Invasion will continue for a second season on Apple TV+. The news does not come as a huge surprise as that streamer has renewed almost all of its originals for at least a second year. But it was looking uncertain for a while because there had been no word on the show’s fate. The streamer has typically made its renewal announcements prior to a show’s premiere or shortly after. But Invasion had released nine of its ten first season episodes with no word on its fate. And the show has not placed in the Nielsen Streaming Top 10 for original series up to this point. But apparently Apple TV+ did decide to move forward and the announcement comes right before its season finale which drops on Friday. Series co-creator Simon Kinberg had the following to say about the renewal:
I’m profoundly grateful to Apple for being so supportive every step of the way, and trusting us to make a deeply human, emotional alien-invasion story. And most of all I’m thankful to our amazing fans, without whom we wouldn’t have this opportunity to continue the invasion. I’m super excited about what we’re planning for season two, expanding our universe in the most intimate and epic ways.
The second season will likely debut in Fall of 2022.
Invasion chronicles an alien attack on Earth and the story is told from the perspective of multiple characters from different locations across the planet. It stars Golshifteh Farahani, Shamier Anderson, Shioli Kutsuna, Firas Nassar, Billy Barratt, and Sam Niel.
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Clearly Apple TV is trying to not alienate their viewers.
I thought the first series was rather drab and predictable with a few pockets of interest. There were too many primary character stories that held no interest for me. Personally, I was interested in the US serviceman’s journey back to ‘civilization’, off and on interested in the lady doctor, not interested in the kid drama much until they got back to London, and completely uninterested in seeing angry Japanese lgbt girl’s drama.