#alien-invasion

#alien-invasion

For a task this difficult, you need someone whose pleasant blandness can sell the fact that billions of mind-melded Others are going to be slurping down their liquified neighbors and there's nothing the dozen or so conscious and unchanged people can do about it. You need someone whose energy is that of an enthusiastic golden retriever, whose aura is a turquoise blend of compassion and comprehensibility, and whose dimples are as pleasantly textured as warm focaccia.

It took no time at all for Pluribus to become an essential piece of Fall TV. After just four episodes, it's been crowned the buzziest show of the season, bringing back the sensation of watercooler television. Its weekly drops feel darn-near unmissable - and after the revelations and traumas unleashed in Episode 4, "Please, Carol," the next chapter of this alien invasion drama could be the most important thus far. It's certainly being positioned as such by Apple TV.

Sixty days ago The alien colonizers arrived on Earth, bringing guns, carriers, cannons - and the nanobot plague. The nanobots burrowed into our bodies through our spinal cords, roaming inside us, slowly eating us from the inside out. "These nanobots will torment you," the colonizers said, "until only one of you remains. Then they will stop." We understood - they wanted us to kill each other.

"War of the Worlds focuses on the computer screen of Homeland Security officer Will Radford as he monitors a huge network of surveillance videos to keep the country safe."

Ice Cube plays Will Radford, a Department of Homeland Security official who monitors an array of feeds for terrorist threats amidst rising alien chaos.

The first season focused on the initial stages of the titular alien invasion, portraying the events through the eyes of ordinary people around the world.

The trailer is a touch heavy-handed in its insistence that you understand this is all about our current surveillance state and corporate harvesting of our data.

In season 3, those perspectives collide for the first time, as the series' main characters are brought together to work as a team on a critical mission to infiltrate the alien mothership.