Wow, this is a much, much better show than I expected and that it had to be.

I’d say it’s the most underrated show on TV in the past few years.

I wasn’t expecting much at all. I thought it’d be standard alien invasion fare. Perhaps worse. But it’s so much more than that. For a start, it’s morally complex. Someone has read their history of Vichy France, obviously. In occupied France, the resistance was seen as getting innocent people killed unnecessarily. Most people weren’t members and disdained their actions. The same in this show; the “resistance” is seen as a bunch of malcontents with no hope of affecting any sort of change against the implacable and vast power of the occupation force. Rather, they get themselves killed and then the entire community punished.

Also, the “aliens” are never seen. They never appear (at least so far). All the actions and all the insults against dignity and freedom are committed by fellow humans.

I am not sure it’s a great show. Yet. But it’s a damn good show with quality writing, well-drawn and complex characters, and moral ambiguity, but not of the gooey, boring, unrealistic “prestige TV” brand so beloved by overeducated liberals.

Highly recommended.