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War of the Worlds (2019)
Strong start ruined by annoying characters and bad writing
I really enjoyed the first three episodes of War of the Worlds. Gabriel Byrne and Léa Drucker, whose character Catherine reminded me of Jodie Foster in Contact, are doing a good job and the pace of the story was ok for me. I disliked Ty Tennant's character Tom and his overprotective mother played by Natasha Little from the very beginning, but luckily their screen time was not that dominant to ruin the experience. Unfortunately most of this changes with Episode 4 and gets quickly unbearable in Episode 5. The relationship drama between some of the main characters gets absolutely out of hand and was just boring and annoying to watch. On top of this the plot around the other group of characters including Catherine and Colonel Mokrani (Adel Bencherif) becomes absolutely unreliable and can only be blamed on bad writing.
I watched the fully (well)-synchronized German version and therefore I did not have to deal with subtitles at all.