Humanity faces seemingly benevolent alien Visitors whose true intentions slowly reveal a gritty, tense, and epic struggle.
Suspenseful. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Tubi (free).
No surprises for a TV-14: some innuendo or implied sex and mild language.
Rated TV-14, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 10.
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A re-imagining of the 1980s miniseries about the world's first encounter with an alien race in which the aliens call themselves The Visitors, and have a seemingly friendly agenda that may or may not be a cover for something more malevolent.
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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