INVASION
Should have booked an Uber.
★★★
OUT NOW (APPLE TV+) EPISODES VIEWED 5 OF 10
SHOWRUNNERS Simon Kinberg, David Weil
CAST Sam Neill, Golshifteh Farahani, Shamier Anderson, Shiori Kutsuna, Billy Barratt
PLOT Across the globe, a series of unexplained events leave human tragedy in their wake.
Through the eyes of a disparate group of people across three separate continents, the emerging threat unfolds as a backdrop to everyday human drama.
BUSINESS HAS BEEN booming over at the H.G. Wells estate for the past few years.
We’ve had Rafe Spall and Eleanor Tomlinson chasing tripods around Edwardian London in BBC One’s The War Of The Worlds, and a Fox/ Canal+ co-pro that offered a rather more sinister, somewhat bonkers and très Français adaptation that had us all being slaughtered by robot dogs. Now Apple TV+ has entered the chat, bringing us a show inspired by rather than adapted from Wells’ original, but one that’s arguably the most faithful in capturing the sense of confusion, panic and well-earned paranoia that defines both the novel and Orson Welles’ infamous radio drama.