Epix ‘War of the Worlds’ Would Make H.G. Turn Over In His Grave
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This iteration of War of the Worlds is not anything H.G. Wells wrote about, on the contrary, it is NOTHING like the Wells’ classic, even though it is called a ‘reimagining’ of Wells’ story, and it takes a lot of imagining. Even the Tom Cruise big-screen version (2005) was relatively close in the basic plot, and it was fun and exciting to boot.
The TV version of WW, currently showing on Epix, is none of those things. It is, as I mentioned, not even a little bit faithful to the original story, it’s not much fun, and it’s boring, although there are a few minutes of excitement thrown in, but very few.
If you are a fan of soapbox drama, you will find plenty of it WW, and that’s precisely what makes the show so tedious. Why I’ve stuck with it through 4 seasons is a testament to my love of all things H.G. Wells, and I keep hoping the show will break out of its boring storytelling and pokey dialogue into something vaguely resembling cool aliens. While there are aliens, they look like dogs, metallic dogs, that are apparently driven by some sort of sentient brain.
The show is only passively interested in the invasion itself, which is a huge disappointment to us SciFi fans. Through the four episodes I screened, it seems to morph into a sci-fi version of The Walking Dead in the sense that the monstrous inciting incident is an excuse to tell individual human stories, although TWD seemed to make it work.
On WW, a mother named Sarah Gresham (Sarah Gresham) tries to stay strong for her young son Tom (Ty Tennant) and blind daughter Emily (Daisy Edgar-Jones). Byrne’s Ward attempts to track down his missing son with his ex-wife, Helen (Elizabeth McGovern). A criminal, Kariem (Bayo Gbadamosi), only alive because of a robbery gone wrong, tries for a second chance in the end-times.
As to casting, Gabriel Byrne, and Elizabeth McGovern (think Downton Abbey) are poorly cast, and that shows when they are acting, or trying to act. One cannot shake the idea of the Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey and that’s a huge distraction.
In conclusion, this take on War of the Worlds isn’t the most heart-pumping by any stretch of the imagination, but it does take the material to places it’s never been, and hopefully will never go again. The traditional “war” between worlds has always been more like a slaughter but this version of the story is less about fighting back against an enemy than it is just trying to salvage something worth saving from the wreckage. I couldn’t really find anything.
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The series gets the Triple B rating.
Basically Boring Bullsh*t. Wasted so much time waiting for show to get better.
Pure slop. I only watched because I love WW. Even the one with C Thomas Howell and Kid n Play was much better. Would never pay for EPIX because of this slop. I hope they read this.
What a load of rubbish expecting an ending but No
What a load of rubbish expecting an ending of some form not even that, Go back to making Childrens films or Pantomime Oh No he did Oh yes he did???????????😭😭😭😭😭😭
So slow and repetitive. I’m thinking they’re trying to pull a “Lost” on us but there’s no progression. Boring.
It seems that the writers, producers, and directors of today just missed the classes when they were supposed to learned those particular skills. I guess when you remake a really great story for the third or fourth time you feel like you have to do it differently than the original instead of trying to tell the same story better. There are somethings that should just be left along. Like Mike I liked Independence Day, but then they had to do a sequel that really sucked.
I was hyped when the first episode came up but it gets more boring with each passing episode. I cannot watch the entire episode in one sitting, I always end up in my phone or doing something else. I’m highly disappointed!
Terrible. Stopped watching it after the second episode. The disappointment I think. Was hoping for more.
Bloody awful show. Keep watching it hoping it will get better but it doesn’t.
There is no more creativity left in Hollywood and we have these soulless zombie versions of older, usually better movies. The radio show was better than any of them and the book was best, I think. Some were painfully laughable as with “independence day” where our hero waves an Apple notebook at the fleet of impossibly advanced spacecraft and made it crash. A computer virus you see – just like Well’s microbes. See what they did there? A virus is a virus, you see and it works on alien computers because a computer is a computer, isn’t it?
LOL! I actually liked Independence Day, but not on an intellectual level 🙂
I insist on science in my science fiction, unless it’s tongue in cheek like the first Star Wars. Honestly they’re able to do the impossible by traversing interstelar space but to destroy mankind they have to squat on top of cities to destroy them? We can do better than that. Have they no missiles? No Death star? They use an Apple operating system? Jeff Goldblum a scientist? Wells would sue them.