Intruders
Intruders
TV-MA | 23 August 2014 (USA)
SEASON & EPISODES
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    cjonesas

    Please allow me not to comment and review on the series itself, but a specific acting. I will leave the whole review of the series to more expert persons.What is having my mind blown is the acting skills and talents of Millie Bobby Brown, aged around 10.5 at the time. My sincere congratulations to this young lady who portrays a very difficult personality on the show and pulls it perfectly leaving viewers mesmerized and in shock. I would think this young lady's talents are at par with best of the best celebrities in the industry for the last 100 years. May she shine and flourish each day more and more.If you have doubts, just watch and be in awe!

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    lucafgamberini

    I really don't know where to start, so to be brief (this won't be brief at all) I'll say that it is not worth any time. Actually here's a fun example of why not to watch it (BTW this is a tiny conversation spoiler): There's a bit where the main character finds his wife in a room by herself listening to jazz and he's all like, "Hey Amy, you never listen to jazz, what has gotten into you?" and then he acts all surprised and sad, I mean maybe his wife wanted to listen to jazz, maybe she felt enclosed in their horrid relationship and thought " I know what will make my husband wretch, me listening to jazz!". I felt that throughout the whole series that I should continue to watch as it might get better, and yes I do admit that I was slightly hooked, but only because it had potential (that was not used). The acting was a load of b*ll*cks: there was that little annoying girl who was mean't to be bad-ass but totally was not, she could not act for sh*t and certainly was not cut out to be the menacing character that was proposed to her. Then there is the only famous guy (John Simm) who is a good actor but for some reason can't pretend to be someone else for a 3.5 million worth series. Now the one person who I can happily settle for being a good actor was that weird man who was a mix between Lou Reed and Johnny cash (James Frain) but all he had to do was look cool and hold a gun and shoot people. This a completely different topic to acting, but there's a bit where some guy is like, "I built a ghost machine" in a dumb voice and it makes me want to laugh my head off and shoot my foot at his poor acting skills. I know I'm no better actor, but y'know i paid for this sh*t so I should get my £12.50 per months worth, or i could have just bought a Kebab which would be far more enjoyable, worth my time and better at acting. I could go on, and I will. Next up is the terrible story line (WHAT WERE THEY THINKING). I would love to sink my teeth into what could have the potential to be and epic and awesome story. That would have been the real bee's knees but NO! All I get is some confusing story that still after 9 episodes (the whole freaking series) I don't completely understand! Maybe what the producers were going for was a puzzle that the audience could piece together with time but none of it makes any sense. So much could be resolved with guns and death. I can't be f*cked to go on any longer but you get the just and I'm p**s*d off. So then to conclude, don't watch it, tell your wife to not watch it, tell your friends, family, cat, if you see it on you T.V. then run a good long bath, lie in it and drop a toaster in it. I really insist you do as much as you can to avoid this waste of a show. Do you know what could have been done with the 3.5 mil dollars? Feed a family? Cure Ebola? Educate the poor? Buy me some more time to replace those seven hours wasted? Anyway i'll leave you with a piece of advise, watch Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, not really related but none the less a great film.

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    l_rawjalaurence

    Made by BBC America, INTRUDERS is a supernatural thriller centering on a secret society Qui Reverti, which has advocated that immortality can be achieved by possessing another person's life. They believe that each member of the society has two souls; prior to the death one of the members, the soul is activated and invades someone else.The narrative is a familiar one involving the basic quest involving Richard Shepherd (James Frain) and Jack Whalen (John Simm) to discover what has happened to the people around them. The story also involves a ten-year-old girl Madison O'Donnell (Millie Bobby Brown) who appears to have two discrete sides to her nature - one childish, the other distinctly adult.Shot in deliberately faded colors by Philip Linzey, INTRUDERS creates a dystopian world stretching across several American cities - Seattle, Reno being two of them - drawing our attention to the extent of the intruders' power. The scenario is strongly reminiscent of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956): apparently "normal" human beings turn out to be very different once their souls have been possessed by another person. The implication is clear - individuals must remain vigilant so as to protect themselves against possible corruption. Whether they can accomplish that task is another issue entirely.In the mid-Fifties, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS was a thriller produced by the Cold War situation: many Americans feared that their nation would be "corrupted" by communism - hence the emphasis on Red-baiting that persisted from late in the previous decade to the early Sixties. INTRUDERS takes the same scenario and updates it, warning viewers about the possible "menace" of foreign inspired terrorism, that might encourage hitherto well-educated young Americans to veer from the path of democracy and pursue more drastic, if not violent, methods of achieving their aims. Once again we are exhorted to beware of "the enemy within" - by trying to protect ourselves, as well as rooting out those whom we believe have already been corrupted.INTRUDERS is a fascinating, if structurally complicated piece; its plot-development is slow, forcing viewers to identify the links between its various strands by watching each episode. The links are allusive rather than overtly emphasized; it is up to us to make the connections. Hence the structure reinforces the theme; it is only by paying close attention to the story that we can acquire the vigilance that will prevent us from being invaded by the intruders.

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    mikegmc90

    I can't SE myself wanting to view all the episodes I get the feeling that it is going to be repetitive with 10 minutes of the next episode going over the previous episode and the last 5 minutes of the episode will be all the action .I would be really surprised if this a hit for the BBC ,that is why they showed 2 episodes back to back they realized they would probably loose a large percent of the viewers after the first episode . The plot of the first episode was to be honest boring with the second episode not Much better ,if you think long periods of sitting in a car and staring at a mobile phone Is gripping viewing then I can't see it getting much better and the gentlemen pretending To be an FBI agent going around shooting every body with immunity is a bit insulting to American law enforcement agencies !

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