what's going on to all my apple tv plus fans out there and welcome back to my channel movie files
elliott back again with a brand new tv review and today we'll be breaking down the first three
episodes of the brand new apple tv plus original sci-fi drama by the name of invasion which will be
dropping its first three episodes on the platform this friday now i got the opportunity to check it
out early and i'm really excited to let you all know what i thought about this series in
particular the first three episodes do i recommend you all check it out and will i be back to watch
and review this on the week-to-week basis we're breaking it all down here in this spoiler-free
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for it but more importantly once you've seen the first three episodes what'd you think about it
let's talk about your pros your cons your thoughts on the three or multiple different perspectives
of this similar situation going around the globe which ones you find more appealing which character
are you more invested in what are some things that don't work for you are you excited for this
series did you find it a little bit boring let's talk about it all in the comments below so going
into this new series on apple tv plus invasion i was pretty excited because if you all do not know
i championed the hell out of apple tv plus whether it be c servant ted lasso this new sci-fi that
i've been watching and reviewing on week-to-week basis by the name of foundation i am an apple
tv plus fan and i think that they of course they don't have the same quantity of a netflix or hulu
an amazon uh you know an hbo max but they have the quality ladies and gentlemen so i'm always looking
forward to some new content so i was really excited for that i really enjoyed the talent
in front of the camera but i will admit there was one thing that made me a little bit nervous about
going to the series and it's the show runner is to create this show it is simon kinberg who
listen i'm going to say it right now he has some incredible projects under his name he's a writer
he's a producer he's a director which he is and all that great stuff but we'll talk about that
a little bit later but he he does it all ladies and gentlemen he has like seriously look up his
filmography he has been a part of some incredible sci-fi movies sci-fi shows superhero movies he's
a great talented individual creative mind but also he has some pretty big stinkers i mean
as i mentioned some sci-fi stuff i don't like by him the x-men stuff that he's been a part of the
highs and lows he's a very interesting creative person but i'm not gonna lie i was a little bit on
the fence about simon kimberg directing or being a part of this project so with all that being said
what i think about the first three episodes we're gonna dive into it here i just wanna let
you all know this is a spoiler free review i'm gonna briefly talk about the plot a little bit
in the first three episodes but more importantly i'm gonna focus on what worked what didn't work
and do i recommend you all check it out so with that being said let's get into this review
starting off with episode one and i'm not gonna lie ladies and gentlemen episode 1 was a little
bit uninteresting i was a little bit bored by it uh because essentially the first episode which i
always applaud a show not necessarily this isn't called invasion so you would expect there's aliens
there's explosion there's this world hopping situation going on we're going to be fighting
aliens that's not really the focus on the show so far in particular in this first episode we're
really meeting the main characters and seeing this kind of what is going on in their lives and what
i like about that idea execution wasn't all that great but what i like about the idea is we need to
know who we're rooting for we need to know these characters what is going on in their lives as we
meet the three main characters starting off with one of my favorite actors sam neal who
jurassic park park's my favorite film of all time and i'm a big sam neil fan as it is but we if
we introduce him he's playing the shirt for this small town he goes by the name of john bill tyson
and he is retiring and he really doesn't feel like he's done the best that he could in his
position he he almost feels like his life has been purposeless he wants to have a purpose in his life
so we're seeing sam neil there's obviously again this invasion we don't see no spoilers but we
don't really see like aliens in the first episode but there is a sense that there's something going
on around the world especially in his small town so we get a little bit of insight on what's going
on with him he wants to try to figure out what's going on what happened to a particular group of
people in my town and how can i solve this crime so he had a little bit of an interesting story out
of the three main characters his story was the most interesting which brings me to our second
character anisha played by oh shifter farahani now anisha is a mother and a wife and you just see in
the basic domestic life she has some uh marital issues i'll just leave it at that and she has a
it's the only thing i really found interesting about anisha story in that first episode is
there's something she has two kids and what happens with this invasion there's something
that happens with a bunch of kids in school and she has one of her kids their nose are bleeding
they're freaking out but one of her kids doesn't have a nosebleed which is really important for the
second episode but i thought that her situation her marital issues was was okay but i wasn't all
that invested because i don't really know who these characters are quite yet but she has some
interesting things going on but that brings me to the third main character of this episode diary
sunnah as masuki masuki works for the jasa which is essentially cnsa which is like the nasa program
in china and she is someone that's very smart very intelligent she is a part of getting this group of
astronauts into space and she has a particular relationship with one of the astronauts and
and it's a really interesting relationship it's a it's a quiet hush-hush relationship and it adds a
kind of again a drama element to that particular character so as characters go like i said sam neil
was the most interesting i like what anisha's like her sun element had to do with connecting to the
invasion and again uh the all the stuff with the spacecraft but again a lot of that stuff was just
a little bit i just wasn't connecting to the story i thought that the pacing wasn't all the way there
but as a great premiere as a first episode does they have the hook right so in the last 10 minutes
or so the story kind of picks up a little bit where we see the invasion and how it affects
all these three different characters that we meet and and the thing that i found to be interesting
is these are three different stories three different characters diverse characters we're
going to tokyo we're going to different parts of the us and that's what i kind of liked about okay
we're not just focusing on one character we're focusing on different characters
having their personal lives and how this is going to affect their lives with this invasion so that
