The War of the Worlds (BBC 2019)

I had been looking forward to this enormously but, based on episode 1, something seems to have gone awfully wrong somewhere and I'm not sure exactly what it is. It all seems terribly flat, somehow. Peter Harness has written some terrific scripts, director Craig Viveiros' direction on And Then There Were None was absolutely brilliant, and there's a capable cast. But the story never grips, what should be huge dramatic moments just don't land. Someone who knows more about film production than I do might have better insights but I suspect major production woes (which would explain the long delay in it getting to air) as the editing seems off and the cgi is nothing to write home about (unless: "Mum, I just watched some unimpressive cgi"). The music is also very poor and I notice it's the first major credit for composer Russ Davies which seems to be either a big risk or the cheap option, as if there was corner cutting in post.