He is about to leave his wife and children, but the alien invasion throws a wrench in those plans. One is the jilted wife, who finds out her husband is sleeping with another woman whom he has impregnated. It teases out four stories among millions, and through the first half of the season, at least, it’s almost as if no one else in the world exists outside of these four groups. Dan Hamamura said to me that he’d heard it described as This Is Us with aliens, and I can sort of see that. It makes Invasion itself a decidedly slow burn, but for those who tune in more interested in stories about people than in stories about boom crash aliens, it’s a nice change of pace. If the houses in your neighborhood were suddenly destroyed, or if the bus you were riding crashed into a ravine, or if you were suddenly separated from your platoon, your first thought likely wouldn’t be, “Oh shit! Aliens!” If the means of transmitting and receiving information worldwide are hampered, that realization might not even dawn on you until you personally encountered the aliens yourself. They’d be as confused as anyone trying to figure out why certain events were happening. Strangely, that feels right: If aliens were invading mankind, and we picked four groups of people at random, it’s not likely that those groups would be the first to encounter aliens.
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We don’t even see aliens until more than midway through the series - hell, the word aliens is not even whispered for several episodes. In the end, there’s a reason why the series chooses the stories of these four groups, but throughout much of the series, their stories feel singular, detached from the rest of the world, even as the world’s events affect everyone equally. Tens of thousands of people are dying in Invasion, but the series remains determined - for a while, at least - to tell the stories of only four groups of people. That’s part of the appeal for me to the Apple TV+ alien invasion series, Invasion. Nearly 800,000 people have died in this pandemic, but those deaths do not make the events in our lives - cheating spouses, losing a best friend to cancer, the struggles of a child confronted by a bully - any less real, or less painful. In fact, because of the nature of the pandemic - because we were locked down, locked away from each other - our stories were even more singular. When the world shut down in March of 2020, it happened to all of us, but that didn’t stop us from having our own stories in the midst of a world event. So there you go: join a union, get your voice heard, meet Hollywood stars.Even when the entire world seems to be going to hell all at once, we are still mired in our own stories. In a demonstration of how far things have gone, Paris Hilton turned up at a BBC London picket line. Those who have decided enough is enough and have turned to strike action to finally make people listen. Public support is still behind train drivers, nurses, junior doctors, civil servants, journalists. I didn’t like the medical staff’s pay deal but at least it shows things are going in the right direction. It was good to see local radio staff, along with what looked like everyone else, on strike this week. She didn’t have the figures to back it up but I can kind of believe it. She even believes offending rates and the death of local news coverage are linked. If you have a question - or want to share your story - please get in touch by emailing so long ago, someone high up in the criminal justice system told me the death of local news coverage disenfranchises people – democracy feels more alien and authority figures less accountable.
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