In this, our year 2021, any TV show that continues to write scenes that basically amount to “American soldiers point guns at pleading brown people whose country they have invaded, whose language is not given subtitles, but who are intended to make us as viewers feel afraid” really feels purposefully ignorant. I had worried that her prominence in marketing materials for Invasion would be a kind of bait and switch, but no! Farahani actually has a lot to do! But on the flip side, do I think this second episode “Crash” is handling its “brown people: terrorists :: Earthlings : aliens” SAT analogy with any particular grace or nuance? Not really. For now, we’re still setting up characters and exploring relationships, and I must admit that I am pleasantly surprised with how much focus Golshifteh Farahani’s Aneesha is getting. Those are all big-picture questions that Invasion has not yet explicitly addressed. Are they surrounding our planet? Choking us off from the rest of the galaxy? And if so, why?
In trying to comfort his kids, Ahmed promises Luke and Sarah they’ll “be fine.” “We are safe here together,” he says, and I am going to take a wild swing here and assume that’s not a guarantee! It doesn’t seem like the entire world has put it together yet, but something is attacking Earth and setting up shop in various corners of the globe: in New York, Afghanistan (continued sigh at this series’ use of MENA people for narrative props), and the U.K., because why else are we spending time with tween Casper Morrow (Billy Barratt)? And as we saw from the attack on that Japanese space shuttle and the far-too-quick exit of Rinko Kikuchi from this show, something might be patrolling the outside of Earth, too.
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