Absolutely outrageous series. But I'll tell you how you can get a decent amount of fun out of it at the end of the review.
So, the main problem is that 90% of screen time is devoted not to fiction or action, but to the personal life of absolutely fabulous characters, including:
1) the rich and successful typical American financier Ahmed (who is too heterosexual and therefore weak, lying and insignificant)
2) his typical strong and independent American wife of roughly the same nationality
3) typical English strong and independent schoolgirl Jamila and her friend Kaspar
(4) two typical Japanese women of sexual orientation, typically young and brilliant - one astronaut, another scientist-supertechnologist, probably with a couple of degrees at least.
5) black military.
Did you see Sam Neal in the trailer? Forget it. His character is too simple and adequate for the series, so he did not last the first two episodes, being absolutely stupid and meaninglessly merged. And he's gone. Okay.
Did you see aliens in the trailer? Well, that's what you saw in the trailer, that's all. Literally all the fantastic scenes of the first five episodes are in the trailer. Here, in general, the invasion is only the background for the unfolding of themes of racism, oppression of LGBT people and other problems of the “agenda”. The president’s statement on the eve of the invasion: “We all need to first realize that we are all one race, human!” Yes, the issue of race is the most relevant in the context of an alien attack.
We are literally constantly fueled by the atmosphere of agonizing anticipation, forced to wait for something in part just the invasion, but at the same time continue to feed the cheating cowardly Ahmed, a brilliant girl, yearning for her sex friend - an astronaut, quarrels of schoolchildren ... And it's not going anywhere. Literally. Here you can skip as many episodes as you want - you will not lose anything. You turn on the series two episodes later and you will see a nasha still sobbing "Oh...." Oh, my Hinata..., an Arab woman accusing Ahmed, a black dude with a rifle who goes somewhere and quarrels with schoolchildren.
On the plus side:
1) goes well in the background. It’s impossible to miss meaning, so it’s easy to understand what happens when you focus your attention. God, you don't just know what you're going to see.
2) Sam Neal. He is good, although the role is not worked out, superficial. When it disappears from the screen, you can turn off the series, in principle, if you care about the characters.
3) A girl playing a Japanese genius of gay orientation. She plays well and is very beautiful. But she's been playing the same thing all season, so... Well, that's clean, look at it.
(4) In the ninth series, a line of aliens and invasions begins to appear. Something starts to move a little bit. The series is great even, I would say. Only for her I gave the series a three, not a two.
Now, a recipe for pleasure. I highly recommend heeding this recommendation of mine, which literally reanimates the series, making it out of the wretched - frankly good: watch the first two episodes of the season and immediately move on to the ninth. Everything else is garbage, throwing away which you absolutely will not miss. I'm not kidding, really, absolutely nothing. Include the ninth episode after the second, and the story will go on logically and understandably, interestingly, and you will save a lot of time without understanding the homosexual-racial-national-femenist problems of oppression.
Good luck.