https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/28/verity_stob_is_disgusted_of_hg_wells_time_gentlemen_please/

Stob Did you catch the recent TV version of The War of the Worlds?

Oh dear. HG Wells' beloved book was stuffed up royally. The adaptation had more incomprehensible flashes back and forth than a pair of AI lighthouses experimenting with optical TCP/IP. Nor did the dramatisers omit to burden their Edwardian characters with jarring, anachronistic right-on attitudes and concerns.