The new fall season offers three series that put the entire Earth in peril from the Great Unknown. The premiere offers a truckload of unanswered questions but suggests that the threat is a long time in the making and, as in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," involves aliens accomplishing their nefarious task by commandeering unwitting humans. Nonetheless, hurricanes are a part of the region's normal weather, just like tornadoes in the Midwest and nor'easters in New England.

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