make_me_think Review of Invasion

Invasion (2021–2024)

Almost a ripoff of Live, Die, Repeat - Edge of Tomorrow

[4/10 · 27 August 2023]

I write this less than 10 minutes into the S2EP1 show. Granted there are more stories in the overall, but at the end of the day it's slow and not all that interesting. The creatures are ripoffs of the mimics. There was a mention of hive mind last season, another ripoff of Live, Die, Repeat - Edge of Tomorrow. I won't be surprised at all if there ends up being a critical time/temporal aspect to this series. The only high points so far have been the way Annesha handled her now dead husband and the regrettably short relationship between Mitsuki and Hinata. And what a sucker punch to kill Sam Neill so quick. I'll try watching the rest of the S2 opener but not hopeful.