It is unbelievable how this show got greenlighted for a 2nd season given that no budget seems to have been available for any cgi or special effects beyond stop motion robot dogs, not even an attempt to have the so called aliens look "alien", whoever came up with the idea to make the aliens different from humans by adding a black dot tattoo on their wrist should be given an award for the stupidest idea ever conceived.
As far as reimaginings of H G Wells "war of the worlds" goes this probably isn't the worst but its certainly the most drab, bland & boring to be broadcast.
This show is nothing more than groups of people running around killing each other, the tattooed wrist people against the non tattooed wrist people.
Any show using this story as a basis, done well, was always going to be an expensive project, but this show takes everything that's exciting, thrilling & imaginative from that story & flushes it straight down the crapper & then adds pointless boring & unlikeable characters in silly pointless situations just so they can show scenes of people being killed.
This is probably some of the worst plotting & story writing seen on TV for decades.
So many disgruntled viewers have remarked how this isn't "war of the worlds", unfortunately I'm afraid it is, striped of everything that made that story so exciting & thrilling, it's not supposed to be an apocalyptic ending of the world its supposed to be a war, mankind in a desperate war against alien invaders, giant death machines roaming the countryside & city's disintegrating swathes of survivors have been replaced by a handful of slow ponderous robot dogs, even the ironic way the aliens were defeated has been replaced by a scientist creating a virus to kill the aliens.
And after an entire season & 4 episodes into the 2nd season there is still no explanation as to why the aliens attacked the earth & killed billions of people or how they were able to live on Mars or how they're able to live now on earth, it's just pure codswallop.
I'm pretty sure just about any primary school student could come up with a better story than this garbage.