I tried. Sort of. After watching the first couple of episodes I did the rest of the series in fast forward mode, stopping every now and then when it seemed like something might actually be happening. Which wasn’t often.
I say it should be titled Evasion because never have I seen 10 episodes that tried so hard to hide what it was about.
I finally got to Episode 10 and watched the entire thing and really, WTF? What a non-ending. Perhaps one might consider it a cliffhanger, but hanging over what? A vast nothingness of plot? Characters who I didn’t really care about? The latter is the real problem because it was the backbone of the concept. How these people react to an uncertain event that is an alien invasion. They were billed as ordinary but apparently one or two weren’t. So they wanted their ordinary characters and have them be extraordinary too. Greedy writers. I know them well as I’ve tried too much at times also.
I have serious doubts whether it will be picked up for a second season. As in publishing, it all depends on the numbers. Hey, I saw Stephen King tweet that he liked it. So, who knows.
What perplexes me is what someone saw in this to greenlight it? I think there was a neat idea, but so much of the ten episodes is these characters sitting and chatting with each other about their personal…
