B+
Falling Skies: “Brazil”
Over the course of three seasons, two of which I’ve had the privilege of writing about on a weekly basis, I’ve come to…
Falling Skies
B
Falling Skies: “Journey To Xibalba”
Many times over the course of this third season, when I’ve railed against Falling Skies for wasting time or failing to…
B-
Falling Skies: “Strange Brew”
One of the earliest choices Falling Skies made was to begin its story in medias res, opting to focus on the…
B-
Falling Skies: “The Pickett Line”
If I had to describe my feelings about the third season of Falling Skies to date, I could easily sum them up in two…
C+
Falling Skies: “Be Silent And Come Out”
Reading the comments from last week, it didn’t escape my attention that I was in the minority in my appreciation of “Sea…
B+
Falling Skies: “Search And Recovery”
Of the varied character dynamics that have evolved over the last two and a half seasons of Falling Skies, my personal…
B
Falling Skies: “At All Costs”
On a television show, few things are more annoying than when characters make stupid decisions. Part of it is because…
B-
Falling Skies: “Badlands”
One of the amusing things about watching Falling Skies long-term is that after a while, you can make a game out of…
Falling Skies: “On Thin Ice”/“Collateral Damage”
Let’s talk a little bit about cliffhangers, shall we? When a show uses a cliffhanger at the end of a season, it does so…
B-
Falling Skies: “A More Perfect Union”
At a certain point with any television show, there comes a moment where you have to acknowledge its flaws: flaws that…
B+
Falling Skies: “The Price Of Greatness”
For over half of this season of Falling Skies, the members 2nd Mass have been fighting to get to Charleston. Ostensibly…
B-
Falling Skies: “Death March”
On the surface, a road trip always seems like a great idea. A few close friends in the car, a destination in sight, a…
A-
Falling Skies: “Molon Labe”
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 going…
B
Falling Skies: “Homecoming”
When watching any show with an ongoing narrative, the question of pacing is always important to how the story plays…
C+
Falling Skies: “Love And Other Acts Of Courage”
While Falling Skies has certainly been a better show over the course of this season, one of its central problems…
B+
Falling Skies: “Young Bloods”
It’s a staple of post-apocalyptic fiction that when the world is destroyed, the first thing on everyone’s mind is…
B-
Falling Skies: “Compass”
One of the improvements made by Falling Skies’ second-season première involved moving away from a central location and…
Falling Skies: “Worlds Apart”/“Shall We Gather At The River”
Network television was not kind to Steven Spielberg in recent months. In a year where the legendary director produced…
Falling Skies: "Mutiny"/"Eight Hours"
Falling Skies has been a schizophrenic show in its first season. If Syfy and Hallmark had a television baby, it would…
C+
Falling Skies: "What Hides Beneath"
Say this for Falling Skies: you’ve never seen a post-apocalypse this leisurely before. Sure, the entire series has…