Invasion

I don't watch too many television shows; I mostly look at news or sports, or old Britcoms on PBS. But I have been watching "24" this year, and I'm fully immersed in "Lost". I'm also watching "Invasion", which follows "Lost". It's a freaky, conspiracy theory-driven drama which first started airing in September of last year.

So, here's the basic plot: a hurricane hits a central Florida town, people start acting strangely. Mariel Underlay (Kari Matchett), a physician, can now hold her breath underwater for many minutes, after disappearing the night of the storm. She's married to the town's sheriff, Tom Underlay (William Fichtner), who was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Everglades years ago, and seems to know a lot more than he's saying.

I like that this creepy story has been slowly unfolding and revealing its secrets over the course of the season. But there have been similar shows over the years. Two other somewhat similar series, "Surface" and "Threshold", premiered around the same time and faltered. The difference with "Invasion" is that it does have its moments of dark humor. This was part of the appeal of "The X-Files" and "Twin Peaks", and what helped to doom "Millennium". Hopefully, it will help save "Invasion".