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Invasion: Breakthrough (2023)
Done it - watched both seasons - and ...
... Gosh, i liked the first season, but barely stuck through the second. A few positives reviews kept me going, especially during the meaningless quest motifs (meaningless because they took so long, with dialog and directing that didn't earn the time commitment) in the various set dramas. The scenes with the kids endlessly hunting for "Casp". The mother and her two kids forever in the Madonna mode of the sacrificing female. In the first season there was an edge - the mom/doctor character had been betrayed and had complicated feelings. In the second season, she was just full-on, nonstop mother with no other aspects to the character. This is boring, episode after episode. Still, in the last two episodes a couple of the characters are written with at least a more complex dynamic - sacrifice, for example. The ending suggests a season three, but I have to wonder if the audience is there for that. And what's with Casp - is he on the side of humanity after all?
Invasion (2021)
The first season kept me in, the second season - not so much
I really loved the first season and so looked forward to the second one. But what a waste. The kid who hates his mother and has one deeply annoying emotional register for the entire series - I cringe when he's on the screen, as well as his cliched ever-suffering mom - just no! Enough. The Mitsuki character is the only one with whom I'm now engaged, other than the actor Shamier Anderson's soldier. Anderson acted his socks off in the first season. But he had a role. But where is he now? And don't get me going on the stereotype hipper than hip tech boss, who knows what's best for everyone - omg, what were they thinking? It's as if they took all the weak aspects of the first season and focused on those at the expense of everything that was truly riveting in the first season - its visual beauty and the mystery of love and friendship in a time of horror and the unknown. What a shame. I'll keep watching it until the end, but my expectations are completely blown.
Wolf (2023)
Without giving away too much
Wild! There is one particular twist/turn - in the first episode - that is worth the price of admission. I couldn't stop thinking about it. I can't stop thinking about it. But then I haven't read the book. There are certainly things to object to - maybe some bits are OTT and sometimes the dialog is formulaic - but I will keep watching to see how the plot and direction develop. Also, the actors who play the "police" baddies - Iwon Rheon Sacha Dhawan - are superb. I don't quite understand why viewers are being so critical of the series; it's not as if I was expecting Tolstoy. I encourage people to give this series a chance.