War of the Worlds (2020)

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Season 1
  • Network: MGM+
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 16, 2020
Season #: 3, 2, 1
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4.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 14
  3. Negative: 6 out of 14

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  1. hgwells
    Apr 6, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Huge sci-fi fan here. Wanted to like this series. Some of it is good. Like parts of episode 1 and ... hmm. Plodding, zero alien interaction unless you like the Boston Dynamics built alien dogs/marksmen. Characters well developed. Some I was glad to see killed off. Sorry but I was. Episode 8 is an absolute disappointment. Dunno if there's a season 2 coming since we are currently under attack by a tiny alien species. But if there is, I will probably watch it just to see if it still sucks.… Expand

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Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. Decider
    Reviewed by: Joel Keller
    Feb 18, 2020
    70
    This miniseries isn’t quite the War Of The Worlds you’re familiar with, but it does seem to be looking like a fine apocalyptic survival story that at least has an ending, unlike some others that we’ve been watching on other cable channels for the past ten years.
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  2. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Brian Tallerico
    Feb 14, 2020
    40
    The approach by Howard Overman (“Misfits”) is so joyless and even cruel that it becomes a dirge. ... The problem with monotony is it becomes impossible to care. Characters become disposable; their plight becomes superficial through the repetition. There’s a difference between something that’s intense and something that’s just brutally bleak. It almost feels like this “War” isn’t worth winning.
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  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Joshua Alston
    Feb 13, 2020
    67
    Between the laconic pace and the intense focus on characters, Worlds is an alien invasion story that doesn’t spend much time fretting about its aliens beyond the characters whose jobs involve fretting about things. It’s much more interested in how people bond and persevere through shared trauma and survival instinct. ... But like any slow burn, Worlds reveals its charms over time, once the audience has shed any expectation of Overman following Wells’ blueprint.
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