Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The first episodes drew me in, and I stuck with it longer than should have (to the first episode in second series). It gets worse and worse. Don't get sucked in like I did! RUN AWAY! It becomes clear that this is geared for young adolescent males. It is a 15 year old boy's fantasy. A teen boy and his dad are the focus. They shoot guns, play war together, bond, never bathe, strike rugged poses, walk through a vaguely war-torn suburbia (war-torn for the most part is over-grown bushes and litter). The girls are hot. Both love-interests for the teen-boy are blonde. One is girl-next-door, the other is trashy. They may have smudges of dirt here and there, but their pants are skin-tight and they walk like models. The main teen is, of course, a star lacrosse player. Most of the first season takes place in a school building, a place every teen-boy would love to see shut down, then converted to a war headquarters so they could strut down the halls with an automatic weapon casually strapped to their chest. As in a teen-boy's fantasy, there isn't much realism. More like convenience-ism. SO many plot holes. Really, the aliens use earth ammunition in their advanced weapons? The high school biology lab is the hospital. It always has one or two patients at a time- usually the principal characters. The hot doctor in boots has no problem being grubby as she works on patients. They made one raid on a drug store and never seem to run out of medications after that. Others have noted how hundreds of people in "the resistance" hang out in open fields, highways, public buildings with lit fires and all kinds of activities, yet the aliens with their superior technology can't see them. One major piece of silliness that I haven't seen mentioned in reviews is how dependent the refugees/resistance is on gasoline-powered vehicles. The "scouts" use motorcycles, for example. Yeah, those are so good for moving around stealthily. The "army" is wedded to big trucks, and only seems to be able to attack the enemy if they can drive straight to them. Even if they were getting gas from abandoned gas stations, it would be a finite resource, and a weak spot in their tactics. Bicycles, people, bicycles! But, no big automobile/motorcycle product placement deals that way, I guess. The last thing is how "smiley face" it all is. Must be because of the intended family audience, but every time (and there are several times) where it comes down to the military authority apprehending a murderously bad human and you expect to see them lined up against the wall to be shot or hung from the nearest lamppost with a "alien collaborator" or "bandit" sign nailed to them, instead the head officer says "DON'T shoot them! Just let them go!" WHAT??