In This Together

The quality does not improve in this rather tiresome and annoying episode in which the British government being colonial only dilutes the conflict rather than intensifying it.

They continue to be none too subtle as a hand on the womb (seriously?) is used to convey pregnancy.

It's hard to know whom I dislike more: the irritatingly cantankerous people or the officious government officials. By all means keep an eye on strange events but this is just not the story I wanted to be told and feels over all like filler.

Ultimately too much is shown when it should have been implied.

And I really, really hate it when they super-impose the date. It's just such lazy writing...convey a time lapse through intelligent writing and direction. As if to be especially insulting they actually specify "two weeks since the black-out" or however long it was. Pick one, dude, or ideally none at all. They didn't even call it "the day out" like in the book. I mentioned in my review for the first episode I'd be "that guy".

I just feel annoyed and strung along by the whole thing.

With months passing after the Midwich blackout, the strange occurrence gets stranger, as all the age-appropriate women in the affected area are found to be pregnant, and more ominously, tests show that no male parental DNA is present in their fetuses, only paternal.

The issue of government control is addressed with the invoking of the government Secrets Act, and for this story the issue of abortion is turned on its head. In this case, the individual decision to keep one's baby rather than terminate the pregnancy is the brave one, it since the question of how the baby came to be conceived is unknown. An eerie scene in hospital where three women who have chosen termination are somehow controlled (by the baby or some outside force), preventing them from signing.

Episode ends with the premature birth fo the babies, after about even months gestation, all nearly simultaneously. These two episodes have taken the length of a feature film to unspool, as opposed to the movies, John Carpenter's 1995 remake for example, where the story advances quickly, with only half an hour of screen time till the babies are born.