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I had to fast forward through several parts to get through it. Way too much drama stretched out in each of the character groups. You start to lose sympathy for some of the characters.

Also, the character Mitsuki Yamato is the most annoying of all. She acts like she's the only lesbian to exist on the planet. Always angry and very immature throwing tantrums through out the whole time. Even after 1 year into the event, she's acting like a spoiled brat. Grow up and put your big girl panties on!! Someone like that supposed to have an administrative position in JASA? Pleassseee, so un-realistic. SMH.

Why would the writers make a script that portrays the Aneesha family in such an utterly annoying manner. All I want is for them to be killed off, as the more I watch the more retarded their story line is. Such a shame as the show has potential but it's almost like the writers want you to stop watching by making this family so unbearable to watch.... Can the writers at apple pls put two brain cells together and improve these characters, or for the love of god just annihilate them already!

If it wasn't for the kids in England the second season would have got one star from me and if it wasn't for the Aneesha family this show would have got 8 stars.

If a third season is in the pipeline (unlikely after season two) just focus on the kids in England and kill everyone else off. Oh yeah and it's a show about an alien invasion, a few more alien scenes might be a good idea, just saying...

The first season was pretty good. It kept me watching. It had strong performances from all the actors. But the 2nd season became very boring and poorly put together. Maybe a change of directors? The actor's performances even changed. It went from an A-list caliber show to C-list. I loved the first season enough to give all 8 episodes of this season a chance. I figured maybe it would pick up but it did not. The new characters added are also bland- no disrespect to them because I blame whoever's behind the camera. Even the characters who gave strong performances last season were bland this season.

I really want to like it but it better pick up pace. They're spending so much time on characters we don't care about or aren't invested in yet. Slow pointless camera pannings, and needless side stories. They need to get us gripped. I wait a week for an hour long episode and virtually nothing happens, week on week. I'm loosing interest and the will to live though another slow or non progressive episode. As a side note if that's the way American soldiers treat foreign nationals in their own country, it's no wonder terrorism exists. It's painful to watch.

Just starting watching Invasion with my brother and have to say that I really enjoyed it so far. It does start a little slow while it builds its world and characters up but I don't mind that. It does a good job of making you actually care about what happens to these characters. I don't understand why there are so many mixed reviews. If you like this kind of sci-fi genre then there's no reason not to like this. The acting and writing are both great as are the visuals. I'm glad that it did well enough to warrant another season because there's definitely still more story to tell. It's been nearly two years since the end of season one but the new season is finally coming out this summer.

Annoying and completely stupid acting actors. Rarely seen a more unlikeable main character than Aneesha. The series is absolutely average, although the first season is significantly better than the second one. In the second season, the actors rarely acted logically in my opinion. The series can easily be watched on the side, it doesn't require uninterrupted attention. Unfortunately, the spark doesn't really jump over in terms of the characters, cast and above all sympathetic characters would probably have helped. Average entertainment, I stuck with it, but would have expected and hoped for much more.

Invasion is actually a pretty decent show. There are so many alien invasion shows and movies to choose from these days but I'd definitely recommend putting this on your list to watch. Some sci-fi fans may be a little disappointed because it doesn't have a bunch of action, it takes it time to build the story. It's about a group of aliens that come to Earth and threatens the very existence of humanity. The show follows five ordinary people from all over the world in real time as they do their best to survive this invasion. If you don't like slow burn tv shows then you probably won't like this either but I still think you should at least give it a chance. You might just like it.

I really loved the first season and so looked forward to the second one. But what a waste. The kid who hates his mother and has one deeply annoying emotional register for the entire series - I cringe when he's on the screen, as well as his cliched ever-suffering mom - just no! Enough. The Mitsuki character is the only one with whom I'm now engaged, other than the actor Shamier Anderson's soldier. Anderson acted his socks off in the first season. But he had a role. But where is he now? And don't get me going on the stereotype hipper than hip tech boss, who knows what's best for everyone - omg, what were they thinking? It's as if they took all the weak aspects of the first season and focused on those at the expense of everything that was truly riveting in the first season - its visual beauty and the mystery of love and friendship in a time of horror and the unknown. What a shame. I'll keep watching it until the end, but my expectations are completely blown.

