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 4×9, “Til Death Do Us Part”

You guys, we’re going to the moon!  Well, not quite yet, but Falling Skies is now hellbent on taking our heroes to the next level, as the location of the Espheni beacon has been revealed.  Sure, it may be a…

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…

The Hundred-Foot Journey Review

Richard C. Morais’ novel The Hundred-Foot Journey is dominated by three personalities. The first is “Papa,” the bull-headed patriarch of the Haji family who flee religious violence in Mumbai to open an Indian restaurant in the quaint French village of…

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,…