Episode #1.8
- Episode aired Nov 18, 2019
- 47m
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6.6/10
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In desperation, the survivors try to bury their dead, somehow fight back and finally locate an enemy vessel, but many questions remain unanswered.In desperation, the survivors try to bury their dead, somehow fight back and finally locate an enemy vessel, but many questions remain unanswered.In desperation, the survivors try to bury their dead, somehow fight back and finally locate an enemy vessel, but many questions remain unanswered.
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- TriviaJonathan, Chloe and Sascha go to Amiens on their way to England, but after a relatively short walk they end up on the airport of Charleville Mezieres (24.26), which is more than 200km to the East of Amiens.
- GoofsThe dog tags that were pulled from the fallen soldiers by the Colonel, were pulled in their entirety, together with the ball chain. However, French dog tags are supposed to be broken in half along the perforations, with one half being left with the fallen soldier attached via the ball chain and the lower half being taken by the survivors.
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I approached this series with a fair bit of scepticism, memories of that horrible BBC adaptation are still fresh in my mind, but this did have Howard Overman as its creator and I've enjoyed "Misfits", "Crazyhead" and "Futureman" in recent years. Whilst not without its flaws, this Anglo/French production was decent enough for me to get all the way through.
The earth suffers a massive attack that kills 95% of the population in a single moment. The only survivors are those lucky, or prepared enough to have been encased in metal or rock at the time. These include Bill Ward (Gabriel Byrne) who managed to save his ex-wife Helen (Elizabeth McGovern). Scientist Catherine Durand (Lea Drucker) who was in the alps with a small outfit from the French army, refugee Kariem (Bayo Gbadamosi) who was in the back of a lorry and Sarah Gresham (Natasha Little), who was in the underground with her son Tom (Ty Tennant) and blind daughter Emily (Daisy Edgar-Jones). As each try to make their way to some form of safety, or back to their families, they find that they are being hunted.
The first thing that has to be made clear is that, despite the title, this is not really an adaptation of the novel. Apart from the premise of an alien invasion, the plot, setting, location, time period and characters are all different. Indeed, I'd echo the notion that I believe some of the production team have had, that the title works against the show as it purports to be something that it isn't.
Away from that aspect, I made it through the series, perhaps more out of admiration and intrigue rather than genuine enjoyment. It's a dark series, children are killed, pregnant women are killed, and this is after the initial attack leaves millions rotting in the streets. The stalking aliens then take the form of metalic dog like robots that reminded me of the ones from that episode of "Black Mirror"- it's a nice way of keeping the budget down as it minimises actual destruction and focuses on human casualties, but it does make the encounters very similar. There are some excellent "28 Days Later" like scenes of London and some other locations around France where they managed to close off the streets to the public. The performances are pretty good, there is some layered aspects to the story but ultimately, like most reviewers, I found that the season didn't quite hit the right trade-off between character development and plot movement. It also didn't really give us any answers to the various questions that it's set up.
The earth suffers a massive attack that kills 95% of the population in a single moment. The only survivors are those lucky, or prepared enough to have been encased in metal or rock at the time. These include Bill Ward (Gabriel Byrne) who managed to save his ex-wife Helen (Elizabeth McGovern). Scientist Catherine Durand (Lea Drucker) who was in the alps with a small outfit from the French army, refugee Kariem (Bayo Gbadamosi) who was in the back of a lorry and Sarah Gresham (Natasha Little), who was in the underground with her son Tom (Ty Tennant) and blind daughter Emily (Daisy Edgar-Jones). As each try to make their way to some form of safety, or back to their families, they find that they are being hunted.
The first thing that has to be made clear is that, despite the title, this is not really an adaptation of the novel. Apart from the premise of an alien invasion, the plot, setting, location, time period and characters are all different. Indeed, I'd echo the notion that I believe some of the production team have had, that the title works against the show as it purports to be something that it isn't.
Away from that aspect, I made it through the series, perhaps more out of admiration and intrigue rather than genuine enjoyment. It's a dark series, children are killed, pregnant women are killed, and this is after the initial attack leaves millions rotting in the streets. The stalking aliens then take the form of metalic dog like robots that reminded me of the ones from that episode of "Black Mirror"- it's a nice way of keeping the budget down as it minimises actual destruction and focuses on human casualties, but it does make the encounters very similar. There are some excellent "28 Days Later" like scenes of London and some other locations around France where they managed to close off the streets to the public. The performances are pretty good, there is some layered aspects to the story but ultimately, like most reviewers, I found that the season didn't quite hit the right trade-off between character development and plot movement. It also didn't really give us any answers to the various questions that it's set up.
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