Rather than focusing on immediate explosions, the episode uses a haunting score by Max Richter to build a sense of "beautiful dread".
The tone is set immediately in S1E1 (“Last Day”), less by the cold open in Yemen and more by the credits sequence that follows it. TV Obsessive [S1E1] Last Day
A Beautiful Dread Pervades Invasion's Three Episode Premiere Rather than focusing on immediate explosions, the episode