Falling Skies

Over the course of three seasons, two of which I’ve had the privilege of writing about on a weekly basis, I’ve come…

Many times over the course of this third season, when I’ve railed against Falling Skies for wasting time or failing…

One of the earliest choices Falling Skies made was to begin its story in medias res, opting to focus on the…

If I had to describe my feelings about the third season of Falling Skies to date, I could easily sum them up in two…

Reading the comments from last week, it didn’t escape my attention that I was in the minority in my appreciation of “…

Of the varied character dynamics that have evolved over the last two and a half seasons of Falling Skies, my…

On a television show, few things are more annoying than when characters make stupid decisions. Part of it is because…

One of the amusing things about watching Falling Skies long-term is that after a while, you can make a game out of…

Let’s talk a little bit about cliffhangers, shall we? When a show uses a cliffhanger at the end of a season, it does…

At a certain point with any television show, there comes a moment where you have to acknowledge its flaws: flaws…

For over half of this season of Falling Skies, the members 2nd Mass have been fighting to get to Charleston.…

On the surface, a road trip always seems like a great idea. A few close friends in the car, a destination in sight,…

In every war, there’s always going to be a moment when your back is up against the wall and you don’t know what’s…

When watching any show with an ongoing narrative, the question of pacing is always important to how the story plays…

While Falling Skies has certainly been a better show over the course of this season, one of its central problems…

It’s a staple of post-apocalyptic fiction that when the world is destroyed, the first thing on everyone’s mind is…

One of the improvements made by Falling Skies’ second-season première involved moving away from a central location…

Network television was not kind to Steven Spielberg in recent months. In a year where the legendary director…

Falling Skies has been a schizophrenic show in its first season. If Syfy and Hallmark had a television baby, it…

Say this for Falling Skies: you’ve never seen a post-apocalypse this leisurely before. Sure, the entire series has…