kill random people with a sting, but can also be killed by mild hits on the head while passively accepting their fate, while various characters tell the audience how lethal these creatures are supposed to be. No they are not. Don't tell us how lethal they are, show us. They don't even have any kind of real, actual weapons. These things decimated armies? Really?
90% of the show is melodrama, that has really nothing to do with the "invasion". The husband is cheating on his wife and the wife is cheating on her husband. if you like melodramas, the invisible alien invasion premise will spoil it for you. If you like sci-fi shows, this is not really a sci-fi show. if you like slow burn shows, you need some fire and something to slowly burn and there is nothing there either.
Do you think he’s really dead?
well, you're on Season 1, if u read the reviews before watching the show then u would know that the show is not your typical Alien Invasion Show, however this is Season 1, the problem with this type of show is u either get annoying characters like in Another Life on Netflix, which also has a somewhat convoluted plot, but the Netflix Show isn't really that bad, could have done with a better budget, and less annoying characters in the first half of Season 1, then u have the French Show : War of The Worlds, which has a very similar plot as Invasion, though, Invasion is slower then that show is, but the French show also is slow, i believe "V" also was a slow show aswell, all of these shows deal with an Alien Invasion, and they are all somewhat slow, except for Another Life, but that show has alot of it's own problems aswell, i think it is a genre specific problem, but i also feel like Season 1 of this show is leading to something alot more exciting in Season 2, also if u didn't know, but i am assuming u do, that the last episode of Season 1 is literally called : The First Day, so yes the show is somewhat experimental in the fact that it is leading to something greater in Season 2, but the main point of Season 1 is to familiarize yourself with the characters in Season 1, would be a pretty boring show if there is no character depth whatsoever, i am so tired of audiences just wanting action scenes 24/7, wanting a perfect show / film, etc, obviously there are shows, and films that are not perfect, but i think atleast in scifi it is moreso about the ideas then the action, yes action is nice to have here and there, but at some point if a film, or show doesn't make u question things then what is the point of that show, or film, i think modern audiences would benefit alot from just going into a show, or film, and not worrying about what reviewers say aswell, draw your own conclusions, and give a show more then a few episodes, or even 1 Season to first of all get itself off the ground, so to speak, and then to wow audiences with a story that it is building towards, especially in there high budget, multi season shows...
@@JjAnterosI think the finale of invasion shows us that the invasion force shown in the show was the scouting force and the real threat is here as seen in the final scene with the new massive ship arriving.
Amazing review! Couldn't agree more. I'd just add: Mitsuki is the worst character ever. Period. So shallow. Just cries. Just is "the one" who can do shit just because. OMG just looking at this woman at this point makes me as pissed off as it was to look at Skyler in Breaking Bad. Jesus Christ how can a show so bad be renewed for a 2nd season? I'd bet a million dollars it won't get to the 3rd.
One thing I hate about this show is despite the characters running around confused in the midst of a global invasion, they seem to have no interest in finding out what's actually happening.
Would you risk your life trying to find out something that you might not figure out .this show is trying to be realistic.season two is about why and them figuring it out
Usually I’d agree with you but after seeing how the majority of people reacted to COVID-19, that’s honestly the most believable part of the show
@@Shevy_SebyIt's a show about a freaking alien invasion. If I want believable I'd go watch any soup opera from my country that deals with cheating husband, lesbian shenanigans, bullied kids and whatnot. This show is the worst thing I've ever watched in my entire life.
@@Henrique.Souza0601 couldn't agree more, it's so bad every time I see promotional articles about season 2 I get triggered at how much of a waste of time season 1 was. Just the worst amateurish scribbles for ideas loosely duct taped together into a ball with hundreds of millions of dollars thrown at it. An obscene waste.
@@Shevy_Sebythis show is not trying to be realistic let's take the kid that keeps having seizures black girl follows him to his house finds his mom is dead and what does the black girl do tends to his needs all the way up until he dies. in real life if I see your mom is dead im going to go find my mom next she doesn't even think about finding her mom until all the aliens are dead.