was kind of like okay i didn't like 40 or like the first 45 minutes of the of this you know 55 minute
episode but the 10 minutes was like okay there's enough there for make to make me intrigued to see
what episode two has to offer so that brings me to episode two which essentially we're doing the same
song and dance in the second episode but we're introduced to a couple different uh new characters
to the bunch one there is a first off we have the aftermath of what happens to a spacecraft
which makes things which affects one of our main characters in the first episode but we also meet
two new characters one is a young boy who's in london he has a medical issue he's being picked on
in school and his his uh school is going on this trip which causes a bit of an issue because again
there's an alien invasion and you can only imagine what happens with kids on a bus and there's the
end of the world coming up so we meet him we also meet a soldier who is in iraq again we're going
around the globe and i love that element about the show so far we meet this character by the name of
bonte ward and he seems to be someone that is a leader he's a fighter but he's always on the go so
he seems to have a rift with his family so again they're building stakes they're building a motion
he's someone that isn't to personally connect to his family so you're going to imagine that he's
want to go want to go home to save his family you know a lot independence day of a certain extent
right so going back to my thoughts on episode two i have to say i prefer this episode more than the
first because things kind of pick up a little bit sooner pick up a little bit more quicker
in the episode except for 45 minutes to wait til something happens it takes about 25 minutes for
something to happen which again the big kind of event in this episode is kids on the bus alien
invasion can only imagine the detention the drama and you want the kids to be safe we have a soldier
that goes on a mission his men are missing and he gets kind of connected to the alien situation
and again going back to our two main characters from episode one anish and her family and in the
astronaut situation we kind of see more of the drama with anish and her family as well as the
astronaut how that affected our main character in that narrative there so i definitely have to say
it it it's better in the narrative the pacing was stronger i do prefer the second episode over the
first and i actually prefer the second episode over the third and i thought natively speaking
it was the strongest out of the three and again it does something at the end of episode two
which makes you want to come back to wrap up the third episode which i'm not gonna lie ladies and
gentlemen i don't really have that many notes for episode three because i'm gonna say it right now
episode three is what i feared about this show and that is simon king bird and him just not having
a grip on who's the target audience at this point of episode three again i don't have a lot of notes
here it wasn't a lot going on we have the same stick with the family and them just going on the
road and trying to figure what's going on with the world and they pull a very dickish move and i like
i kind of care for the mom anisha and her kids but then they do and the kids had anything to
do with the decisions that she makes but when you see the third episode they do something where i'm
like that was a very like i said a dickish move so i'm like i don't really care for alicia anymore
we have the jsa character who is kind of doing the same thing she's been doing the first two episodes
and sam neil where is sam neil he's not in episode two he's done episode three and then it's just
like it feels pointless it feels like this this show has and it shows in this third episode it's
a lack of development there's a lack of interest and i just don't know again who is a target
audience we have a kids narrative where it's like these kids are like surviving on the edge of this
cliff and they're fighting each other and who's going to survive who's the leader of the group
there's a bully that's just like kind of like a stereotypical bully we have a niche's family
which is just what's the situation who really cares about this domestic situation this marriage
they have at hand uh we have the astronaut which she's trying to discover what happened
to the astronauts in space or i should say the the woman that works uh on the on the home base she's
trying to figure out what's going on there but it's really boring i hate to be so generic and
describe it that way but it's a really boring show especially in that third episode again episode
two i'm like this is interesting we're seeing an alien invasion which by the way there's literally
not the spoiling thing we don't see the aliens but you see the inklings of an invasion taking
place again we see in episode one at sam neal's uh hometown where there's a bunch of birds going on
we see in the nisha's house there's like a electrical outage that goes on and we see in space
there's something that happens there and there's elements of like okay shit's gonna hit the fan but
there's no aliens in the first three episodes we see ships we see like these little figures but
you don't really see what they look like so that's not the focus on the show which i'm okay with that
the show is not necessarily focused on aliens and action and all the science fiction that i
love but i'm okay with focusing on character and character development but the show doesn't have
that it doesn't have any development the stories that they're giving us isn't that compelling and i
just do not care which brings me to my last point i don't think i'm gonna be watching this
show after that third episode man there's not enough meat on the bone to keep me intrigued
again each episode had like the final five minutes ten minutes like oh that's interesting
but what about the other 40 45 50 minutes that i just kind of dragged along to get to this point
there's not enough there for me personally i i'm probably gonna watch the fourth episode just to
see if things kind of turn on his head if the action picks up the sci-fi picks up but based on
these three episodes there's not a lot of left uh enough meat there for me to kind of look forward
to watching this and reviewing this for you all but that's just my thoughts on the first three
episodes let me know yours in the comments i don't think it's worth your time but i would love to
know if you think it is something that you would be invested in in the comments below let me know
your thoughts on the first second third episode your pros your cons your thoughts on the writing
the performances which by the way i thought the performances were fine but no one really stood out
to me and i thought that the writing was just very surface level and very you know bland if i'm being
honest but again we talked about that in review but let me know your thoughts in the comments
if you stuck around to this point in the video i appreciate every single one of you all i i do wish
that this was a show that i was really invested in but it's just not kidding it for me but hey that's
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