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Despite giving us the interesting plot of its first episode, "Invasion" has failed to solve any problems that have made the series boring so far.

This is our position after the fifth episode of the invasion:

This week’s episodes are very different from previous episodes in several key areas:

As always, the review section of this review will contain a lot of spoilers.

At the beginning of this episode, Anissa and everyone else were shocked when the president announced the news. When she and the other doctors were transported by ambulance to the next town, one of them began to discuss how the recent attack destroyed a school. This made Aneesha think of her children, which in turn made her ask them to turn around. When the driver refused, she got out of the car and started running back to them.

After hiking for several miles, she met a group of soldiers who were ambushed by aliens and took out their internal organs. She tried to use their armored transport vehicle, but was unable to start the vehicle. With a little bit of fear, Anissa took a weapon from a dead soldier, and then continued to sprint back to her family.

When she reached the house of Patrick and Kelly, the sun had already set and the storm had begun to roll in. When no one answered the door, she kicked a window and climbed in. When the house was silent, except for a whistling teapot, it was soon discovered that something went wrong.

Aneesha's frantic search for her family was interrupted because she found that one of the walls was covered with a strange black substance. Things became more creepy/horrible when she tripped over Patrick and Kelly's dog, who was also gutted out and covered in black mucus.

When something broke into the house and started making terrible smoke monster-like noises, she hardly had time to panic about the discovery. In response, Aneesha completely became a victim of terror in the 80s, abandoned her gun and fled upstairs instead of leaving the house.

Fortunately, she ran into a closet connected to the attic, and Patrick pulled her to a temporary safe place, and the rumbling of this creature made the whole house tremble.

When Patrick warned her to stay on the beam in the attic and lowered her voice, Anissa was relieved to see her children running from her father to her arms.

The warm reunion was interrupted by creatures that moved below them again. Ahmed tried to assure his children and Kelly that the aliens might want water instead of them. Kelly retorted keenly that when one of them was stubbornly lurking in the house, his hypothesis didn't make much sense. Then she began to panic, comparing the arrival of the aliens to the prophecies in the apocalypse, and then announced that she could not breathe due to insufficient air in the attic.

Ahmed tried to calm Kelly down, which caused her to change her panic/fear of him and his family. When she asked them to leave, Anisa agreed, but Patrick stopped her. When Aneesha insisted and Patrick pointed his shotgun at her, his seemingly friendly gesture became a threat. As far as he is concerned, trying to withdraw may pull the creatures towards all of them, requiring everyone to stay where they are.

After pointing out that his shotgun would be much louder than the noise they made when they ran away quietly, she tried to leave with her child. There was a scuffle that caused Sarah to fall from the attic floor.

When Sarah started crying, Anissa kicked a bigger hole in the floor and then fell down to save her. Ahmed finally did something good and tried to keep up, but was stopped by Patrick. Patrick took him and Luke and pointed the gun at him. When the creature started looking for them, Aneesha took Sarah into her arms and hid behind the door.

*Side note: Unless you count the giant object that looks like Starro at the end of episode 2, this is by far our best look at one of the aliens up close. From the brief glimpse we got in episode 4, I describe them as "dog-sized versions of those sticking wall crawling toys" that still feels relevant.

When the house started to shake, Kelly stepped back to the soft part of the attic floor and one of her legs fell off. Patrick ran to help his wife, but could not rescue her until she was brutally pushed down and killed. Ahmed used a terrible distraction to summon Luke and escape from the attic.

Aneesha and Sarah fled downstairs together, hiding behind the basement door. While holding/comforting her daughter, she noticed that the back of the girl's head was bleeding from the fall. Then she opened the door and saw Luke and Ahmed. She quietly warned that nearby creatures had now entered the restaurant.

Aneesha tried to let her husband meet them in the basement, but he silently begged her to follow him outside. Although this seems to be one of the rare situations in which Ahmed appears on the right, the door he wants to leave is barricaded, which means that the exit from the area will make a lot of noise. After he refused to heed Aneesha's whispered warning about the matter, she persuaded Luke to hide behind the basement door with her and Sarah, which annoyed her husband.

Although there were good reasons to let him die, Aneesha reopened the door to see if she could help Ahmed. She found that the alien was approaching his location quietly, but couldn't warn her husband before the creature pounced on him.

Anisa grabbed the gun she had dropped before, closed the basement door, and took the children downstairs. Then she opened one of the funnel windows and took the children outside. She also managed to leave before the creatures reached downstairs to kill them.

She and the children also rushed to Bryan's car, and he was also running outside. Instead of asking them to stop, he threw the key to Aneesha and told her to start. She lets Luke and Sarah enter the car and activates it, while Brian reloads his shotgun. Before she was forced to decide whether to help the old man, the creature jumped out and attacked him.

Aneesha screamed, reversed the car, hit a tree, and stuck the wheel in the wet mud. When she tried to let the vehicle go free, the alien jumped on the hood and broke the windshield. Aneesha screamed for her children to climb to the back of the car, and then aimed the gun at the creature.

When this proved completely invalid, she threw the gun and then any objects she could find nearby. She eventually caught the strange black rock that her son had been hiding greedily (but also thought that he should stay in the car) and stabbed the alien with it. Predictably, this will cause the creature to die.

After pushing the alien shell out of the car, Aneesha was about to leave, and a seriously injured Ahmed came out of the house. Although he did a lot of terrible things, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she saw that her husband was still alive. She ran out to help him in the car, and he gratefully held his son's hand.

With her broken family alive and overcoming many difficulties, Aneesha pulled the vehicle out of the mud and drove them away.

Is Ahmed’s inexplicable survival and Luke Rock’s revelation a ridiculous man-made design? Yes.

Have we learned important information about what the aliens are doing or the outcome of the invasion? Do not.

However, even considering these factors, "Family Invasion" is by far the strongest episode in the series. This is a recognized low threshold, but this is the first one I like to watch from start to finish. A single POV might help, but it's just a fun, scary, and very well executed horror story. The performance and production value is very high (as usual), but all of this is integrated into a compact narrative, with a solid beginning, middle and end.

Unfortunately, this effect occurs entirely in a vacuum. As far as the rest of the invasion is concerned, although we were the closest, we found almost nothing.

First of all, I really want to know what Brian, Kelly and Aneesha & Co. did to provoke aliens. This must be bad, because one of their teams went from causing a catastrophe across planets (and tearing apart the space shuttle) to tracking humans in their rural homes like a slimy Michael Meyers. At least when one of them killed Sheriff Tyson, it was because he had been digging around in their crop circle.

After six episodes, we did not have a deeper understanding of what the aliens are doing or how they operate. We also seem to be on the cusp of Ahmed's redemption arc, which is definitely not what I expected. However, I am more afraid of the return of dramas that are conducive to the atmosphere, and throwing deep questions on the wall when telling a good story.

We may return to the multi-perspective structure next week, let us hope that the invasion begins to finally push its overall narrative forward.

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