Peter Longthorn

This title should be taken off the market for XBOX. It is quite simply, unplayable. If you were to purchase a hard copy of this you would simply return it for a refund, like anything else that is not fit for purpose. I can’t speak for PC users, but shame on you Microsoft for taking money from XBox users for this piece of garbage. It is undeveloped and should never have been released in this state. There must be so much dissatisfaction out there as it promised so much but has delivered nothing but frustration. The problems are too numerous to list, but I urge anyone thinking about buying this rushed out piece of nonsense to save their money and perhaps more importantly, their time…DON’T DO IT!! It is not worth investing either of those things.

This is entertaining, but that is a bit like saying ‘this car is good ‘cos it gets you where you need to be’. Apple TV+ is a paid subscription service so should deliver entertainment. Their shows always look spectacular, which is important to me, but equally the writing and acting is often very shallow. All the usual stereotypes are here in Invasion; men are generally one dimensional, disproportionately violent, dishonest and volatile whilst the female characters have depth, are measured, in control etc, etc.. which although we’ve come to expect this, for that reason it is also tiresome. Once you’ve jumped that inevitable hurdle, it does draw you in as there is more to this than just ‘we’re under attack, let’s nuke ‘em!’. However, maybe that would be better in this case, because the deep drama stuff is actually pretty badly written and acted. In short, I watched a low budget, uk made kitchen sink drama from the ‘90s for about the tenth time the other day and enjoyed it a million more times than this…simply because it’s brilliantly written and brilliantly acted, often ad lib. Not a ‘ticked box’ in sight, no messages to drive home. Invasion isn’t that. Its had a lot of money thrown at it sure..but you can’t substitute proper talent, of which their is very little here.

As you would expect from Apple this show looks beautiful. It’s clearly high budget and if you have a decent TV and sound set up, strap yourself in (pardon the flying pun) for a treat. Plot wise, probably full of holes, but who cares, most stuff is. My biggest issue is the cookie cutter characterisation. Again as you’d expect from Apple, buts let’s be honest, as you’d expect from EVERY player on TV and film now, all the idiots are white males and all the smart guys are female. A bit of balance would be nice. We get it, certain issues need to be addressed, but no need to turn it up to 11 all the time! Have some respect for viewer intelligence please. But, I’ll see it through, paid my subscription now!