EPISODE
SEASON
Falling Skies - Season 1
In an exciting and action atmosphere, this television series drama revolves around the struggles of Tom Mason, a history professor, who after the invasion of the earth by the aliens, becomes the leader of the troops, as they have to cooperate in order to manage to overcome that invasion and survive, against kidnapping his son by the aliens, the thing that annoys him and makes his worry, as he cares of her children more than anything else.
30 November 1979, French River, Nova Scotia, Canada
1 July 1984, Listowel, Ontario, Canada
14 June 1954, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
25 February 1979, Lawrenceville, Georgia, USA
7 September 1936, San Juan, Puerto Rico
20 October 1988, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
29 November 1952, Olean, New York, USA
4 January 1958, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
June 19, 2011
Despite the high stakes of the story and the frequent violence, the tone is placid and slightly monotonous, as if we were watching the Walton family at the end of the world.
June 19, 2011
For once, Spielberg and company got it right on the small screen.
June 19, 2011
Falling Skies generates its own excitement, very much worth the ride, like Lost and Jericho, to watch characters develop as they struggle under confusing and life-threatening circumstances.
June 19, 2011
There's something enjoyably retro about TNT's "Falling Skies," an old-school, B-grade sci-fi invasion series that's more reminiscent of the original 1980's "V" than the recently canceled ABC remake.
June 19, 2011
I lost count of the times I paused episodes to try to understand an inexplicable moment or to complain to my couchmate about a predictable development.
June 19, 2011
It has a solid Saturday-matinee tone, as the characters dart through the wrecked streets with dirt on their cheeks and rifles on their shoulders.
August 20, 2013
It at least made me want to know what happens next. If a postapocalypse can't do that, what's a postapocalypse for?
June 19, 2011
Falling Skies is looking like the season's best popcorn television.
June 19, 2011
Falling Skies' mix of compelling individuals helps to make its early use of formula less troublesome than it might have been.
June 19, 2011
In due time, it starts to take hold, telling its timeworn alien invasion tale in ways that might well pull you along.