I just watched the first episode and I'm here to see if it's worth continuing. I think some people confuse "slow-pace" with "quality". If 2 hour length movies can tell a satisfying story, then there's no reason to have a one hour episode achieve nothing except introduce you to boring characters (one of whom is not relevant to the rest of the story). The other thing that bugs me is that they seem to be drawing out the story as if the events are a mystery: the show is titled "Invasion" and the promo blurb says it's about an alien invasion. Sure, the characters need to discover there's an alien invasion happening, but as a viewer, I don't have the patience to wade through 10 hours of viewing to find out what I already knew before even watching the series.
Do not continue, unless you want the best possible example of how far people in the TV industry are willing to go when it comes to ignoring the fact the material they're working with is completely incoherent garbage. Fair play to them, they need to work, and there is clearly a lot of effort being put in, some great looking shots, some great performances (particularly from the young kids in the London bus crash thread), I just find it absurd the writers and directors can put this all together and look at the mess they've made with a straight face, are they insane? Are they being blackmailed?
@@datashatI wasted my time I can’t watch after episode 6
Bro if I could shake your hand, I could; I couldn’t have said it any better
I can walk away cook my dinner and back the story is still the same.
That was exactly how I felt. I would watch two characters having an asinine conversation, forward it by 10 minutes and they are still having their rubbish conversation and still at the same point. After the second episode, I began to fast-forward by several minutes yet the story never progressed forward.
hahahaha within the first 3 mins i was forwarding non stop and now i’m here lol
me 5 ep in and I still wondering where is the invasion !!
Sam Neill was used as a advertising ploy ,you see his name attached and think ,ahh OK so he is usually great in things even tv land doing the cop in peaky blinders ,and then you find out they hadn't really got the budget you think they must have with a few familiar actor faces and BooM they knock him off in the 1st episode because they hadn't got any more money to have him in another episode ....sneaky mo fos
This show is the perfect example of the sentence "Some muddle their waters to make them look deep"
The Japanese lesbian story is the hardest to believe in. The best characters. Are the sheriff and the Mom with two kids. Hope it gets better.
I’m sure they’ll kill the husband soon. When you have a male character that they portray as a cheater and make the mom hero like then you know the toxic male will die while they’ll keep anyone lesbian alive And heroic
yeah, very typical. @@Chris-ey7zy
Sad to say, I watched all of it. Hoping it would pick up. Maybe it got to second gear by episode 8 or 9, but then shifted down again. Last episode could have been 15 more minutes tacked on number 9. I was very tired of the common tragic story tropes. The characters didn’t make sense at times, which meant all of their actions were useless. Several plot items were confusing. Why was everyone trying to kill that family all of a sudden? What was up with that very odd debriefing of the army guy? Why wouldn’t the mom just tell her kids that their dad died to protect them? For that matter, why didn’t they just stay at the diner with the food and shelter? Honestly, I may have dozed a bit. The mysterious aliens was the best part. The confusing characters with the inundated tragic back stories detracted from whatever the writers were trying to convey. Biggest complaint: the one episode from Sam Neill who was put in the trailers just for click bait. Not cool.
Wasn't that confusing. They were trying to kill the family to get the weapon that could kill the aliens. The debriefing was showing us the aliens we saw on the series were just programmed soldiers of the actual aliens. If they'd just stayed at the diner that wouldn't really of served the story very well.
In a word: *Hollow*
It had potential. Nicely shot, reasonable idea (first person perspective), but the execution was just empty and clickbait endings. There’s a season 2 coming and I’m convinced that’ll be clickbait too, unless they _actually push the damned story forward_ for once.
I watched 5 episodes before giving up. Still nothing happens! Not a slow burn but a no burn!
First season gets you interested but frustrated as they give you nothing, second season realized it had nothing to give so just wonders and wonders. Probably the worst ending of any season I have ever seen. Don’t even get me started with the annoying family. It had so much potential to be a modern War of the Worlds type with a more interesting alien but we still know nothing.
Couldnt agree more. Watched with hopeful anticipation....This could be the realistic scifi invasion/alien story we've been waiting for...Nope. Boring, repetitive and too diffuse. Also, the suber bleached out look didnt help either. Too many characters and not enoujgh forward advancement of the plot. Foundation,now there's a gripping well written series!
