The season two opener hasn’t lost its apocalyptic bleakness – the rotting corpse-strewn streets, bullets to the heads of teenagers, and the survivor with his “people just want to believe things will get better, it doesn’t mean they will” philosophy, is proof of that.
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They’d been drawn in by a title that promised pew-pew heat rays and waving-tendril Martians, and so were disappointed when presented with a series of beautifully composed insignificance-of-man-in-a-vast-landscape images, and with emotionally complicated characters for whom an alien invasion was the least of their worries. In season one, this show’s luxurious lack of hurry to arrive anywhere in particular tested some viewers’ patience. Whatever the answer, War of the Worlds will get there, and by the looks of this opener, moving at a faster pace than before. Perhaps the bullseye tattoo crowd have gone back in time to stop Gabriel Byrne’s character from releasing the biological weapon that will eventually turn us into them? The Invaders’ new ‘Kill Bill’ mission has such a strong 12 Monkeys whiff to it that time travel has to be a factor.
That’s one mystery cleared up, and a secondary one about how a bunch of genetically weakened humans psychically connected via a quantum web ended up invading Earth in massive spaceships is for season two to solve. The alien Emily met in the closing moments of season one wasn’t just humanoid, it was human. Their box-fresh stem cells were needed to grow replacements for the Invaders’ failed organs and cure the genetic weakness wiping out their species. This War of the Worlds review contains spoilers.
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