TV Review: TNT’s Falling Skies 4×11 & 4×12, “Space Oddity” and “Shoot the Moon”

So we have made it to the finale of this season.  While these last two episodes were not exactly a part 1 and 2-style pairing, both did feature plenty of time following characters in space, while the stuff on the…

TV Review: TNT’s Falling Skies 4×8, “A Thing With Feathers”

Hey there, apologies for the lateness of this review, I got caught up in a skitter battle of my own in San Francisco this weekend.  That said, this will likely be a shorter write-up than normal anyway, as there was…

TV Review: TNT’s Falling Skies 4×7, “Saturday Night Massacre”

After a couple of episodes focusing more on the characters and building up the tension around the Chinatown setup, this week’s episode of Falling Skies definitely lived up to its title, “Saturday Night Massacre.”  It should be a credit to…

TV Review: TNT’s Falling Skies 4×6, “Door Number Three”

For me, the best part about having all of the main characters back together again revolves around my notes.  Rather than having to divide up the page of notes I have been taking on Falling Skies every week, I can…

TV Review: TNT’s Falling Skies 4×5, “Mind Wars”

“Mind Wars” is an appropriately on-the-nose title for a very on-the-nose episode, in terms of the messages it wants to get across.  While we are now down to only three main storylines, I cannot say this was a stellar episode,…

TV Review: TNT’s Falling Skies 4×3, “Exodus”

There are certain movies that most types of people can get behind:  bank robbery movies and prison escape movies.  It is funny to realize this, given that bank robbers and those escaping from prisons can be seen as bad guys,…

TV Review: TNT’s Falling Skies 4×2, “The Eye”

In last week’s write up for the season four premiere episode of Falling Skies, “Ghosts in the Machine,” I described this new season as a semi-reboot, as we had lots of changes to focus on, with all of our characters…