The Tunnel

The Tunnel was an extremely exciting and intense episode with great performances from the British child actors. Nice to have real teens actually playing teenagers instead of actors in their twenties and sometimes in their 30s playing teenagers.

India Brown's performance was excellent as usual. And Paddy Holland was also very good.

I'm also really enjoying child actress, Rubby Siddle's performance. What a remarkable little actor.

It was nice to have an episode that focused solely on the plight of the UK children during the post apocalyptic alien invasion.

I really hope the UK kids will eventually meet more of the principal adult characters in this series.

I can't help but feel this show will inevitably go down as a waste of time, money, and effort and most importantly - potential.

Regardless of the sheer stupidity of the characters due to a plot that barely moves forward and sloppy writing, the characters themselves have depth and great potential. However, at the end of the day, you can't help but feel they just come out as raw and trivial and it's almost fully down to lazy writing and the fact they exist in a plot which takes 5 episodes to actually have something happen.

This is best demonstrated in the previous episode where things actually happened and it was actually entertaining. Characters ended up fulfilling their potential and utilised the whole season and a bit of character building where the plot actually progressing had been sacrificed. But no, we're back with another filler episode where you could've condensed the entire episode into 10 minutes worth of an episode.

Felt like a filler episode that was just meant to meet a deadline. The action taking place in France largely evidences some of the worst French I've ever heard in TV. Surely you could have cast people who know the language? Rough on all cut corners, in my opinion.

Closing, the narrative failed to introduce compelling twists, promote intricate character dynamics, or thought-provoking dilemmas that typically serve as the lifeblood of engaging storytelling. Instead, it trudged along a predictable path, leaving little room for surprise or genuine investment.

An enigma please - not just wasting time in a tunnel.

Episode is proof if it were ever needed that you should never make a movie with kid lead actors.

This episode is shockingly bad, no need to worry about the alien monsters, there would be plenty humans who would love to see this lot vanish in a mysterious incident!

Acting is borderline rubbish, storyline is something from Enid Blyton than an alien invasion sci-fi story.

Overall series premise isn't all bad, but the famous 5 (or 6 or whatever it is) kids add nothing to the story whatsoever beyond they are irritating beyond belief and they've been written in for tokenism.

I mean the young girl has specs which have zero prescription, which means there a prop but for what reason, there is no reason as far as I can see!

This show was a difficult watch. The child actors weren't very good, and their performances were generic-likely a result of how they're taught in drama school. American child actors are much better.

The show's logic was also flawed. When facing giant slugs that can eat you, you'd avoid them at all costs, not walk 22 miles through a narrow tunnel with nowhere to hide.

The characters also make silly, unimaginative choices. For example, they don't explore the hundreds of cars in the train for food and water, which are basic survival actions anyone would take.

Ultimately, the show would be better if it focused on the brilliant and beautiful Mitsuki. The other characters are boring.