Waiting Game

Co-creator Simon Kinberg says Invasion's third season will explore the enemies within

- WORDS: TARA BENNETT

FOR TWO SEASONS OF Invasion, the Apple TV+ sci-fi series created by Simon Kinberg (The Martian, X-Men: Days Of Future Past) and David Weil (Hunters, Citadel), humanity grappled with the imminent arrival of hostile aliens coming to Earth. Around the globe, we followed key figures who work together to figure out how to prevent the destruction of our world as they glean as much as they can about the mothership in orbit, and how to infiltrate it.

In the season two cliffhanger, the global counterstrike against the alien powers is facilitated by Mitsuki Yamato (Shioli Kutsuna), who exerts her mental powers to open a portal into the mothership which allows Trevante Cole (Shamier Anderson) and Caspar Morrow (Billy Barratt) to strike a blow against the aliens from within. At the start of season three, audiences get to see the outcome of their efforts, which has had a massive impact on the planet, the aliens and the ship that was threatening Earth.

Kinberg tells Red Alert that he's particularly excited that this season allows them to bring their disparate characters together for a unified story against their common foe. That happens through a time jump that is set to shake up the narrative in some shocking ways.

"I got really inspired by the way that