Foundation is awesome. This is a dumpster fire
I just finished watching it and I gotta say it was kind of meh to me. I enjoyed the way the invasion was slow and methodical so most of the world didn't know what was really happening but it just never got any better for me. It was slow which didn't bother me at first but it just crawls along the entire time with no real depth other than pushing these characters to the point where I just didn't care anymore. I thought if they stuck with Sham Neil more and did something with the small town discovering what these strange events really meant it would have been cool but nope killed him first episode and they never went back. Ugh and the jumping around between these characters and barely ever showing the aliens or the "attacks" except for a few times didn't build any tension for me. War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise is a great example of building tension and then expanding upon it. This show is just about below average for me.
Episode 9 is literally switching threads to exactly identical sequences that don't advance the plot at all. Japanese girl crying with the headphones- Soldier walking around the hospital - Family running through the forest - Japanese girl....
I think this was the most annoying show i've ever seen.
Spot on. It was a muddled mess in my opinion.
I watched first two episodes. I'm fine with the pacing. I find it interesting enough moment to moment that I want to keep watching.There was a slight alien reveal at the end of episode two and that's enough for me for now. We know the alien action is coming. If the invasion happened all at once, shoot em up, bombs, ray beams, whatever -- then the only place to go is more and bigger destruction. Then you end up with Marvel style or whatever. As to the pattern of characters going through a hard time in their lives and then something strange happens, would it be better to watch them living a perfectly great life and then something strange happens? They can't really avoid something strange happening, we don't want them to avoid something strange happening, it's an alien invasion! That's why we're watching -- or not -- I guess for some of us.
It's been 6 episoded now and the 'action' didn't come. This show is terrible.
I'm 7 in an still nothing has happened.
Don't waste your time!
Yes. It's just endless slow-motion tease, isn't it?
It looks and sounds great; the acting is excellent.
But the script and the plotting and the timing.... woeful.
Yes, we want quieter moments, we want character development and a bit of introspection.
But this is SCIENCE FICTION.
We also want some, y'know, science fiction.
I like the show but yeah the slow burn is a little too slow...and I love slow burners. And I do agree that the all these sorrowful stories are just so cliche and over done now. The show needs a ton of tighter editing. Clip here a clip there and you would have a much better series so far.
But it's not bad just could be better. So far.
It's interesting, but it is so drawn out that it ends up being pretentious.
I have always been fascinated by people who take one thought, a sentence at best, and make a 10 minutes video about it. Takes courage to allow yourself to do that in front of other people. And then to do it for a living... talking about boring stuff. mind-blowing!
It’s becoming very clear that a lot of series are spread out over too many series. So much fluff. I knew I had started invasion before… fast forward a few years and thought try it again to watch the whole thing. I’m now 4 episodes (4 hours) and realizing I did watch this far before, forgetting most of it. Also realizing the formula with this show is way too much fluff and the stories could be told in a much tighter paced movie. I think I’m gonna drop this yet again and move onto something worth my valuable time.
Good premise. Awful execution. It just takes too long to develop. You get tired by the end of the 1st few episodes. In contrast to See and Foundation, excellent pacing all around.
I watched 3 episodes. If it wasn’t about aliens I’d give up. It’s kind of scatterbrained
Too slow even for a 10 eps season.
3 Episodes in and there has been little to no action , wait let me rephrase that, there has been ZERO action. No reason to watch this at all it’s a waste of time.
I'm watching the series on movie HD There are no subtitles so I can't understand what they're saying so that's part of the series that I'm lost on I don't know if I'm missing something interesting or not. I guess they're speaking Japanese I have no idea what they're saying. So I don't really want to get apple tv i already watched season one about to start season 2.
Need season 3 like NOW!
I felt the same way, but by the middle of EP 4 it really picks up and overall I enjoyed it and look forward to the next season.
Just finished the second episode... Nothing happened. NOTHING. HAPPENED.
I give up on the show. I watched 4 episodes and it’s just way too slow for me. When I find myself playing around on my phone while the episodes are playing and don’t care if u miss something, that’s a bad sign.
Another smoldering show that I watch cause not much else going on. The once I like seem to come in short seasons like Yellowstone and it’s spin-offs. This show will be like many that goes a season or three and ands with nothing.
Invasion is hands down the absolute worst Sci-Fi series I’ve watched in years. It is so fricking boring I start rooting for ALL the characters to get killed. Why the hell would anyone want to watch a bunch or miserable people with miserable lives muddle about and complain. It’s total garbage.
