A good part of the Apple TV+ catalog is devoted to science fiction. From a dystopia in which the popular Silage surprised this year until the adaptation came out Foundationfrom Isaac Asimov. The platform has spent the last few years reinventing the genre. Something that is also being tried in the second season Invasiona story about an alien attack, told from personal experience.
This is not the original argument. signs (2002), from M. Night Shyamalanand to a lesser extent Arrival (2016), author Denis VilleneuveThey touch on the same topic. Both talk about what happened during the first contact with other worlds, through the fears and pain of their main characters. However, in Invasion The scale of the attack is not very clear. During its first installment, the series waited two chapters to show creatures from outer space for the first time. Because of this, the production was accused of being a slow and tedious process.
Screenwriters Simon Kinberg, David Weil and Andrew Baldwin, who worked on the second part, seem to have heeded the criticism. The plot develops much faster and begins without any introduction. It opens with a story about what happened a few months after the last closing scene of the previous season, which showed the sudden return of creatures that tried to destroy our planet. After a brief truce, an attack seemed imminent. And in fact it was. Continuation Invasion shows the wreckage of an all-out attack that tore the world to pieces.
Invasion
The Apple TV+ series delves into the sci-fi theme of an alien invasion that no one can stop. However, instead of showing great battles with high-tech weapons, he focuses on his characters. Ordinary people found themselves in a situation of unknown scale and scope. The first season featured the arrival of the creatures. Now the series is delving into its aftermath. With more ambition, more action scenes, and a faster pace, the production leaves behind an introspective and contemplative atmosphere. However, he still makes some mistakes.
Small innovations that make a difference
It’s not easy to talk about such a recurring theme in science fiction. Invasion he knows this and therefore devotes all his efforts to innovation. First, it claims that the previous ten episodes (released in 2021) were actually prologue. A risky decision, but it could explain the slow pace of production that was so heavily criticized. This time, the plot follows one another as a story about situations connected by one idea: death is inevitable.
Aliens – nameless and in the form of arachnids – control most of the world. The cities are uninhabitable and there are only a few safe areas where groups of refugees survive.
scenario Invasion It doesn’t summarize or show anything that happened before. Because of this, there is a feeling that what was told did not matter much. However, in a clever move, he discovers some of the first details about the invading creatures, which are part of what was said earlier. A twist whereby the series becomes a kind of cycle that ends on its own.
Story Invasion improvement
Gradually heads Invasion They complete the stories picked up in the first season, which take on concrete meaning in the second. Mitsuki (Syoli Kutsuna), who has become part of the resistance, discovers that there is a mission that only she can complete. Anisha (Golshifteh Farahani), who showed her paranoia and willingness to attack in the previous season’s finale, runs away with her children. After all, it seemed like all his precautions were necessary.
In the second part Invasion, the characters are dots that need to be connected to create resistance that comes from their personal experience. Finally, what was reported earlier confirms the decisions that will be made in the next ten chapters. While not the most imaginative plot, it shows a clear evolution of the series.
As well as its visual section
Another persistent argument against the previous season was the poor visuals. Invasion It improves in this aspect and shows fewer scenes created to save resources. This time there are dozens of collisions with creatures that look like wriggling drops on tentacle legs. Some of them are handcrafted and enhance combat scenes, others are just shadows in the dark.
Despite its problems, the series is a great option for fans of the invasion and dystopian survival genre. Invasion he strives to ensure that, despite the increase in the situations and scenarios shown, his characters remain at the center of the plot.
But the resource is not entirely skillful and ends up reducing the argument to three very specific points. Scenes and appearances of aliens, escape to protected areas and introspective monologues about survival. The combination of everything becomes predictable, but the series manages to make the change in plot create interest for the next one.
Invasion it requires patience, which not every subscriber has in this story. But the improvement of the script and the visual part makes this experience worthwhile. Exploring the human factor among ships, attacks and tense situations is not always easy. However, the series manages to stand out with its simplicity, which is undoubtedly its most successful element.
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