该剧讲述一次外星人的攻击让地球上的人类几乎消灭殆尽，只有少数人类还在为生存而战。艾米丽(埃德加-琼斯饰)发现她能与外星人产生奇怪的个人联系。在第二季中，入侵者是人类的可能性弄得所有人晕头转向，等待他们的是一场夺回地球的紧张战斗。霍华德·欧尔曼(《梅林传奇》)操刀剧本。该 剧将于6月6日登陆EPIX。
　　Set-in present-day Europe, War of the Worlds is a multi-faceted series, based on the story by H.G. Wells. When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits for further contact with baited breath. They do not have to wait long. Within days, mankind is all but wiped out; just pockets of humanity are left in an eerily deserted world.
　　As alien ships appear in the sky, the survivors ask a burning question – who are these attackers and why are they hell-bent on our destruction? This is a story of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances - but they are more than just victims in a brutal war. For, as we will come to realize, the aliens’ savage attack on earth is not arbitrary: its seeds are being sown before our very eyes.