This War Of The Worlds review contains spoilers.

War of the Worlds Episodes 1 and 2

No ‘The’. That’s how to distinguish this TV version of H.G. Wells’ alien invasion classic from the one that aired late last year. That wasThe War Of The Worlds, this one’s just War Of The Worlds – no definite article, more casual, more approachable, more modern.

A list of famous personalities we lost in 2020, including NBA superstar Kobe Bryant and WWE wrestler Rocky Johnson. Obsidian Entertainment, Virtuos Games en Private Division hebben vandaag bekendgemaakt dat The Outer Worlds op 6 maart 2020. The Outer Worlds is een futuristische rpg die zich op gekolonialiseerde planeten afspeelt.

Of course, as a French-US co-production, they might have gone with La War Of The Worlds, but that would just have been silly.

There is nothing silly about this opening double-bill. It’s deathly serious, a paranoid invasion thriller that rivals even the Six O’Clock news in its evocation of dread. It’s so sombre, in fact, that watching it is almost a relief, given our current situation. To finally see the world fall apart and any semblance of normality poof into the air as people drop dead on the streets feels like exactly what we’ve all been braced for. Finally! It’s arrived.

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Mario tennis power tour controls. What, exactly, has arrived is a question for French astronomer Dr Catherine Durrand (Léa Drucker). She’s the first one to spot an unusual signal surge from a distant planet, timed exactly to twelve months since it was first recorded – the amount of time, she hypotheses, it would take for an extra-terrestrial intelligence to complete a full scan of Earth. That’s right, those alien bastards have been up there for a year, photocopying all our stuff and planning their move.

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