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Basic Facts:

Episodes: 22
Runtime: 42 min.
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Premiered: 2005

Format:

Series

Genres:

Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Created By:

Shaun Cassidy

Actors:

Aisha Hinds, Alexis Dziena, Ariel Gade, Eddie Cibrian, Evan Peters, Kari Matchett, Lisa Sheridan, Tyler Labine, William Fichtner

Made In:

USA

Premiered at:

ABC

I’m not going again into the can­cel­la­tion poli­cies TV com­pa­nies have, but can­cel­ing Inva­sion was a big, big mis­take. But, at least they gave advanced warn­ing to cre­ators that man­aged to wrap some of the story lines by the end of the only sea­son. Still, it ends with cliffhanger and was meant to con­tinue on CW, but they decided not to pick it up. Series is cre­ated by Shaun Cas­sidy, and aired on ABC in 2005 and 2006.

Story

Inva­sion is set in small town in Florida after the dev­as­tat­ing hur­ri­cane, that brought some­thing strange and out of this world, crea­tures that live in the water. Dur­ing first sev­eral episodes we don’t see much of them, but the story will uncover what’s hap­pen­ing with the crea­tures and will show that they have been around for a long time. But, the things will cul­mi­nate fast, and will lead to great finale of the sea­son that will for sure leave you want­ing more.

Inva­sion Cast

With some episodes, story can be slow paced, but it’s com­plex, and has many char­ac­ters, and we need as much back sto­ries as we can get. From time to time, series uses flash­backs to fill the gaps and all that was done great and helped to build the mys­tery sur­round­ing the yel­low creatures.

Cast

Cast is great. Start­ing with lit­tle girl Rose (played by Ariel Gade), and older Kira and Jesse (Alexis Dziena and Evan Peters) to truly amaz­ing actor William Ficht­ner in the main role of sher­iff Tom Under­lay, who is with­out a doubt main force dri­ving the series. Eddie Cib­rian is really good in the role of Russell. Kari Match­ett plays Dr. Mariel Under­lay, and she is Russell’s ex wife, and they have two kids together. Russell’s preg­nant wife Larkin Groves (beau­ti­ful Lisa Sheri­dan) is jour­nal­ist, and her brother Dave (Tyler Labine, best known for his role in the series Reaper) is full of con­spir­acy the­o­ries and he is the first that starts to uncover what’s going on in the town and the truth behind the yel­low creatures.

A lot was done to develop main char­ac­ters dur­ing the first half of the sea­son, and they suc­ceeded in cre­at­ing believ­able and pas­sion­ate char­ac­ters that offer plenty for every­one, even if you don’t like sci­ence fiction.

Pro­duc­tion

Inva­sion looks really good, and it was intended to be another high bud­get series in the vain of Lost. And it started really great with 17 mil­lion view­ers fol­low­ing the sec­ond sea­son of Lost. But, ABC changed it sched­ule sev­eral times, and the rat­ings were falling. In the time of can­cel­la­tion, Inva­sion had between 6 and 10 mil­lion view­ers, but ABC still decided to axe it.

Con­clu­sion

Inva­sion is really great. It’s not just sci-​fi, it’s a drama and thriller, mys­tery and even hor­ror. At least, the only sea­son can be seen as a com­plete work that unfor­tu­nately ended too soon. Grab the DVD box set and watch it, and see for yourself.