This story first appeared in Trying!, a thoughtful, funny, wide-ranging daily newsletter featuring essays from the mind of Matt Gross. You can sign up for them here. Those were simple aliens for ...

What started as a normal house-sitting job escalated into a full-scale “alien invasion” in under 20 minutes. A fake emergency broadcast warned of a crash, the lights went out, and a staged meteor ...

It's always nice when a new TV show drops, and it does more than just entertain. Sometimes we need shows that demand we look deeper beneath the surface, and Apple TV's "Invasion" is one of them. When ...