Decent concept but, it's ruined with a lot of nagging and condescension with no real sense of leadership or authenticity. Feels like your parents yelling at you around every corner. Rushed scenarios that make no sense. You can tell Luke isn't even acting anymore, he's genuinely pissed and annoyed.
The kids are good characters but too young to actually do anything. It might have been better without any of the parents at all because they were just really dumb, I sometimes got the sense they could handle themselves better than them. It would be cooler if the kids were stronger and more brave or maybe just left the family out all together and gave the artifact to someone better.
The only real good character is the soldier "operator." But wouldn't be suprised if he's killed.
Soccer dad takes out an entire unit of armed soldiers, and a very unconvincing actor it looks every scene he's in are cut out scenes, it's just obvious set acting. Same with 3 people with semi autos take out another unit with better fire power in S1. So fake.
The feminist themes are also really lame; inserting cliches and phrases like "activist" and "progressive" while blatantly referencing poor political candidates followed by more nagging and hindering any progress. It should have nothing to do with the show, it's distasteful and disingenuous in many newer shows now.
There's nothing wrong with having decent and strong characters; They're predicatbly killed off because they make them weak and replaced with even weaker people. That type of selfish and pretentious writing or casting should be in a different genre. No wonder the aliens invaded earth, even they were annoyed.
The aliens are unrealistically unprepared with ships the size of cities being shot down in 1 hit by humans. Have to be the dumbest aliens I've seen.
Keep movies and tv enjoyable.