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Returning: War of the Worlds

Sci-fi series returns for third season later this month.

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Season 3 of War of the Worlds will premiere later this month at SBS on Demand.

All 8 episodes available to stream.

A linear broadcast is not yet scheduled on SBS due to FIFA World Cup events on the same date.

When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits for further contact with bated breath. They do not have to wait long.

Within days, mankind is all but wiped out by a devastating attack; pockets of humanity are left in an eerily deserted world.

As aliens hunt and kill those left alive, the survivors ask a burning question – who are these attackers and why are they hell-bent on our destruction? Emotional, cinematic and rooted in character, it is a unique marriage of human drama and the best science fiction.

This is a story of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances – but they are more than just victims in a brutal war. For, as we will come to realise, the aliens’ savage attack on earth is not arbitrary: its seeds are being sown before our very eyes.

Wednesday, 23 November 2022 on SBS On Demand

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  1. I was along for the ride in S1. I thought it was an interesting spin on a sci-fi classic, but S2 (and particularly the season final) pushed me over the edge of no longer caring. I won’t be returning.

    @ ekane: The season finished only last week in the UK, it’s actually a really prompt get from SBS.

  3. Whilst I don’t think the H.G. Wells title should have been used for this show, it’s a superbly tense piece of sci-fi television and I’ve been hanging out to see what happens next.

    1. It’s out of copyright so they can do what they want with the title. Here they used it for name recognition and as a red herring to disguise their Grandfather Paradox story. It’s still a lot better than the BBC adaption anyway.

      1. Yes, the Grandfather Paradox trope, a useful creative fallback for sci-fi screenplay writers, probably because using it can expand a limited original story arc and provide a few plot twists when required, especially if you want a TV series to continue on past season one. I thought that this Fox / Studio Canal version of War of the Worlds had found a suitable conclusion at the end of season two even if it left one or two story threads without a completely satisfying conclusion, sometimes it’s best to leave the viewer to form their own conclusions about the final chapter, as was the case with another three season alien invasion show that was cut in the bud, a show which for me probably had far better story development prospects, titled Colony.

        1. Still waiting on S3 for ‘Colony’-SBS keep repeating 1 and 2 with no sign of 3-as for Robodogs Attack, I gave up on it after the end of S1-best version of ‘War Of The Worlds’ remains the original 1950s film even after 70 odd years.

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