The first Apple TV produced series I ever watched was "Hijack" and I liked it. So, when I saw the trailers for "Invasion" I was all in. I love sci-fi of almost any kind. If you can mix sci-fi with an apocalypse scenario I will always give it a gander.

Well, I think the producers of this show used an alien invasion as a trojan horse to sneak in their real project: an emotional melodrama about relationships. They only teased an alien invasion for four and a half episodes while giving us a heavy dose of a distressed lesbian in Japan, an epileptic kid getting bullied in England, a badass, kill 'em dead American soldier in Afghanistan, and a woman dealing with her cheating husband in the U. S. It was slow, it was painful, it was awkward, and it was cringe.

Then they showed an alien. And the juice was hardly worth the squeeze.

By episode 7 I was done. I couldn't take it anymore. I had continued to watch in the hopes I'd see a suspenseful sci-fi with a splash of drama, instead I got a flaccid drama with a splash of suspenseful sci-fi.

"Invasion" committed two cardinal sins.

1.) They weren't what they said they were. I hate being tricked.

2.) The characters weren't interesting. I didn't like nor care about a single character, which makes a show extremely hard to watch. If you're not going to have interesting or likable characters you better have a lot going on to distract the viewer from that fact. "Invasion" had nothing going on.

I liked the first season. It was slow starting, but I eventually got into it. The issue I'm having is that I HATE Luke. He drives me nuts! His mom, Aneesha, isn't much better. Mitsuki's character is somewhat interesting, but her plot points are SLOW. The best part of the show is the kids in the UK, but they don't appear often enough. So, I honestly don't know if I'll be able to keep going. It is so sad because I wanted to like season 2. I agree with all the people who are saying that the bulk of this show is too drama focused and not focused enough on the threat posed by the aliens. It just doesn't feel all that realistic. Throw in the interactions between the new knockoff UN and Nikhil Kapoor and it is just a bit silly.

I guess the main lesson from this film is that when the aliens invade, just give up and let them kill you, it'll be better that suffering though this drivel.

It seems like maybe the director is trying to convey the confusion and lack of communication that this type of scenario would entail by dragging the audience through a similar experience. I'm 8 episodes in and I feel like it's taken a week to learn what could've been conveyed in an hour. I'll probably suffer through the rest because I'm a masochist when it comes to sci-dram-fi. This reminds me a bit of Solaris in that regard, so many hours I wish I had something better to do.

I'll admit, I'm only three episodes in at writing this and I shall revisit once I've hit my limit, or should I actually end up liking it (Strong doubt).

I am all for slow burn and methodical set ups but so far this is nothing but a long hard slog. There are just too many character back stories to build up with which is by no means confusing but I just now have four story arcs spanning three episodes and zero care for any of them. It may not be so bad had the acting not been mediocre at best, or if everyone didn't already seem so bloody depressed.

So far; it's poorly written with garbage dialogue, the pacing is all over the plane and there's no likeable characters, all of that's had me reaching for my phone to fill a good chunk of the 58 min running time.

If you're looking for an Independence day action movie, then move on. Quite surprised by all the negative reviews for this, I'm really enjoying it so far. I love that it is concentrating more on the human reaction than the actual aliens and the frontline invasion. Some might find it boring due to the lack of action, but for me it is a refreshing take on an old theme. If you want to see aliens being carved up by lasers then this won't be your cup of tea. But the very real reactions. And chaos that would most probably ensue after the event is very well played out. I did find some of the characters choices questionable throughout. But who knows how you'd react in such a situation.

UPDATE: It is a slow burn for sure, and the first 5 episodes will probably make you want to quit watching, but episode 6! Wow! If you keep watching, you probably won't stop after this episode.

It's like War of The Worlds and A Quiet Place together in one episode.

If only this episode happened earlier in the season! But I guess the creators really wanted to take their time and set the entire thing slowly. Very slowly!

When you finally see the aliens! OMG!

Your patience will be rewarded.

