Great trick, slapping a sci-fi label on a cluttered hodgepodge of mundane life stories and hope the viewers won't recognize the deception too quickly. Seriously, what is this? Every episode is 95% anemic exposition, and only each last scene finally reveals a science fiction-y cliffhanger. Every single time. In-between those brief moments, there's a metric ton of banal daytime drama, that introduces a framework of tedious characters, plus lots of annoying children. There's basically every overused trope from the past 20-30 years in here, and none of them is told with any originality: there's marital infidelity, fear of becoming old, schoolyard bullying, parental homophobia, offhand racism, everything *except* the invasion that gives the series its title. Of course protagonists should be given a background, but not if that's all we get. And why do they all need to be so incurably uninteresting and stereotypical anyway? With this kind of budget, Apple could have given a serious shot to writers who truly understand science fiction, instead of these wannabe novelists. What a waste.

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