The award for most unintentionally hilarious subplot of the week has to go to the Malik family, and the weird love triangle the show keeps trying to push between Ahmed, Aneesha, and the cute if drippy Dr. Hwo is it possible that we are eight episodes into this show and I possibly have less idea about what’s going on than I did before? Invasion– Photo Courtesy of Apple TV+
Just…where have all the people gone so quickly? Shouldn’t there be more bodies covered in the weird black good?
I do have to side-eye, however, the bizarre way that Invasion is, well, depicting the alien invasion because, like many other aspects of its narrative, it can’t seem to pick a lane about what’s happening.įor every bleak panorama we see of a smoldering wreck of a major industrial skyline - the shot of London behind the iconic red phone booth Trevante is in is strikingly beautiful in its destruction - there’s also another shot of an eerily desolate wasteland. (He is really having the worst day.) Invasion– Photo Courtesy of Apple TV+ On the flip side, I’m glad that Casper has stumbled into some sort of adult supervision, especially after discovering the alien goo-encrusted dead body of his mother. This episode has some more vague hints that something very bad happened in their marriage before he went on Afghanistan, but I’m not sure it’s possible for me to care much less about what it is. Related Dickinson Review: A little Madness in the Spring (Season 3 Episode 6) (Like…does he think he’s the only soldier in England with a wife he loves that they’ve promised to get back to?) No matter what hijinks they get into together, it has to be more interesting than watching Trevante’s struggle to try to find a way back to America. That it chooses two of the worst characters - autistic, alien vision having teen Casper and pointless American soldier Trevante - to pair up is…well, it’s unfortunate, but perhaps they’ll be less dull together?
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On the plus side, “Contact” is the first episode of Invasion that actually manages to bring two of its wildly disparate plot threads together. Will next week reveal that Hinata has been taken over by one of the alien creatures? We can only hope. This show has made me a monster, is what I’m saying. Of course, the idea that she manages to somehow “reach” the aliens by sending a metric ton of selfie videos of her presumed-dead girlfriend, like, describing flowers and the beauty of sunshine is so nauseatingly saccharine that I kind of hope it just makes them angry enough to destroy another city. It’s kind of a big leap to assume that the aliens are interested in communicating with us at all, given the destruction they’ve already caused across the planet, but, at this point, why not? While Mitsuki does manage to figure out a way to use the wreckage of the Hoshi-12 to open something like a communication channel with the nebulously identified alien threat. Though the title of InvasionSeason 1 Episode 8, “Contact,” implies that something major is going to happen in this installment, that’s yet another in a long line of disappointments when it comes to this show.