Wait till you find out that Sam Neil is only in one episode
The hyper diversity in London is utterly appealing 😢
I agree 100 percent with you
This show starts at episode 7. So weird. I taped out then a friend told me it gets better and I gave it a go. Can't say I regret that. Its so good after 7th episode.
I am losing hope. have been watching this show in 1.5 Speed
starts at episode 6 actually
I'm 7 or 8 episodes in and still clicking with not much going on.
I totally agree with you. I really wanted to like this but its very very slow. I lost interest
I am enjoying this show
This show is watchable and interesting if you are liberal with scene skipping.
Like 10-15 mins at a time.
I was just tired of the damn girl saying ‘Hinata’ every episode.
I feel like the creators of this show wanted to draw in the people who don't work and/or watch daytime soaps and the people who like sci-fi. This is a mistake. Those of us who watch sci-fi don't particularly like melodrama and this show is completely full of it. In fact it's not really sci-fi. It's simply drama. It's super annoying. I hated every character..... Every single one, old and young. They were all annoying.
I’m enjoying it!
It was honestly way too slow, I skipped to the last episode and that’s when things finally got really good go back to it watch the last episode episode six you won’t regret it
The only plotline in the show I didn't enjoy was the american in Afghanistan because the only thing that happened with him and the aliens early on was when he got farted on by that tripod and then after that its just him being an ass to everyone he comes across. I am only on episode 7 so something might happen later on
John giving up on this show after 3 hours is enough for me to not even try it.
This show is a disappointment. So much mellow drama esp with the mom and cheating husband. Pleeeeeese. Plus this whole Japanese lesbian storyline is so bs. Like people care anymore who is with who. Plus they have to look hot too?
@@Chris-ey7zy Clearly you care. How is it bs?
@@roku6666 cardboard characters.
I'm paying 2.5 dollars a month for Apple bundle , for that much im getting more than i bargained for😆... Although the story (till episode 5 at least) is mostly uninteresting, bland & glacial, the acting is pretty decent & the camera work,cinematography & locations are excellent
from the fifth episode its getting better now!! It does feels more of a drama show, than a scify show! I have to admit that for certain the first 3 episodes where hard to watch!
You have a very weird definition of "getting better".
I heard it will be picking up pace from a reviewer who've seen all episodes,
they had the opportunity to binge it. not us. the show is a weekly episode with 5 story lines being told per episode jumping around back and forth and it's just frustrating. The only way they could save the negative reactions is to drop the remaining 7 episodes.
I was about to give up on Invasion but episode 6 was good. But yeah, the show was so typical and re-hashed. The 1st 5 episodes went nowhere
I noped out on episode 2.
It’s painfully dull. The script is hammy and the characters are all so wet and unconvincing. The naval gazing and self importance has me cringing through out, and still no invasion by episode 03. Yawn.
I liked it.
Imagine waiting for a guy on TH-cam to tell you if you’ll like a show or not..
I may be considered just a manbaby and I don't care, but when I watch a series about an alien invasion, I want to see the alien invasion. I've 0 interest in the personal dramas of the human characters. And for those comparing it to Spielberg's War of the Worlds, I disagree: there you see A LOT of the invasion. The problem with this series is that it's NOT about the invasion, it could as well be a war drama where the war plays second fiddle to personal dramas of boring characters. And John's review just shows how this series is total cliche.
I love the show, I think it's fantastic. People who don't enjoy slowness has a point too in today's streaming world of instant gratification. You need something quick to get people interested but I feel this is like a 10 hours movie split into 10 episodes where you have to judge it after all 10 episodes are done. I think the biggest misstep is the weekly episode format where people can't get from beginning to end in 1 setting.
Dude 4 episodes in and it's still nothing and super fucking boring, The Fuck You Talkin about?
it has nothing to do with instant gratification what pretentious dribble, the show is just spread too thin across points of view and thus the story progresses very slowly. The drama is interesting but a lot of it could be compressed, cut out or told with more effecient story devices. The truth is I can safely skip through half the scenes in this show and lose NOTHING. spending time on something for the sake of it is not a virtue if it provides fuck all value.
Watch Foundation its awesome!
Another show where the writers just impose artificial conflicts between the characters that make no sense.
