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Positive:
8
Mixed:
11
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews
Aug 24, 2023
Season 2 Review:
Packing more pathos into its complex run than most shows can muster, there is a real sense of revelation that comes through with Invasion season 2. It might not match contemporaries such as Silo and Foundation in terms of consistency, but more than makes up for that disappointing first run.
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RogerEbert.comOct 22, 2021
ColliderAug 16, 2023
Season 2 Review:
The series finally isn't just spinning its wheels and is starting to get somewhere. Where that is remains to be seen, as there are many threads left dangling just as the world hangs on by one, but Season 2 now stokes a more earned curiosity about how they will unravel in the still-expanding story ahead.
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Aug 22, 2025
Season 3 Review:
Invasion is as much about human relationships that evolve in the face of an extinction event as much as it is about thwarting the invasion, and reestablishing these relationships, and introducing us to some new ones, will go a long way in not making this season feel like a rehash.
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Oct 22, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It’s good enough to stay with, that’s for sure. It does feel like, though, that the aliens are going to be beside the point in this show, kind of like the zombies became after the first season of The Walking Dead. And we’re not sure we want to see yet another series where other people are way worse than the unknown enemy that’s invading our world.
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Radio TimesDec 3, 2021
The TelegraphOct 22, 2021
Season 1 Review:
There is, you’ll have gathered, a lot of story here. It should also be pointed out that a lot of it is very good. ... The problem is that bigness again. In a bid to tell a sweeping story for all mankind (to borrow another strong Apple TV+ title), Invasion takes hours, literally, to get to the invasion.
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The GuardianOct 22, 2021
Season 1 Review:
You can feel the creators Simon Kinberg and David Weil eager to draw parallels and find resonance with current issues: the fracturing family also in effect become refugees as they attempt to flee to safety; Trevante is a hostile invader about to feel what life is like on the other side of the equation, and so on. Even so, Invasion is a slow burn that threatens to become simply slow.
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IndieWireOct 22, 2021
Aug 22, 2023
Season 2 Review:
There is so much putting the cart before the horse, and when you rack your brain as to why this keeps happening, the only thing that makes sense is that someone or multiple someones in charge just don’t think, deep in their hearts, that the writing is really that important.
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Oct 21, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Invasion is science fiction without much science or any real genre thrills. ... But setup has to be more clever and more empathetic than this, and the payoff has to be less anticlimactic and perplexing. I’m truly not sure if the 10th episode’s ending opens the door for a second season or if I care.
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The PlaylistOct 21, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It’s a show that is so consistently self-aware of its perceived importance as dramatic television, so shockingly humorless and flat in terms of character/plot, and so fragmented in its storytelling that viewers will just hope the aliens finally land to get these people to stop talking.
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Oct 21, 2021
Season 1 Review:
"Invasion" proceeds so incrementally across such a wide range of characters and their responses to extraterrestrial terrorism that you might well lose your way from week to week. Never mind your interest. ... Trevante's behavior is typical of both the writing and direction here, as he fumes, spewing vulgarities no one can hear, abusing the goat herder who treats his wounds and speaking English louder and louder, as if that would help.
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