Once again something based on or inspired by the Legendary book by HG Wells turns out to be a boring trudge through a tick-box melodrama with no aliens.
Been looking forward to this for a while now but 5 hours in and we have been introduced to a wealth of dull characters and apart from a glimpse of tripodial alien or mode of transport we have not had any real invasion.
There is nothing remotely interesting about these people that warrants the first 5 hour long episodes.
5 minutes each would be too long.
We get the usual woke boxes ticked off. Strong taking charge women, gay characters. Minorities sorted, not very nice men dominated by the strong woman characters.
Sam Neill's religiously driven deluded retiring sheriff among the best character but he is either dead or has been kidnapped by aliens in E1.
The Iraq scenes were mildly interesting and afford us some sense of something not quite right.
The Japanese have become a little more interesting but the lead characters spend a lot of times just staring meaningfully into space , probably because the writers are trying to fill out the episode.
The Iranian family melodrama is among the worst bit with a dastardly husband cheating on his boring wife and his dull kids. After what seems a tornado has wiped out their street on Long Island NY and the neighbours start treating them as if it is their fault, as their house is untouched, the wife decides it is time to get the hell out.
The English school trip was utter nonsense. So one teacher can jump into a bus with his class and drive hundreds of miles (as there is nothing like that ravine anywhere near the UK Capital.) Then drive at speed on a dirt road hitting a pot hole that makes the class jerk then over a cliff after looking behind him still driving at speed down a dirt road. Nobody could possibly survive such a fall but amazingly everybody did and uninjured except for teacher. A trip like that would require 2 teachers at least and parental consent but we find one kid says his mum does not know where he is. What sort of school trip is that. Sounds more like a kidnapping.
Then we see TV telling us of a worldwide terrorist attack claiming the lives of thousands. But no aliens as yet.
I will keep watching as I did with the Fox WOTW garbage, the BBC garbage and several other recent awful attempts to invade Earth. But when will we get an adaptation of WOTW that actually shows the War. If this turns out to be humans from the future then that's it for me.
I gave it 2# but if it picks up I will rethink my rating.
I did after EP4 and gave it 1# as it was pitiful to watch.
Been looking forward to this for a while now but 5 hours in and we have been introduced to a wealth of dull characters and apart from a glimpse of tripodial alien or mode of transport we have not had any real invasion.
There is nothing remotely interesting about these people that warrants the first 5 hour long episodes.
5 minutes each would be too long.
We get the usual woke boxes ticked off. Strong taking charge women, gay characters. Minorities sorted, not very nice men dominated by the strong woman characters.
Sam Neill's religiously driven deluded retiring sheriff among the best character but he is either dead or has been kidnapped by aliens in E1.
The Iraq scenes were mildly interesting and afford us some sense of something not quite right.
The Japanese have become a little more interesting but the lead characters spend a lot of times just staring meaningfully into space , probably because the writers are trying to fill out the episode.
The Iranian family melodrama is among the worst bit with a dastardly husband cheating on his boring wife and his dull kids. After what seems a tornado has wiped out their street on Long Island NY and the neighbours start treating them as if it is their fault, as their house is untouched, the wife decides it is time to get the hell out.
The English school trip was utter nonsense. So one teacher can jump into a bus with his class and drive hundreds of miles (as there is nothing like that ravine anywhere near the UK Capital.) Then drive at speed on a dirt road hitting a pot hole that makes the class jerk then over a cliff after looking behind him still driving at speed down a dirt road. Nobody could possibly survive such a fall but amazingly everybody did and uninjured except for teacher. A trip like that would require 2 teachers at least and parental consent but we find one kid says his mum does not know where he is. What sort of school trip is that. Sounds more like a kidnapping.
Then we see TV telling us of a worldwide terrorist attack claiming the lives of thousands. But no aliens as yet.
I will keep watching as I did with the Fox WOTW garbage, the BBC garbage and several other recent awful attempts to invade Earth. But when will we get an adaptation of WOTW that actually shows the War. If this turns out to be humans from the future then that's it for me.
I gave it 2# but if it picks up I will rethink my rating.
I did after EP4 and gave it 1# as it was pitiful to watch.