![]() There’s also the soldier separated from his platoon, who doesn’t realize until several episodes into the series that his platoon was wiped out by aliens. The jilted wife is forced to go on the run with her children and the cheater, even if she now hates him, and even if he still seems more interested in getting back to his mistress than he does in enduring the end of the world with his family. He is about to leave his wife and children, but the alien invasion throws a wrench in those plans. One is the jilted wife, who finds out her husband is sleeping with another woman whom he has impregnated. It teases out four stories among millions, and through the first half of the season, at least, it’s almost as if no one else in the world exists outside of these four groups. Dan Hamamura said to me that he’d heard it described as This Is Us with aliens, and I can sort of see that. It makes Invasion itself a decidedly slow burn, but for those who tune in more interested in stories about people than in stories about boom crash aliens, it’s a nice change of pace. If the houses in your neighborhood were suddenly destroyed, or if the bus you were riding crashed into a ravine, or if you were suddenly separated from your platoon, your first thought likely wouldn’t be, “Oh shit! Aliens!” If the means of transmitting and receiving information worldwide are hampered, that realization might not even dawn on you until you personally encountered the aliens yourself. They’d be as confused as anyone trying to figure out why certain events were happening. ![]() Strangely, that feels right: If aliens were invading mankind, and we picked four groups of people at random, it’s not likely that those groups would be the first to encounter aliens. We don’t even see aliens until more than midway through the series - hell, the word aliens is not even whispered for several episodes. In the end, there’s a reason why the series chooses the stories of these four groups, but throughout much of the series, their stories feel singular, detached from the rest of the world, even as the world’s events affect everyone equally. Tens of thousands of people are dying in Invasion, but the series remains determined - for a while, at least - to tell the stories of only four groups of people. That’s part of the appeal for me to the Apple TV+ alien invasion series, Invasion. Nearly 800,000 people have died in this pandemic, but those deaths do not make the events in our lives - cheating spouses, losing a best friend to cancer, the struggles of a child confronted by a bully - any less real, or less painful. In fact, because of the nature of the pandemic - because we were locked down, locked away from each other - our stories were even more singular. When the world shut down in March of 2020, it happened to all of us, but that didn’t stop us from having our own stories in the midst of a world event. What are television's best alien shows? Vote up the shows about aliens you think are the best and see where the alien TV shows you love to watch rank.Even when the entire world seems to be going to hell all at once, we are still mired in our own stories. Other good shows about aliens featured here include Smallville, Star Trek: Voyager, and even Invader Zim. The X-Files followed FBI Agents Mulder and Scully as they investigated supernatural occurrences and debated the existence of extraterrestrial life. ALF is another good TV show about an alien living on Earth, this time in puppet form. John Lithgow, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt starred in the hit NBC series. What programs will you find on this list of top TV shows about aliens? The popular sitcom 3 rd Rock from the Sun centered around four extraterrestrial characters who were sent to Earth to observe human behavior. This is a list of the greatest alien TV shows including everything from Futurama to Doctor Who to Battlestar Galactica. The best TV shows about aliens feature otherworldly beings learning all they can about life on Earth - or possibly invading. Whether you call them extraterrestrials or Martians, alien TV shows are always entertaining.
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