One focuses on Mitsuki Yamato (Shioli Kutsuna), a Japanese aerospace technician having an affair with an astronaut about to leave Earth for the International Space Station. That plot pauses with a cliffhanger at the end of episode one, with Neill not reappearing in the following two episodes, and the show is stronger for it.Īlso too ponderous is the show’s pair of big relationship dramas.
It feels like the writers are striving for the mood of No Country for Old Men, with an aging lawman confronting evil he’s largely powerless to fight, but juxtaposing an extraterrestrial mystery atop scenes of white supremacist meth dealers and Neill’s mournful monologues about faith feels terribly forced.
The first episode, “Love of My Life” is the roughest part of the premiere, focused mostly on Jim Bell Tyson (Sam Neill), a small-town sheriff on the cusp of retiring looking to solve one last case to bring meaning to his life and career. Yet in an effort to avoid recreating the typical alien attack plots, Kinberg and co-creator David Weil wind up just producing a mashup of prestige drama cliches. Invasion takes its time in introducing its large cast of characters scattered across the world experiencing the alien assault in very different ways.
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