Mysteriously my first review disappeared... So I write one again: Invasion is a rather disappointing affair - the story is one on auto-pilot, the characters are mainly introduced to get every imaginable cliche of zeitgeist into action, respectively on the screen. The story unfolds very slowly, I repeat, very slowly. So what we mainly get is a melodrama with some alien invasion - sometime.

Its a slow but a realy interesting sci fi movie. After the 6.th epizode im realy waiting the next one. But if you are looking a sci fi like battle los angeles or edge of tomorrow (anyway they was also great, but different) its not this. Here the people with the negative review are waiting an action movie, becouse thay think every sci fi has to be a action movie as you will see when you read them. But not every sci fi is action movie. At least the best ones are not. There is solaris, there is space odissey ect... give a shot. Its a good one. Even if actionmans are dont understand.

An alien movie that doesn't want to be one... absolutely no need for this type of character development after the first 2 episodes. It doesn't even pull off the beautiful drama that it's trying to be either. It's just boring with a lame script & only a couple good actors..

Her character and her kids take up so much screen time and she's just a character you absolutely loathe. I find my rating of a 4 to be based on the fact that you're supposed to like the protagonist in some form or another and I find myself just hoping that her character dies. I understand that we as the audience are supposed to understand her motivations of protecting her family but the writing fails at this. When you compare her to similar characters in similar shows; think Rick in the Walking Dead or Jack in Lost she just fails in getting me on her side. My low rating is based on her horrible character. There are other flaws in the show but after a season and a half, I can say the main target of my ire is her character.

The one redeeming element and the only one that keeps my coming back to this show are the kids in England and their adventure. It reminds me of similar kids adventure shows from my childhood such as The Goonies. Season 2 plays on it as they journey to Paris and it works.

Slow? THAT's the main criticism, SLOW?

These are OBviously reviews from kids...and, just as obviously, this show wasn't made for you sugared up, hyperactive, 30 second, immediate gratification types... the writing is VERY good, as are the actors that pull it off so well that it's easy to get lost in whatever they are doing/portraying... i wondered if there would be a second season, so i thought i'd come here and see how it was received, thinking it would get a pretty high rating... but the rating turns out to be much more about the reviewers than the program itself...still, i imagine the network is doing the same thing i am so i hope it doesn't end(i'm on the penultimate episode) with too much unresolved...though i think that WILL be the case...what a shame...this is the second show that i thought was good that will not see a second season... the other is 'y: the last man'.

Great trick, slapping a sci-fi label on a cluttered hodgepodge of mundane life stories and hope the viewers won't recognize the deception too quickly.

Seriously, what is this? Every episode is 95% anemic exposition, and only each last scene finally reveals a science fiction-y cliffhanger. Every single time. In-between those brief moments, there's a metric ton of banal daytime drama, that introduces a framework of tedious characters, plus lots of annoying children. There's basically every overused trope from the past 20-30 years in here, and none of them is told with any originality: there's marital infidelity, fear of becoming old, schoolyard bullying, parental homophobia, offhand racism, everything *except* the invasion that gives the series its title.

Of course protagonists should be given a background, but not if that's all we get. And why do they all need to be so incurably uninteresting and stereotypical anyway? With this kind of budget, Apple could have given a serious shot to writers who truly understand science fiction, instead of these wannabe novelists. What a waste.

I was excited when I saw the trailer for this new Apple series. After the first couple episodes, I kept telling myself it is going to get better. There is something here, I feel it. Yet, this feeling I had about the series never materialized on screen. Instead, what we get are a series of interwoven life stories that are, if I am being honest, at times not that interesting. The science fiction element seems to get lost at times, which is where my disappointment stems from. A pity, as there is clearly potential here. Overall, it's not too bad, but sci-fi fans, no doubt, will be disappointed.

Characters are poorly written and boring. There's so much unnecessary drama and most scenes are fillers. Aliens are just as lame as the characters in this series. Entertainment level zero.

If you loved rings of power, you will love this one too. It will leave you empty and annoyed. Avoid like the plague.

I would ask you to stop making series like this one, but you won't. So, what's the solution? Leave a bad review, rate it 1 star, hope people will read this and will avoid it.

And to all the bad writers out there who made this possible... you made a terrible mistake when you chose to work as a screenwriter.