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    Invasion S1E6: “Home Invasion” Is a Boring Horror Short

    The following contains spoilers for Invasion S1E6, “Home Invasion” At something like a conceptual level, I can almost see what Invasion S1E6 is going for. It’s a home invasion story, as its title makes clear, and a straightforward one at that. After a first half of the season that started to make me think our […] More

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    Invasion S1E5: “Going Home” in a World Made Strange

    The following contains spoilers for Invasion S1E5, “Going Home” Increasingly I think part of the whole premise of Invasion is that our protagonists are on the periphery. The action isn’t simply moving slowly—it’s fundamentally happening elsewhere. Thus we see in S1E5 the empty store shelves when Aneesha tries to go shopping, along with the soldiers […] More

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    A Beautiful Dread Pervades Invasion’s Three Episode Premiere

    The following contains spoilers for the premiere of Invasion on Apple TV+: S1E1 (“Last Day”), S1E2 (“Crash”), and S1E3 (“Orion”) For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. (Romans 8:18) It’s as though someone took all the tropes […] More