I tapped out after 15 minutes. It wasn't doing anything new and it was sooooo slow
I've just finished watching episode 2 and all I want to know is does that snot brain bully in the school bus crash finally get the beat down he deserves? Seems like the writers are setting the character up for a crash and burn..I smell Lord of the Flies here...
wtf was apple thinking? its slow to the point of unbearable, 5th episode in my thinking of going to the finale to end this tedious bs
The show is really good. It has some holes(like the cheating husband), but it's a good show.
Definitely a slow burn but I like it. 4th ep is still another slow burner though lol
i unsubed apple tv+ after watching this tv show. wtf they created !!
No, absolutely not, it's not worth trying. This is pure, unadulterated audience abuse. An unspectacular story led by protagonists that range from ineffectual to contemptible. The entirety of seasons 1 and 2 could be easily combined into the first act of a dull feature length film. Don't give away your valuable time like I did.
Could be worse. Could be John from Cincinnati.
Watched all 4ep. So bad. Some story line doesn’t need to exist
I HATE THIS FKN SHOW!! FIRE EVERYONE INVOLVED IN MAKING ME WANT TO SEE THE PLOT DEVELOP.
Its a bullshit love story like we gaf about matters of the heart with explosions everywhere and aliens. Each and every damn character has some bs heart strings going on. And just think they got a 2nd season out of apple tv smfh
no
As someone who found the first 2 seasons of Game of Thrones to be boring, but Seasons 3 through 7 was amazing, I'm more willing than most to give a series that I really want to like at least a full season's chance to hook me. And let me say, without spoilers, that I enjoyed season 1 and I'm looking forward to season 2.
I'm not a huge fan of the "ensemble" style storytelling in modern TV shows where we jump between multiple different people's perspectives, but if they are going to do so, they have to stick with those characters and don't introduce as many side characters in the future because my brain can only remember so many personalities. And that's what they did here, I'm happy to say.
you're on Season 1 Episode 3, Season 1, Episode 3, u need to take a step back, and reexamine exactly what is going on here, this is not a film, it is a show, i am sure u have watched a film before and hated it, and that film was probably from the 1980s, not to sound ageist, but dude we are in 2020s now, shows are expected to go on for multiple seasons, especially high budget shows, i believe the last episode of Season 1 is actually called "The First Day", it's also a show, not a film about an alien invasion, ofcourse they can't just have aliens blowing entire cities up in the first episode, i believe that the French War Of The Worlds Show takes its sweet time too in Season 1, it's nothing new dude, and the fact that u either don't know about this French Scifi Show, or have not seen it is honestly quite terrifying considering u are sitting here talking about a Scifi Show, and can't even compare it to another show, instead u are probably comparing it to Independence Day, or 2012, or some crap like that, dude those are FILMS, this is a SHOW, it makes me so irate when people talk about shows as if they are supposed to be films, yes, u have watched 3hrs of this show, how many hours have u watched of Game of Thrones again? Oh and i heard Game of Thrones last couple Seasons sucked too, but u guys prefer to watch 80hrs of Game of Thrones, yet can't give this 3hrs? much less 10hrs? it's ridiculous
3 Episodes and Terrible TV Show! I Agree 100% with you. Nothing to see here
I like it it’s a very good slow burn show it will definitely pick up
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Terrible screenwriting. Unlikable characters. That actress who play The mom who husband cheated on, have no line.. no dialogue.. can she speak? She’s in perpetual shock WTH !! Same with the Japanese girl . It’s like A 12 years old wrote this crap ! Awful awful show. Episode 5 was my last, I just can’t continue to watch this trash. After 5 hours NOTHING NADA RIEN ! I hate this show so much,
I’m currently on Episode 8 and I wish it focused more on the Japanese Plotline and the Trevante storyline , other than that I truly enjoyed this show so far and it’s not bad at all.
I just don't like the soldiers attitude, very American. Sorry!
Just started watching it to catch up for season 2 which was higher rated than this. I love it, it is excellent in my opinion. It is a slow burn but it really suits the show to me. It reminds me of the old series of The Stand. I feel it is a show that will be appreciated more as time goes on.
Naw season 1 is trash
I actually like the show. I like the concept of it and I'm interested to know the link between the aliens and the children.
This show is one of the most boringly slow burning shows ever made! the stories are very boring and unrealistic, it's very badly written I had to skip a lot of the parts, especially the one with the family and the kids!
Don't waste your time I'm on episode 7 and still nothing interesting happened....
Short answer: No it is not. Shitty storywriting, bad dialogues, boring story and absolutely no logic.
I'll watch the 2nd season as long as the little girl is edited out. So annoying.
its full of bs
I have really liked Invasion so far. Each their own
So... basically it's like 1st 3 episodes of Wandavision that made me nearly abandoned the show and upon repeat viewing I just skip to Episode 4.
It's a great series, an alien invasion done from the aspect of people on the ground who have no idea what is going on, there are plenty of other shoot em up alpha bro invasion series where aliens get splished and the us president saves the day by shooting nukes into space it's a disaster movie from a different perspective
Lot of complainers say "nothing has happened". This translates to "I want action, action, action", "because I am immature and are part of the dumbed down society we have today"
Worst sci-fi show ever. Nothing happens.
I couldn't disagree more. Most shows get to "the thing" way too quick, and completely gloss over the 'the fall' society and skip right to "ten years later."
Series has a modern Dune like feel to it. Better than LA Brea anyway.
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Can't disagree more with a lot of these comments. Invasion is incredible TV which has me completely hooked after 4 episodes. The cliff hanger endings to each episode are so good and the production values 6:13 are superb . It's worth remembering that JC has liked the most abysmal trash over the last few years (Shazam is complete shite but he thinks it's good). Anyway, it's just a thought.
It’s not a Marvel show…he doesn’t like it…hello captain obvious
That's not paying much attention to this channel
John reviews all sorts of films and his favourites of a given year are often outside of the comics films
Boring and way to woke!!!
@@chuckcobb2392 How am I suppose to know If i like it without watching it first? lol I loooove dumb comments like this! Keep it up!
@@chuckcobb2392 that was a fine comment till the end
You are losing at human relations if you are resorting to urging suicide
This is a boring show, it gave me headache. Uselessly long. It's just huge load of crap.
it's just boring🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱
The probem with this series is they have FIVE! storylines being told in an episode instead of focusing on one per episode. So it keeps jumping around back and forth between these individuals and it made it SUPER SLOOOOOOW BURN! i was interested specially the Bullied Kid in UK and the Family in US but it's frustrating that they chose to do this on a weekly series.
Bruh its better because these alien moves always focus on America only
Looks like they’re going one story line per episode now and I do like it a bit better like this
@@edyy2014 me too. If they only focused on one, it would be done in a few episodes. Plus they show that it's a worldwide threat.
Just like the Japanese ones always focus on Japan? I see no problem.@@dribblenomore9646
Nobody noticed how most of the men are depicted.. ? it has become a comon theme in modern movies and series...
i finally felt like puking when there was this scene were ahmed was trying to save his own ass and dump his family.. are you kidding me.. ??
how realistic is that ? how many of us knows a father/ husband dumping their own family to save his own .The Cheating part is understandable.. but no man can ever be that cowardly..
COPE
You haven't met many men ... Husbands or people in general. Maybe where you live your men wouldn't abandon their families. Or you could just be upset because the character shares the same name as you.😂
Unlike the other 2 commenters here, I agree with you. Even a cheating man who was about to leave his wife, which I find disgusting, would not just abandon his kids because it's shown to us that he does genuinely care about his kids & he's an active part of their lives. All modern shows/movies depict men as hapless & of lower moral standing than women. Throw in some "white" skin, & now you're sure to see a man who is just an absolute joke of a human being as he fails at every single thing he ever tries....unless it's a star vehicle for Thomas Cruise.
@@scottsherman5262A blonde hair blue eyed white boy is literally propped up like the savior in this show including rising from the dead and everything so miss me with the race baiting. And Trevonte is the main male lead who just drips with testosterone plus in season 2 that same wife finds another alpha male. Why don’t you let stories play out for once.
It's not a slow burn but more like a creeping death. All the characters in every story arc are frustratingly annoying. From the flip-flopping wannabe doc mom, to the "i gotta get home" soldier to the love stricken "my way or the highway" space technician. I thought the kids were the only saving grace but now that we are unto episode eight, I just want a space nuke to drop on them.
“And Something mysterious happens”
😂😂😂😂